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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.
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.
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 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
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.
Mountain rescue is often free, although in some parts of the world rescue organizations may charge for their services. But there are also exceptions, e.g. Switzerland, where mountain rescue is highly expensive (some 2,000 to US$4,000) and will be charged to the patient. In more remote or less-developed parts of the world organized mountain ...
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
A new group of elected officials and doctors say the for-profit owner of Mission is failing and should sell Western NC's main health care system. Historic move: new group says HCA must sell ...