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Congratulations to the men of Unit 46 for their completion of Basic Training!

Local fire service officials have requested ALERT’s help this week to fight the many fires raging in east Texas.  ALERT has deployed most of the men in the battalion and several officers to put their rarely-called-upon training in wildland fire fighting to work. Many of the area fire and emergency personnel have been on call or on the scene for long hours and ALERT’s team of men has been grateful to be able to assist and provide support for them.  Fires have been widespread this season due to extensive drought; over 3,582,000 acres have burned since November 2010.

Please remember Texas in your prayers – and especially the men and women who are working day and night fighting fires all over the state.

Tuesday evening, August 16^th, the entire tech rescue unit loaded up into a van and departed their “home-away-from-home” for Mount Magazine State Park in Arkansas.   Everything they had learned about high-angle rescue thus far was to be put to practice on some real cliffs. The next day, the unit hit the cliffs at the breathtaking Cameron Bluffs Overlook and proceeded to learn about setting up anchor systems in a real-world high-angle environment. These anchors were then used for the rest of the morning to rappel down and ascend back up the 120 foot rock face. The rest of the day as well the next were used to run practice scenarios off the bluffs, with each man given an equal opportunity to rotate through each of the roles of a rope rescue team; from the incident commander, to the rescuer who was lowered over the edge, right down to being a victim for the scenario.

While they were all the same generic type of rescue scenario, each one had a different twist thrown into it so as to challenge the team in new ways each time; such as the surprise scenario sprung on the group by Capt. Dankers and both Lt. Winchells later that night. The last day was spent out on the slightly less intimidating 90 foot cliffs learning about and putting to practice a crash course on rock climbing.

All in all, it was an amazing trip, with each day presenting new adventures, challenges, and learning experiences.  From the morning wisdom search that Capt. Dankers used to kick-start each day to the scenario debriefings, there was always a chance to glean something valuable and work on applying it.

-Corporal Daniel Creedon

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