• A safe place to store the equipment and supplies.
• A rapid method of transporting the equipment and supplies to the incident.
• No special truck needed to pull the trailer.
• Organization of equipment and supplies for easy distributions.
• Airlift capabilities on every unit.
• Standardization for Mutual Aid Partners. 

 The Mass Casualty Trailers product line is designed exclusively for (MCI) disasters and mass casualties rather than use items designed for other applications.  They were developed after intensive research in disaster preparedness through disaster conferences and drills staged by major fire departments since 1985.  The first goal was to solve the problem of where to store and how to transport the equipment and supplies to the incident site.  Another objective was to organize and speed up the medical aid being rendered.  It was noted that mass casualty disaster drills took from 45 minutes to hours for the back up medical supplies and equipment to arrive at the incident site.  The reason was that the supplies were stored in a building somewhere.  They had to find the keys to the warehouse and the truck, find someone authorized to drive the truck and load it.  The next problem was when the supplies arrived at the scene.  The boxes were unorganized and personnel had to hunt for what they needed.  There was a continual running from the patient to the supply boxes and back to the patient.  It most cases the medic would make 4 or 5 trips to the supply boxes per patient, wasting a lot of time.  The reason that the medic ran back and forth to the supply boxes was that standard trauma kits are so compartmentalized that that they make it very hard to find what is needed.  In a disaster where you will probably have mutual aid, it is very important to standardize as much of the equipment and supplies as possible.  Another goal was to eliminate as much decision making as possible.  Every decision that a medic has to make tends to add to confusion. Specially designed MCI trailers are the answer because they could be stored away from the building, trees, and power lines so that they do not become part of the disaster.  They could be built to be water, dust and rodent proof to protect the equipment and supplies.  The tendency was to get as big of a Wells Cargo trailer as you could.  The problem is that to get what you need without unloading the trailer; you had to build shelves into it and lose 2/3rds of the storage space.  It would also require a very big truck to pull it and would be hard to maneuver at an (MCI) incident site. These smaller, compact trailers utilize 100% of the storage space.  They are designed with large doors on both sides of the trailer.  When opened, you have access to everything in the main compartment.  There is a front compartment that has doors on both sides for access and ALS equipment or generators and lights can be stored in that compartment.  At the rear of the MCI trailer, there is a door that gives you access to the space underneath the main compartment.  That compartment is where the backboards are stored or anything that is up to 8" in length. These trailers can be pulled by any 1/2 ton pickup, SUV or Van and is water, dust and rodent proof.  Because of where we place the axle, it can safely be pulled at any speed without fear of whipping.  In addition, we build in lift line hooks so that it can be air lifted.  The trailers come in either steel frame and aluminum skin or all aluminum.