Mounted search and rescue

[Una Smith <una.smith@att.net>]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 09:57:23PM -0400, BRENDADURHAM5@aol.com wrote:
>I have  be contacted by an acquaintance in southern Indiana, requesting 
>help finding a  horse lost in one of their state parks for 3 days.  He ran 
>off 
>when his  loose saddle slid and was hanging upside down under his  belly.
> 
>please call me if you are interested in contacting them to offer help  ( 
>could be good training), I will give you the contact info. Brenda  
>513-646-0061

Brenda,

Any word on this horse?  I agree it would make a great training exercise
for SAR teams, an opportunity make good use of tracking skills such as
sign cutting and track age estimation, also a variety of search skills
including investigation and containment.

        Una Smith, PhD
        Los Alamos Amateur Radio Club, KE5CEP
        NM SAR SC Plans/Ops/Logs, PIO, AOBD, COML
        NM SAR Council Board 2012-2015
        NM SAR annual convention ESCAPE 2013 Chairwoman

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