Mounted search and rescue

["IRVIN LICHTENSTEIN" <ilichten1@verizon.net>]

It is agency dependent of course.  Some will go for it if the urgency is
high and the circumstances indicate that a find rather than a recovery is 
possible. In the past the PA CAP would not allow cadets on recoveries, like
drownings, but they sent them to missing airplane searches. There is no
urgency in a recovery and the risk to searchers must be weighed against the
benefit to the family or law enforcement in bringing back a dead body. Just
because we can doesn't mean we should.  

Do you want to be the highest conductor around in a thunderstorm? Or can it
wait for later? Is it worth losing income or endangering your property to
recover a body? When urgency is zero you call it a training mission and
schedule it.

There are only two things I can think of that are harder on a responder than
a dead body.  Seeing it happen and not being able to stop it is one. And
worst of all is having a searcher/responder die trying to stop it.

Irv Lichtenstein    

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[mailto:msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lois Guyon
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 11:16 AM
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