I Have Not Yet Digested the Event
MDA EMT at the Afula station, Dor Keinan, was stationed on the night of the celebration in Meron when he received the call - to arrive urgently at the scene of the incident "I arrived at the scene and saw a lot of resuscitations, injured children and shouting. In front of my eyes were eight unconscious civilians and here I realized that this was an unusual incident," Keinan recalls.
"I acted according to the procedure, calmly and without stopping. I treated the injured and the first one I treated was a 17-year-old boy who fought for his life. We worked like a moving film, if I stopped I would break. The hardest part was that I counted each and every body, in order to give a situation report to the MDA dispatch center."
On the size of the incident and the tragedy, he added: "This is a different kind of event because of the size of the place, the density and the number of injured. The access was very limited and the terrain conditions were difficult. Even now, a few days later, I'm not entirely sure I digested. I still could not stop and think about what happened there on Friday night. On Saturday, I was already on duty at the dispatch center, because we must continue."
