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A search and rescue horse is a horse trained and used to perform mounted search and rescue. In many cases, the horse is simply a means of transportation for a SAR responder. In other cases, the horse is a full member of the SAR field team. Like a SAR dog, a SAR horse can be trained to search for lost persons, using its keen senses of hearing ...
Two horses stuck deep in mud for hours in Connecticut were pulled out by more than a dozen rescuers Saturday, emerging messy and tired, but safe. A trio of horses were walking from a pasture to a ...
As a charter member of the Mountain Rescue Association, they were founded in 1926 by A.L. Anderson, [5] a lumberman from Hood River, after a search for missing seven year old on Mt. Hood. [6] Their name originates from a wife of a founding member, who stated that the men spent so much time on the crags of the mountain that they were like "crag rats".
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The Mountain Rescue Association (also called the MRA) is an organization of teams dedicated to saving lives through rescue and mountain safety education. The association was founded in 1959. [ 6 ] As of 2007 [update] , the association is made up of over two thousand volunteers, divided in several dozen units. [ 7 ]
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Another 600 search-and-rescue personnel were due to arrive and supplement the untold number of state and local rescue and relief teams. Volunteers are stepping up to bolster those forces.
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