County gets dozens of 'bleeding kits' to prepare for worst-case scenarios

EVERETT — Federal efforts to better prepare the public for mass shootings and other mass casualty incidents has brought funding for new “bleeding kits” to Snohomish County.

Through a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant of $230,000, King County secured the kits and is distributing them to several local emergency management agencies, including Snohomish County. Along with Seattle and Bellevue, Pierce County also received some.

The program is called “Stop the Bleed” and kits include a tourniquet, gauze, sheers, survival blanket and an instruction card. They also include a different type of gauze that specifically helps clot the blood, slowing the bleeding.

Snohomish County readiness program manager Jarrod Dibble said he took a Stop the Bleed training course five or six years ago.

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