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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.
Jordan Seidhom’s son snapped this photograph of one of the Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, rescue of two flooding victims following the passing of hurricane Helene.
California Regional Mountain Rescue Association in Mammoth Lakes, CA. 2016 The Crag Rats helping with a snow survey at Tilly Jane Campground on Mount Hood (March 1973). The Mountain Rescue Association (also called the MRA) is an organization of teams dedicated to saving lives through rescue and mountain safety education.
Picturesque North Carolina mountain town destroyed by Hurricane Helene as death toll surpasses 100: ‘There’s just nothing left’ Zoe Hussain September 30, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Search and rescue crews, including teams from Clackamas County Sheriff's Office, Portland Mountain Rescue, Hood River Crag Rats, AMR's Reach and Treat Team, and the Oregon Office of Emergency Management, were deployed to the mountain to assist in the rescue. At around 10 a.m., rescue crews reached the injured climber and took over patient care.
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".
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
Barbara Garland, left, with NC Baptists on Mission Disaster Relief hands out food to other volunteers at Biltmore Church Arden Campus in Arden, N.C. on Monday, September 30, 2024.