We all know how crucial it is for our doctors and emergency crews to have burn safety training, today, dozens of our Coastal Empire health care workers volunteered to learn all they could from the experts at the Burn Center in Augusta and the Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation.  Using real people as victims, NEWS 3'S Tristan Tully found out how real their training actually was.

They're calling it Advanced Burn Life Safety Management Class.  Set up before the Imperial Sugar explosion, these men and women are going through an all day class to be able to successfully treat burn victims.

Don Williams, Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation:
"The importance is unlimited as far as being able to provide the treatment to the patients in this particular area that emergency personnel will respond to."

The students, consisting of doctors, nurses and EMT staff spent the day learning how to evaluate the patients.  They had volunteers get done up in burn victim make-up to make the hands on learning experience as real as it could be.

Tim Allen, Garden City Fireman and EMT:
"We get a better understanding of what each person's role and responsibilities are and what problems they encounter versus what we encounter.  That helps us all get a better understanding of what each person encounters."

Allen is one of the folks who volunteered their day to learn how to better treat burn victims.  And for him, the Imperial Sugar blast was one of the reasons he came out.

"In light of recent events, being able to help... There's nothing worse than being able to get on a scene and not being able to do the job that you came there to do.  This helps, you know, in being able to do the job."

The Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation is having a week long summer camp for burn injury children.  If you know a child who has been injured by a fire and would be interested in the camp, it is going to be May 24th - 31st
   
For more information, give the Burn Foundation a call at 404-320-62-23.