ESCANABA — According to Delta County Sheriff Gary Ballweg, it costs around $10,000 to maintain the Delta County Search and Rescue team each year. The volunteer rescue group is funded by private donations and grants from individuals and companies.  They were able to purchase new equipment thanks to a successful fundraiser last year. The new equipment cost a little over $5,000. Their new ice rescue suits are designed for extreme cold weather rescues. The Search and Rescue team responds to 12-15 ice rescues in a season. But they haven’t had any rescues yet this year. If you...

Last week Code Red Safety traveled to SW Houston to train a customer’s workers on confined space rescue.  Included in the training was rope techniques, mechanical rescue devices and training on confined spaces and how to deal with them in general. 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

The Altadena Mountain Rescue Team executed a rope rescue of four hikers who were stuck on cliffs above Eaton Canyon this week. The rope rescue, which took several hours, was the third one in a little over 24 hours.  On Monday night, a hiker fell in Eaton Canyon, and on Tuesday morning, the Fire Department airlifted a hiker off a cliff above Eaton Canyon. Tuesday night’s rope rescue was a little more tricky: because it was night time, rescuers did not want to use a helicopter to evacuate the hikers, so the team used ropes to rescue the four, using maneuvers that took several hours to...

Norman Fire Department recruits used the Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium at OU as their training base to practice rope rescue techniques.   BY JANE GLENN CANNON jcannon@opubco.com Oklahoman    0 Published: March 6, 2012 NORMAN — Norman Fire Department recruits used Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium as their training base to practice rope rescue techniques Fourteen recruits took turns last week rappelling down the side of the stadium as part of academy exercises designed to prepare them for real-life rescue situations. The recruits have been in training since December....

An injured worker, who was dramatically rescued from a high-rise construction site in the Docklands, dislocated his shoulder by throwing his arms out as he fell through a hole in the top floor of the building, according to paramedics. A crane was used to lower the 21-year-old man, originally reported as older, from the rooftop of the Aurecon Centre construction site, on the corner of Collins and Merchant streets, to the ground, nearly an hour-and-a-half after the accident happened about 12.20pm. Ambulance Victoria paramedic team manager Rachelle Pellow said the man’s quick-thinking had...

  Photo courtesy of Alan HughesLewis and Clark County Sheriff’s Office Rescue workers haul injured hiker Sheri Onstott up an embankment by means of a rope rescue system on Sunday below Hauser Dam.    HELENA — Authorities from many agencies worked together on Sunday evening to help a Helena woman who broke her ankle while fishing near Hauser Dam. While her husband walked a half-hour in order to gain cellphone service to call 911, Sheri Onstott, 41, was taken care of by a member of Lewis and Clark Search and Rescue who just happened to be in the area at the time.  ...