VANCOUVER, WA (KPTV) – What was just meant to be a jaunt around Lacamas Lake for a couple of 14-year-old boys turned out to be a dramatic, high-angle water rescue.  Camas Fire crews responded to a report of a person stuck in the water and possibly clinging to a log in Lacamas Lake Sunday evening, where the spring snow melt has the water running high and cold, and swirling with a lot of debris.   Upon arrival they learned a teenage boy had slid off the trail and wound up waist-deep in water, unable to get out.  His friend stayed with him and was also in the water, clinging to some...

Fischer Rescue Squad’s high angle rope team rescued a teen Tuesday afternoon at High Falls Park.  Fischer Rescue Squad Capt. Tim Williams said a group of people was at the falls, and one of them slipped and fell. The youth was trapped on the rocks below the falls on the opposite side of Town Creek, he said.  Williams said Geraldine Fire and Rescue, DeKalb Ambulance Service and sheriff’s deputies were on the scene, but were unable to get the youth out of the canyon. Paramedics called in Fischer to perform the high angle rescue.  “We put him in a stokes basket and floated him across...

RALPH STOVER STATE PARK, Pa. (CBS) – Rescuers performed a high angle rescue in Bucks County after a woman fell 75 feet in Ralph Stover State Park.  Police say the woman suffered multiple fractures after falling from a cliff at143 Tory Road, but was conscious. She was transported to an area hospital. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

Ten climbers scrambling on a rock formation at Garden of the Gods Park were brought down by a high-angle rescue team Thursday.  The city defines scrambling as climbing on a rock more than ten feet above its base without proper equipment. It is prohibited in Colorado Springs and the Fire Department says the climbers could face up to a $500 fine. The Colorado Springs Fire Department was alerted to the climbers by concerned onlookers, but say the climbers themselves were resistant to help.  According to the Fire Department, the climbers are on the Tower of Babel formation. That formation is...

Toledo fire Lt. Doug Palicki flipped upside down, hanging from a sturdy orange rope, about 40 feet above the ground. He slid down the rope before righting himself and landing with both feet firmly on the floor of Huntington Center. “Basic techniques,” he said as he stood. The lieutenant was one of 12 firefighters from the Toledo Fire and Rescue Department who spent several hours Monday morning doing technical rope and high angle training — rappelling from rafters nearly 100 feet from the ground. The members of the department’s regional Technical Rope Rescue Team, from...

The new boardwalk at Little River Falls presents a different set of challenges to rescue personnel. The park installed a new boardwalk at the falls at the north end of Little River Canyon National Preserve. The boardwalk was designed to improve visitor safety in an area of the park that averages three high-angle rescues a year. “The boardwalk changes the way rescues can be done, presenting new challenges to the rescue teams,” Chief Ranger Troy Mueller said. Members of the Fischer Rescue Squad and Adamsburg Fire Department joined the preserve staff Saturday in high-angle rescue training...