Mounted search and rescue

[<Jorene@CEOates.com>]

Yes, this is good! And I know another MSAR group that has training in equine rescue and are called for horse trailer wreck extractions and such. In a disaster MSAR can potentially assist with large animal evacuation and rescue / extraction ... if they have the appropriate training and equipment for the particular task. A good collaboration is with local large animal vets who might already be involved with this kind of thing.

 

Those horse trailers - often pulled with a 4WD rig - can also be used to transport supplies into disaster areas ... assuming the trailer is pretty clean. <g> Or the towing rigs can haul other trailers with supplies.

 

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Jorene Downs
Tulare Co, CA
SAR, MSAR, Swiftwater Rescue, US&R,
Technical Rescue, Cave Rescue,
Hasty Team, ICP
www.CEOates.com/sar
Tulare-Kings CERT Program Coordinator
www.tk-cert.org

----- Original Message -----

From: Deb8562@aol.com

To: msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 5:26 PM

Subject: Re: [MSAR] MSAR in SAR and disasters

This is not really MSAR, but our MSAR unit made temselves available for a missing horse search a few weeks back.

We had a local stable burn almost to the ground. There were injured horses (very badly burned) missing. We did not deploy but went out as volunteers to assist these folks in finding those poor horses, and get them loaded into trailers then taken to Texas A&M Vet Scool ICU.

I do not know if you can use this but it was a local disaster.

Debbie Dooley

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