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TRAINING SCHEDULE
2/17/2008 Rescuers hone their Ice Rescue Skills
Imagine that you've decided to take advantage of a gorgeous winter day
to go ice-skating on a frozen lake, when without warning the ice begins
to groan and crack beneath your feet. Now what?
That's exactly the kind of scenario that rescuers from Northeast Search and Rescue and Pocono Search and Rescue were training to deal with on Saturday. They spent the afternoon on a partially frozen Wigwam Lake in BStroud Township practicing their ice rescue skills. Rescuers wearing water-tight suits swam around and clawed their way across thin ice to rescue a hapless ice fisherman all in the name of preparedness. According to Bruce Barton, Chief of NESAR, this winter's back and forth temperature changes has left the condition of the area's ice uncertain to say the least. He offered some advice for anyone caught in a bad situation on thin ice. "If you start hearing the ice crack, lay down and spread out your arms and legs to distribute your weight across a larger area of ice, then roll away from the crack towards the shoreline". He also added that children should always be supervised by an adult when ice skating.
By Keith R. Stevenson/Pocono
Record
Be sure to check out video of the training session on the Pocono Records
website at: On
Thin Ice Video Also
see the photos at: Ice
Rescue Training
1/12/2008 Civil Air Patrol Drill-Quakertown Airport:
"Early this morning the Civil Air Patrol invited emergency response teams
to a mock search and rescue mission. The units brushed up on their rescue
strategies by land, air and K-9. As WFMZ's Dwayne Parker tells us, the
big lesson at runthrough was teamwork.
These rescuers are not leaving one branch unturned.We're looking for a
lost hunter. He was over at Knocks State Park and he was last seen on
Thursday, on January 11th. Nockamixon State Park was were the subject
was last scene. We're going to move our troops to that location. .. 379er,
this is mission base over, ...click. T.J. It happens year after year,
you have hunters that go out who think they're prepared for the elements,
and Murphy's law usually kicks and accident happen. They're also searching
by air.. We have both ground teams and the Air Search and Rescue dogs,
you know, we're called periodically for ground searches like this.
But this is only a drill. What we have is a training exercise today with
different search and rescue teams throughout the eastern part of the State.
Members of nearby rescue teams showed up early at the Quakertown Airport
to take part in the mock rescue conducted by the Civil Air Patrol. Major
Dave Hege says these encounters allow the groups to practice together
in non- emergency situations. Allows us to check the inner operability
with our two-way radios and also our team structure. Major Hege believes
there's a fundamental lesson that all the rescues take from this runthrough
The whole key is to train and to work together as one functional team.
And to try to save everyone from hunters to skiers to whomever else finds
themselves in need of a search team".
Dwayne Parker, 69 News.
See
a video of this event on 69 news' website.
The counties that Pocono SAR serves and the people in the various local
communities will ALL benefit greatly from this training.
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