swiftwater rescue
Spring cleaning doesn’t only apply to your house and garage. It also means taking a look at your boating and rescue gear to see how it survived the winter. While some of you...
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A set of Purcell Prusiks is one of the handiest tools available to the rescuer. It has multiple uses, the primary one being to serve as an ascending/descending means...
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As those of you who have taken a Wilderness First Aid class with Sierra Rescue know, we really emphasize the more subtle signs and symptoms of heart attacks; because this is the...
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Our second set of classes back in Yosemite National Park was just as good as the first round. Weather once again cooperated, and we had great water levels for an SRT-1 / SRT-A combo...
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