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Locality: Omeo, Victoria

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24.01.2022 When Coulson Aviation started the #CH47 program two years ago, the ultimate goal was to have an initial attack response asset with a tank to operate day or nigh...t #firefighting. This #helicopter is the first NVG equipped super-heavy that will run 24/7 in Southern California. In the past few years, expanding the capabilities of its aircraft fleet to fight fires at night has resulted in a major advancement. During nighttime, fire suppression efforts can be maximized due to less wind and humidity, as well as less aircraft on the fire. #aerialfirefighting #ch47chinook #coulsonaviation

23.01.2022 When it comes to ticks... freeze em, don’t squeeze em https://weareexplorers.co/tick-prevention-and-removal/

23.01.2022 Congratulations to the seven new FDNY Rescue Paramedics who completed the FDNY Rescue Paramedic Training Program on November 19, 2020. These specially trained m...embers have been assigned to 11 Rescue Units throughout the city capable of bringing advanced pre-hospital care to any civilian or member of service in a precarious position while extrication procedures take place. Members selected for this program must undergo and complete intensive training at the FDNY Technical Rescue School which includes confined space training, collapse training, trench removal, and high-angle rescue operations. Their specialized training allows the successful Rescue Paramedic candidate to be able to administer advanced medical treatment in these stressful environments. Members continue to train and work alongside the Special Operations Command in order to prepare for the myriad of unique situations that may arise where rapid medical interventions in conjunction with specialized training are necessary.

22.01.2022 The NSW Rural Fire Service unveiled its aerial firefighting fleet at RAAF Base Richmond, where it will operate from during the upcoming bushfire season. RAAF B...ase Richmond has supported NSW RFS aerial firefighting since 2015. The airbase support we provide everything from air traffic control, emergency services, refuelling and even infrastructure is essential to keeping them in the fight said Air Commodore Carl Newman, Commander Air Mobility Group. Find out more about how we support the NSW Rural Fire Service: https://news.defence.gov.au/service/ready-bushfire-season #AusAirForce

20.01.2022 WATCH || Flying to Antarctica is no easy feat. Our flights to Antarctica have begun for another season. Pilots and crew from No. 40 Squadron plan to fly about a... dozen flights to the ice between November and March in our Hercules and Boeing aircraft, carrying cargo and passengers. Join our crew on one of our Antarctica flights from last season to get a glimpse of what goes on. #NZAirForce

17.01.2022 On September 16, a CH-149 Cormorant crew with 413 (Transport and Rescue) Squadron at 14 Wing Greenwood parked its helicopter at the Saglek, Newfoundland and Lab...rador, airfield after poor weather prevented them from landing at their preferred location. Sometime overnight, a curious polar bear came by to investigate the helicopter, causing some superficial damage as it pushed on a side door, popped out an emergency exit window and removed a small cover panel on the nose. The polar bear did not get inside the helicopter and there were no crew members in the vicinity at the time. After an inspection, repairs were completed and the crew resumed flights on their planned two-week mountain flying search and rescue exercise. See more

16.01.2022 The Canadian Army Advanced Warfare Center conducted Helicopter Under Slung Operations training in conjunction with 450 Tactical Helicopter Squadron on September... 3rd, 2020. Eight Canadian Armed Forces members received their qualification which allows them to rig and hook-up slung loads to helicopters, an invaluable skill on operations. #ByAirtoBattle #1Wing Video: Sailor 1st Class Elizabeth Ross, Garrison Imagery Petawawa

16.01.2022 We have had over 120 people register for #CAWM2020 and we couldn't be more excited! Check out our conference page at https://cawmconference.regfox.com/cawm-conference-2020 for all the details and registration info. Can't wait to see you there for our inaugural virtual conference!

16.01.2022 CLIFF RESCUE Just after 6:30am today, paramedics responded to reports a man had fallen approximately ten metres off a cliff at North Bondi. The man was safely ...extricated and was treated for minor injuries. He was transported to Royal North Shore Hospital in a stable condition. Great work from all involved in the rescue! #NSWAmbulance

16.01.2022 The climber was raised up the cliff face using a high angle rescue procedure, which brought him up the climb which he had fallen off from.

16.01.2022 On Saturday (9/19/2020) the Colorado Hoist Rescue Team (CHRT) was activated for a mission to assist Custer County SAR (CCSAR) in the rescue of an injured climbe...r. The team sent a pair of Rescue Technicians from Alpine Rescue Team and a Colorado National Guard (COARNG) UH-60 and its crew from the Army Aviation Support Facility (AASF) at Buckley Air Force Base, to a location high on the Crestone Needle’s Ellingwood Arete. Custer County SAR managed the operation, and had field teams ready to go if conditions did not allow hoists of the two climbers. Fortunately, favorable conditions enabled the flight crew and hoist operator to deliver the rescue tech on target. Please know that while one rescuer rides the hoist, there is a team of more than 20 others from the organizations mentioned above, along with the Colorado Search and Rescue Association - CSAR, working together to make the rescue possible. The use of helicopters in search and rescue is dangerous, and Colorado’s high elevations and warm summertime temperatures only compounds the dangers for the aviators and rescue crews. The use of a helicopter is limited to rescue those whose injuries are life-, limb-, or eyesight-threatening, or when conditions put ground-rescuers at significant peril. The arrival of a helicopter in a search and rescue setting should never be considered an expectation. It is an exception.

15.01.2022 TRENDELENBURG: 1. Does it even work? 2. Why do we use it? HISTORY: original use--> improve surgical exposure of pelvic organs. Credited to German surgeon Fried...rich Trendelenburg (1844-1924). Has been used to "prevent air embolism during central venous cannulation. Current dogma is "position of choice for shock" with feet above heart &head down "improve venous return". (see our discussion last week on shock). THE TRUTH: Despite common teaching for first line intervention of hypotension/shock maneuvers. 1. Results of multiple research studies did NOT provide overwhelming support for its use as a treatment of hypotension. (Sources below) 2. If Trendelenburg position improved cardiac function it was brief -> followed by hemodynamics deterioration & detrimental effects 3. Adverse consequences were found specifically w/ obese patients, pulmonary pathology, high risk aspirations, head trauma. OTHER COMPLICATIONS: may include dyspnea, anxiety, patient noncompliance, increased ICP, venous congestion, aspiration BOTTOM LINE: "Trendelenburg position should be avoided as a treatment of acute hypotension/shock until definitive research with larger sample sizes is conducted that support its use as safe and effective" NOTE: may be of use for CV cath removal and specific surgical/anesthesia procedures,. Not acute resuscitation. SOURCES: note, there are numerous published articles on this topic. Shammas, A. & Clark, A. (2007). Trendelenburg Positioning to Treat Acute Hypotension: Helpful or Harmful? Clinical Nurse Specialist. 21(4), 181-188. PMID: 17622805 Bridges, N.& Jarquin-Valdivia, A. (2005). Use of the Trendelenburg Position as the Resuscitation Position: To T or Not to T. American Journal of Critical Care. 14(5). 364-368. PMID: 16120887 Jems.com & litfl.com #teach #learn #medical #dr #doctor #icu #head #ems #rn #nurse #nursing #emt #paramedic #medic #shock #dogma #review #study #literature #research #science #published #journal #do #md

13.01.2022 Just after 1 p.m. on Tuesday, our team of volunteers received a call to help a woman who’d crashed her ATV during a guided trip on Shadow Mountain. Two teams re...sponded with the RZR side-by-side, a SAR truck, wheeled litter, and medical gear. The RZR team headed up the dirt road while a ground team approached on foot from the Lost Creek Ranch trailhead. At about 3:45 p.m., the RZR team reached the patient to begin assessing her condition. Given the seriousness of her injuries and distance from the road, TCSAR decided the best option would be to evacuate the patient with a helicopter. With the interagency helicopter being used by the Forest Service to fight a fire in Lincoln County, the team called Air Idaho. That air team accepted the mission and arrived on scene at 4:35 p.m. TCSAR volunteers used the wheeled litter to transport the patient about a half mile to the LZ, where she was loaded into the helicopter and lifted to further medical treatment. The SAR teams returned to the hangar, conducted a debrief, and readied the equipment for the next mission. The volunteers headed home at about 7:30 p.m. #tcsar #backcountryzero #atv #rzr #jacksonhole #helicopter #airidaho #wheeledlitter

13.01.2022 The over-water training for our awesome air ambulance paramedics has been in *full flight* over the past few weeks. Incredible footage from our friends at Coas...t Guard St Kilda who rightly point out that ‘while the skill of the pilots and aircrews is obvious, spare a thought for our vessel crews, who have to maintain a consistent speed and heading with close to 7 tonnes of downwash generated by the aircraft overhead.’ Amazing stuff.

13.01.2022 Set to go Students from the Regular Force Combat Advanced Course were put to the test in the Waiouru Military Training area recently. From mass casualty scen...arios, to urban operations with tactical aerial support, the exercise combined capability and skill of our New Zealand Army’s High Readiness Task Unit, and our Royal New Zealand Air Force’s No. 3 Squadron. As a Force it’s critical we can work together whenever and wherever we’re needed. Many of our personnel are involved in keeping the New Zealand borders safe during the COVID-19 pandemic - exercises like this keep our personnel ready to deploy when required. #Force4NZ

13.01.2022 The way guides Saving the life of people on The Mt.Everest #mounteverestregionsolukhumbu Bishnu Khadka

10.01.2022 Canadian Forces Cormorant Search and Rescue helicopter attacked by a polar bear at Saglek Airport in northern Labrador September 2020.

09.01.2022 Pre intubation Positioning

09.01.2022 Our crew attended a very technically difficult winch rescue operation on Sunday afternoon in the Ruahine Ranges after a Personal Locator Beacon was set off. A ...group of 4 young trampers ( 3 of them Venturer scouts ) headed into the ranges for the weekend. The weather started to deteriorate and after the group had crossed the river several times they realised they were quickly becoming cold and disorientated. They made the good decision to set their PLB off which meant our Rescue Crew were activated immediately and able to go directly to their location. They were located in a difficult to access river bank and Intensive Care Paramedic Ryan Sutherland was winched down to assess and treat the patients. He quickly identified that their deteriorating state meant that they needed to be extracted quickly. Pilot Jeremy Bruce says ‘ the job was challenging and mentally exhausting as I had to hold the helicopter at a hover for up to 10 mins for each winch. I focused on the top of a tree as a reference point and managed to hold the helicopter steady in deteriorating conditions for the long 160 feet winch up and down each time. However we do plenty of training and the crew look forward to jobs like this that put our skills to the test. It is so rewarding to know that we got all 4 out safely and is simply why we do what we do. ‘ Crewman Wayne Steed completed 9 winch rotations through the course of the afternoon ensuring that each patient was brought up to the helicopter safely. The first two patients were taken to Palmerston North hospital for urgent treatment, and the helicopter then headed back to pick the other 2 patients and all the gear. The tired crew then delivered the second two patients to Palmerston North hospital nearly 4 hours after they arrived at the rescue scene. The group did everything right when they set off their PLB ‘ Jeremy says ‘ it meant we were able to go directly to them and get them out quickly. If they had left it any longer with the weather deteriorating so swiftly we may not have been able to get in , so the ending could have been very different. ‘ This is another good story reminding us all of the importance of being well prepared when heading into the bush and having and using a PLB. Well done to Jeremy, Ryan and Wayne ... another hugely successful and challenging rescue mission completed.

07.01.2022 https://www.helis.com/database/model/AW101-Mk612/ The blades of the most advanced search and rescue helicopter

06.01.2022 This afternoon at approximately 12:30 p.m. WCSART had two nearly simultaneous calls roll into dispatch. The first call regarded an injured male hiker in the Ta...r Ridge area of Wolfe County. The subject had suffered a non-ambulatory injury to his right knee while hiking below the cliffline on his own property. As on foot access to the bottom of the cliff was very steep and involved loose terrain, a traditional litter carry out was not the best option. Instead the team rigged a high angle rope rescue operation. The subject was then raised to the top of the cliff, and extracted from the woods. The second call involved a female who fell approximately 40 feet while climbing Trundling Kentucky a 5.7 sport route at Bruise Brothers Wall at Muir Valley. Team member Erik Kloeker (who works as the property manager at Muir Valley) along with volunteers, made quick work of her evacuation to a waiting ambulance. The patient was then airlifted as a result of her injuries.

06.01.2022 Bell 412EP operated by Air Center Helicopters in support of the National Science Foundation in Antarctica. This gorgeous shot by Bryan Minnear is an entry in our 2020 Photo Contest, closing Friday at photocontest.verticalmag.com!

05.01.2022 In the Pacific. Life-saving first aid skills are among those being shared by a Defence training team which is in Fiji, working alongside Fijian counterparts. Ou...r team, alongside the Ministry of Defence, have been sharing their knowledge and skills, enjoying the opportunity to train, coach, mentor and embed alongside military and defence counterparts in Fiji. Among the team are New Zealand Army personnel who have been teaching advanced first aid skills including medical care under fire, drag lifts and carries, medical tactical field care and work-place CPR. Also in the group is a hydrographer from the Royal New Zealand Navy who has been taking a six week course on hydrographic survey work. Our personnel have also been instructing coaches on the Republic of Fiji Military Forces Shooting Coaches Course. The 15-strong combined training team carried out 14 days managed isolation on their arrival in Fiji. The team will be in Fiji until the end of the month. #Force4NZ #Force4Good

02.01.2022 Gear check for Moai Land SAR Search & Rescue dog #FridayFloof #LandSARnz #SearchDog #Volunteers

01.01.2022 Getting the job done Our Royal New Zealand Air Force’s No. 40 Squadron were in the thick of training last week, teaming up our New Zealand Army soldiers from ...5th Movements Company during the aircrews technical qualifications. Taking to the Manawatu region, 5 Mov pre-packaged and prepped a number of loads for flight. From there, 40SQN released the loads out of the back of a Hercules aircraft onto a target below. Having the skills for prepping and dropping supplies is vital during Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief situations, knowing that our personnel can respond together when required. #Force4NZ