Bellingham Comments from Digital Recorder - EISs for the Proposed ...

GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. II
COURT REPORTER: BETH DRUMMOND PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012
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1 Please state your name for the record.
2 THE SPEAKER: Hello. My name is Steve Harvey.
3 I'm a student at Western Washington University studying
4 environmental science.
5 Over a month ago, my mother and a friend were in
6 a moped accident that left her lying in a ditch bleeding
7 internally. By the time the ambulance arrived -- by the
8 time the ambulance brought her to the hospital, she had lost
9 3/5ths of her blood. The doctor said if she'd arrived 20
10 minutes later she would have been dead.
11 In this scenario, a longer ambulance response
12 time equaled increased probability of death.
13 The equation of increased response time equals
14 higher probability of not receiving treatment needed on
15 time, can be applied to many emergency medical response
16 cases.
17 In the EIS, I ask for a study to determine if
18 there will be a decreased ability to provide effective
19 emergency response times due to the increased train traffic.
20 This study could include, but not limited to,
21 mapping out all the areas between the coal trains origin and
22 -- and the proposed terminal site, where emergency response
23 vehicles have to wait for a train to cross, then find the
24 population of people who live in these areas.
25 Using 18 and 24 mile-and-a-half-long trains a day