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- From: "Irvin Lichtenstein " <ilichten1@verizon.net>
- To: "'Mounted search and rescue'" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad.
- Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:28:30 -0400
The stories indicate a harness failure
which should have not caused the extremity of the following collisions.
It appears that the parade committee was not prepared for the eventuality of a
major incident, but the driver was not prepared to lose control either. On the 4th I was the right seat
on a motorized unit in the Philadelp All morning long, and immediately after
the parade, the carriage companies were operating their tours of Independence
Hall area without incident. The drivers are also tour guides and often
the horse does all the driving. Guides are young, enthusiastic, and
sufficiently trained to pass a driving and a guiding test. The City has
rules and enforces them. I have seen idiot bus drivers try to goose a
carriage horse with bad results, we have had cars crash into carriages, and
once in a parade a driver hit a siren two feet behind my horse. He relieved
himself on the fire engine. The stories noted kids were in the street picking
up candy. What were they doing in the road, besides being targets? Much
of our route through historic I have been planning for emergencies for
over 30 years, as have many on this list. Just having a plan is usually sufficient
prevention. The parade/event committee has to plan for the worst. It is
likely that investigation will reveal that an ignorant person threw something,
exploded something, or otherwise violated the parade rules that were never enforced.
Whether it is a small town parade with just a few thousand watching or a
million people along a short mile planning necessary. And complexity is
everywhere. We dealt with the parade, city police, National Park Service,
Federal Protective Service (GSA), US Marshals, and Treasury Police as well as
hundreds of units from every where in the line of march, and tourists from all
over the world, and often simultaneously. PA changed its fireworks laws a while back—nothing
more than sparklers is sort of legal without a fireworks permit. It is
hard to chase down violators after the detonation but the sellers are watched
like a hawk for in state sales and incidents are way down. We just
stopped one incident by mentioning that firing was harassing a SAR horse housed
next door, raising disturbing the peace to a felony level and we told them the
DA was looking for an example………………. Sharpen your skills. Do the emergency
planning for all events, drills, exercises. It is an ICS/NIMS requirement
to have a plan, so do it. And train your members in how to handle the
emergency and carry out the plan when needed. Irv Lichtenstein From:
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[MSAR] Amazing and so sad.,
Karen Nesbitt, 07/05/2010
- Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad., Lila Corey, 07/05/2010
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Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad.,
Laurie Hanahan, 07/05/2010
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Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad.,
Lila Corey, 07/05/2010
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Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad.,
Irvin Lichtenstein , 07/05/2010
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Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad.,
Lila Corey, 07/05/2010
- Re: [MSAR] planning, Irvin Lichtenstein , 07/05/2010
- Re: [MSAR] Press coverage of accident, Irvin Lichtenstein , 07/06/2010
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Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad.,
Lila Corey, 07/05/2010
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Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad.,
David leadbetter, 07/06/2010
- Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad., Una Smith, 07/06/2010
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Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad.,
Irvin Lichtenstein , 07/05/2010
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Re: [MSAR] Amazing and so sad.,
Lila Corey, 07/05/2010
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- [MSAR] Amazing and so sad., Karen Nesbitt, 07/06/2010
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