Post by Sharon Faulkner on Sept 3, 2007 9:16:25 GMT -5
Orientation to Cave Rescue Course - Eastern Region - NCRC
Hello all,
This is a reminder that September 29 and 30 of 2007 will be a large scale training and mock exercise near Laurel Caverns in southwestern PA. About 25 miles northeast of Morgantown, WV. Camping will be free of charge for participants and students at Laurel Caverns on Friday and Saturday nights.
The event is being sponsored by the Eastern Region of the National Cave Rescue Commission, Allegheny Mountain Rescue Group, Mountaineer Area Rescue Group, and Fayette County Search and Rescue.
Cave Part:
ER-NCRC will be having a Orientation to Cave Rescue Course that will start Friday evening and go through Sunday afternoon. This is a regular OCR course where you will learn throughout the course numerous things about cave rescue such as Patient Packaging, Litter Movement, Communications, ICS, Medical, etc.. The cost for this course is $40.00. Further information and
registration information is available on the ER-NCRC webpage at www.er-ncrc.org under training.
Surface Part:
While the cave rescue OCR class is taking place there will be a large scale mock exercise. This will mostly take place on Saturday but there will be multiple interactions with the OCR course including a large Sunday part. This is a great time for regular search and rescue to work together with cave rescue so that both will be better able to work together during actual missions. Opportunities will be available for SAR individuals to participate in almost all aspects of the OCR training including a mock cave rescue.
The surface mock will be designed to be very dynamic in nature so that it will work with 10 individuals or 100. The more individuals that we have means the more advanced that we will be able to go up to and including technical evacuation scenarios.
If you are a caver that has had the OCR course in the past you are welcome to come out and participate in this mock training exercise. One way to keep up your skills is to become involved in Surface Search and Rescue. What many cavers do not realize is that many highly trained cave rescue folks belong to their local Search and Rescue Group so that they can keep there rescue skills up to date and be better prepared to assist in the rescue of "you" the caver. Since cave rescues do not happen that often it is imperative that individuals keep up their skills through multiple methods.
We really want EVERYONE that is interested to show up at this event. This will be the first time that a large scale mock will be done involving multiple aspects of surface and cave rescue components.
For further information on either part of this mock please contact Bru Randall at: caverbru@aol.com
Websites for further information:
Eastern Region of the National Cave Rescue Commission: www.er-ncrc.org
Laurel Caverns Park: www.laurelcaverns.com/
Mountaineer Area Rescue Group: www.sargroup.info
Allegheny Mountain Rescue Group: www.amrg.info
Please forward to those that may be interested:
-Doug
NSS 33064RL
Douglas L Moore II
NASAR 102903
Owner - KarstSports.com (Caving, Climbing, & Rescue Equipment)
This is a reminder that September 29 and 30 of 2007 will be a large scale training and mock exercise near Laurel Caverns in southwestern PA. About 25 miles northeast of Morgantown, WV. Camping will be free of charge for participants and students at Laurel Caverns on Friday and Saturday nights.
The event is being sponsored by the Eastern Region of the National Cave Rescue Commission, Allegheny Mountain Rescue Group, Mountaineer Area Rescue Group, and Fayette County Search and Rescue.
Cave Part:
ER-NCRC will be having a Orientation to Cave Rescue Course that will start Friday evening and go through Sunday afternoon. This is a regular OCR course where you will learn throughout the course numerous things about cave rescue such as Patient Packaging, Litter Movement, Communications, ICS, Medical, etc.. The cost for this course is $40.00. Further information and
registration information is available on the ER-NCRC webpage at www.er-ncrc.org under training.
Surface Part:
While the cave rescue OCR class is taking place there will be a large scale mock exercise. This will mostly take place on Saturday but there will be multiple interactions with the OCR course including a large Sunday part. This is a great time for regular search and rescue to work together with cave rescue so that both will be better able to work together during actual missions. Opportunities will be available for SAR individuals to participate in almost all aspects of the OCR training including a mock cave rescue.
The surface mock will be designed to be very dynamic in nature so that it will work with 10 individuals or 100. The more individuals that we have means the more advanced that we will be able to go up to and including technical evacuation scenarios.
If you are a caver that has had the OCR course in the past you are welcome to come out and participate in this mock training exercise. One way to keep up your skills is to become involved in Surface Search and Rescue. What many cavers do not realize is that many highly trained cave rescue folks belong to their local Search and Rescue Group so that they can keep there rescue skills up to date and be better prepared to assist in the rescue of "you" the caver. Since cave rescues do not happen that often it is imperative that individuals keep up their skills through multiple methods.
We really want EVERYONE that is interested to show up at this event. This will be the first time that a large scale mock will be done involving multiple aspects of surface and cave rescue components.
For further information on either part of this mock please contact Bru Randall at: caverbru@aol.com
Websites for further information:
Eastern Region of the National Cave Rescue Commission: www.er-ncrc.org
Laurel Caverns Park: www.laurelcaverns.com/
Mountaineer Area Rescue Group: www.sargroup.info
Allegheny Mountain Rescue Group: www.amrg.info
Please forward to those that may be interested:
-Doug
NSS 33064RL
Douglas L Moore II
NASAR 102903
Owner - KarstSports.com (Caving, Climbing, & Rescue Equipment)