An advanced swiftwater rescue course can be pretty hard to pull off with such a small group, but these guys were up for the challenge. We had fair weather with a bit of cold rain, which we hammered through. The night search was probably the highlight with them having to find me tucked under a rock “unconscious”.
Getting me free was their first challenge and then transporting me to the other side of the river proved to be a whole other ball of wax (not to mention the cookout we had before hand had us all a bit sluggish).
These photos are from a 3 day SRTA with 5 guys from 3 different departments.
- Berry geared up and ready
- Gary searching for an air pocket
- Tyler enjoying the warm water on the American River
- Jeff experiencing a boil line
- Jeff and Tyler discussing how cool it is that this is part of their job