One of the key characteristics that defines a "wilderness" location, apart from the 1 hour away from definitive medial care, centers on the lack of available resources and the necessity to improvise. Though field teams and expeditions may have some first aid / rescue gear with them, in emergency situations there is very seldom a surplus...

All of us at Sierra Rescue know how difficult it can be to travel for professional training. So, to make training even easier, we travel to you! Yes, you heard us right; even though we’re a California based rescue training company, we’ve taught in several other states including Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Oregon and South Dakota....

Do you work or play in the great outdoors? Are you prepared to respond to an accident or emergency that you might encounter? Whether you’re hiking, biking, climbing or involved with water sports, you owe it to yourself to have some level of outdoor medical training or wilderness training. Here are a few options offered...

Anyone who has taken a Wilderness First Aid or Wilderness First Responder course from us has had a maxi pad stuck on to their head as a great improvised pressure bandage to stop arterial bleeding.  Then Quick Clot and Celox came along and we raved about it. Don't get us wrong we are not saying...

We just did another set of Wilderness First Aid/First Aid and CPR courses for the USFS. This is our 6th year doing trainings for the Quincy, Chester and Susanville crews.  It started out as a training for just the owl crews and this year I think we had more crews than ever represented.  The timber,...