North Dakota Preps

The Schwab wrote:I'm kind of surprised no one has mentioned this. I was at the Shiloh vs. divide county game on Saturday in Bismarck. There was a player injured from DC ( I hope he is ok because that was one of the scariest hits I've seen live ). There were 2 things about this situation that really made me nervous and by the end of the situation made me down right angry. 1st: I was always under the impression that a High school football game in North Dakota had to have an ambulance present ( there wasn't one at this game and took 15 minutes to get there ) and 2: once the ambulance got there it wasn't allowed to drive on the field ( the young man had an apparent neck injury that appeared to be serious ). Maybe I am over thinking this but it appeared to be a clear case of negligence.

Flip wrote:I know some private schools struggle make ends meet, but I don't think Shiloh is one of those schools. Maybe they can find some donations so they can have one at the semifinal game.

Run4Fun2009 wrote:

The Schwab wrote:I'm kind of surprised no one has mentioned this. I was at the Shiloh vs. divide county game on Saturday in Bismarck. There was a player injured from DC ( I hope he is ok because that was one of the scariest hits I've seen live ). There were 2 things about this situation that really made me nervous and by the end of the situation made me down right angry. 1st: I was always under the impression that a High school football game in North Dakota had to have an ambulance present ( there wasn't one at this game and took 15 minutes to get there ) and 2: once the ambulance got there it wasn't allowed to drive on the field ( the young man had an apparent neck injury that appeared to be serious ). Maybe I am over thinking this but it appeared to be a clear case of negligence.

Hope he's okay too...

You are not required to have an ambulance on site (however many smaller towns/cities tend to have one there).

Run4Fun2009 wrote:You would think that in a large town/city you could have one on standby...but sometimes that's not always the case. I know at Oak Grove (Fargo) they don't have one at the game...but the north-side hospital is 1/2 mile away...so the wait time wouldn't be too long.

Flip wrote:

Run4Fun2009 wrote:You would think that in a large town/city you could have one on standby...but sometimes that's not always the case. I know at Oak Grove (Fargo) they don't have one at the game...but the north-side hospital is 1/2 mile away...so the wait time wouldn't be too long.

That makes sense I had never thought of that. In my HS days (late 90s) we had an ambulance at our home games and the hospital was right across the street. The school I'm at now has one at it's home games and the nearest hospital is 15 miles away.