CALIFORNIA FIRE NEWS - California News with Focus on Firefighting, Firefighters and Wildland Fires throughout the state.
The Real Scoop Fire News When You Need It.
CAL FIRE news, Fire & EMS News, Wildfire Intel, Structure Fires, Vehicle fires, Haz-Mat, Earthquakes, SAR, Wildfires, Floods, Firefighter Jobs, Public Safety Information
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
News: California Leads in Rescue Training
California has almost every natural disaster imaginable—wildfire, earthquakes, and mudslides. The environment is why the state is worldwide leader in rescuing people from danger.
The Chico Fire Department and Cal Fire spent some of the week teaching a small group of Japanese rescue instructors how to save people from danger. They went through some cliff rescue training sessions in which a pulley is used to lift a man out of danger.
Some of the learning takes awhile because words get lost in translation, but the visitors say they have learned a lot. “The US rescue standard is much higher than Japan,” Takeaharo Sato told Action News, “So we learn a lot of things from the US which is why I bring students here. The standard is higher, especially the California standard.”
The group will return to their homeland on Wednesday.
Source: CBS 12
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Twitter Buttons
****REMINDER**** Every fire has the ability to be catastrophic. The wildland fire management environment has profoundly changed. Growing numbers of communities, across the nation, are experiencing longer fire seasons; more frequent, bigger, and more severe, fires are a real threat. Be careful with all campfires and equipment.
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer." --Abraham Lincoln
View blog top tags
---------------------
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer." --Abraham Lincoln
View blog top tags
---------------------
CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO TOP OF CALIFORNIA FIRE NEWS HOME PAGE
No comments:
Post a Comment
CAL FIRE NEWS LOVES COMMENTS...
- Due to rampant abuse, we are no longer posting anonymous comments. Please use your real OpenID, Google, Yahoo, AIM, Twitter, Flickr name.