LAKE HAVASU CITY – On Saturday, Nov. 2, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue members participated in advanced technical rope rescue training in the north of Lake Havasu City.
The training focused on advanced technical rope rescue scenarios involved in challenging rescue situations. Rope rescues involve a complex understanding of rigging with anchors, lowering and raising systems and require continuous training in different environments and situations to remain proficient with these perishable skills.
This class included instruction on performing rescues rappelling and ascending using different types of equipment, the use of the Arizona Vortex over steep angles, lowering a patient with a rescuer, low-angle rescues, patient packaging and beginning rigging for our new members. Team members also discussed newer technologies and equipment and how they can be used to assist the more complex rescue situations.
