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Are You Ready for Rural Rescue?
I received the following pictures in an email today and it got me thinking a bit about rural rescue and the lack of understanding that many have about it. (Myself included!).
I've had a few really good chats to people on these forums about Farmedic and similar programs- there's some amazing hazards present in some of these pictures.
What can you see? What training has your department had in these type of events?
I've had a few really good chats to people on these forums about Farmedic and similar programs- there's some amazing hazards present in some of these pictures.
What can you see? What training has your department had in these type of events?
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Permalink Reply by Oldman on
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Ok, a moron can drive into a mud hole, but in picture 8 you see the definition of monkeys and the football. And the football is winning!
I've also never seen anyone use a backhoe to bury themselves.
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Permalink Reply by Reg Mathis on
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Our latest MOI-Machinery was last Tuesday. An older gent with his hand caught in a corn harvester. The first challenge was locating the scene. He was over a half-mile from the road with no appreciable driving surface between the scene and the POE to the property. He called 911 himself and he dropped the phone several times, causing a disconnect with dispatch. But he called back every time! Anyway, rescue finally got enough info from him to figure out where he was and got on scene. As is usually the case with Rural departments, most of us have a fair amount of experience with machinery(either farm machinery or industrial equipment) so extrication was completed in good time. I hope to find out tonight what the interval was between initial call and time of extrication and will update this post. The next challenge was getting the pt. to ALS and a facility with ortho-trauma. We were lucky that LifeForce was available and the last I heard, they were waiting to see how much use the pt. would retain of his hand.
This incident points out several of the challenges we face in a rural environment.
TCSS,
Reg
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Permalink Reply by William Lobley on
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Yeah, this is Rural America, but what do we consider as being rural? We do have a lot of different things to cope with out in this area..farmland, agricultural co-op's, farm machinery, etc. We've even had to deal with Silo Rescue in the past few years, but the funny thing is, we're an hour away from major cities on the East Coast, so what do we consider rural anymore?
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Permalink Reply by lutan1 on
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The location is another "hazard" many would never consider. For metro depts, if it aint in the map book or SatNav, then where the hell is it??!! ;-)
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To answer your question, there are exactly two of us who when through the Ag-rescue training. Several of use grew up around tractors, grain dryers and silos so we might have a better than average understanding at an operations level. Our biggest obstacle would be equipment. Luckily, we have mutual aid agreements with several departments which have tactical rescue trailers and equipment, which we could call if needed.
The common sense approach is to know your limitations and abilities. Luckily, I can only remember a couple of incidents in the last 20 years in my district.
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