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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.
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 ]
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".
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.
A Mountain Locator Unit or MLU was a radio transmitter for use by mountain climbers as an emergency locator beacon when the wearer needs rescue.. The MLUs were simple radio beacons, and thus required search and rescuers to use traditional radio direction finding (RDF or DF) equipment to obtain a bearing, but not a precise location, to the beacon.
A dog wanders up to the fenceleine at Jasper Animal Recue Mission along Carters Mill Road on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023 in Ridgeland, S.C. Drew Martin/dmartin@islandpacket.com
Jeffrey Kelly James (February 2, 1958 – c. December 11, 2006) was one of three experienced mountain climbers who died on Mount Hood in the U.S. state of Oregon in December 2006 in an incident that received worldwide attention. James was a native of Dallas, Texas and a graduate of Texas Tech University in Lubbock.