[JshWright]

They in no way had adequate resources to handle that event. Not even close. A hundred of those patients would have qualified as a trauma code on a "normal" day, and would have had the dedicated attention of a dozen people during their initial arrival and stabilization. In this case they were lucky if they got the undivided attention of a single person.

They made do with what they had (very efficient, and very effectively), but the scope of the incident vastly outsized the scope of the available resources.

Your description of triage is great. The algorithm (based on a fair amount of research) is one part of maximizing that utility (it doesn't stand in the way of accomplishing that).