Hospitals stretched to the limit

IT was more like a scene from an episode of ER than one from a real-life hospital in a small college town.

“Nobody had ever seen anything like this before,” chief executive for Montgomery Regional Hospital Scott Hill said. “You can never adequately prepare for this level of violence.”

On a day where too many died at the scene, many more were taken, injured and bleeding, to the hospital. It was a process hindered by the weather. High winds prevented the use of helicopters to move patients, Mr Hill said.