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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Video: Firefighter challenge on Mill Mountain

Video by Seth Gitner
 roanoke.com | 981-3112

Throughout Rescue Challenge, an annual training event in Virginia, a U.S. Army task force team from Fort Belvoir, Va., and nine other teams, including the Roanoke Regional Technical Rescue Team, will perform eight rescue scenarios.

The rescues require skills and tools beyond what's needed for firefighting and medical emergencies. They include rescues from collapsed buildings, caves, trenches and confined spaces, plus large animal and heavy equipment rescues.

Though it's called a challenge, the event is not a competition. The facilitators want the teams to stay safe and use their training.

On Mill Mountain, teams used ropes to traverse the star and rescue two dummies stranded on the top and upper left points.

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