There were three triage centers, and the students came in waves.

"We were told they used our place for a triage center," she said.

A triage center treats more than 100 patients each day.

It was also a triage center, although there were no wounded to treat.

By then our triage center had moved closer to ground zero and the search was on for survivors.

Rescue workers also smashed some doors, to set up a triage center that got little use.

The greatest single clue: no patients in all those emergency triage centers.

"The Federation doctor has set up a triage center in the old public shelter," he reported.

On September 11, 2001, the building's courtyard was used as a triage center.

The trucks brought the patients to the company's medical triage center at the Superdome.