Boy Scout members of Troop 1 paid a visit to the Logan-Cache Airport this evening to meet at the Cache County Sheriff’s Office Search & Rescue facility to earn requirements for Search & Rescue merit badge. Bart Esplin, Vice Commander of the Cache County Sheriff’s Office Search & Rescue, instructed our scouts on how to read Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates. The UTM is a system of coordinates that describes position on a map. The UTM system is widely used by Search & Rescue operators.
JR Schenk, Medical Team Lead and a certified Emergency Medical Technician for the Cache County Sheriff’s Office Search & Rescue, next gave our young scouters a tour of their facility, culminating in a dummy on a rescue litter being lowered by a rescue rope from the ceiling meeting room to the basement floor. Assisting with the victim dummy rescue litter extraction exercise was Cache County Sheriff’s Office Search & Rescue volunteer David Wrobel, who showed our scouts several knots used while using ropes in emergency rescue exercises.
Troop 1 next meets on Tuesday, May 13th from 7:00-8:30 pm at Logan’s First Presbyterian Church to plan our May 16-18 camping trip to City of Rocks National Reserve in Malta, Idaho, where Utah’s oldest and most adventurous scouting unit will go hiking, rock climbing and rappelling!
January 13, 2014 Herald Journal news article on an avalanche victim rescue near St. Charles Peak in Idaho that involved both Bart Esplin and JR Schenk:
http://news.hjnews.com/allaccess/article_71e1a18a-7cdd-11e3-8638-0019bb2963f4.html
Cache County Sheriff’s Office Search & Rescue website:
http://www.cachesar.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=2
JR Schenk, Medical Team Lead and a certified Emergency Medical Technician for the Cache County Sheriff’s Office Search & Rescue, next gave our young scouters a tour of their facility, culminating in a dummy on a rescue litter being lowered by a rescue rope from the ceiling meeting room to the basement floor. Assisting with the victim dummy rescue litter extraction exercise was Cache County Sheriff’s Office Search & Rescue volunteer David Wrobel, who showed our scouts several knots used while using ropes in emergency rescue exercises.
Troop 1 next meets on Tuesday, May 13th from 7:00-8:30 pm at Logan’s First Presbyterian Church to plan our May 16-18 camping trip to City of Rocks National Reserve in Malta, Idaho, where Utah’s oldest and most adventurous scouting unit will go hiking, rock climbing and rappelling!
January 13, 2014 Herald Journal news article on an avalanche victim rescue near St. Charles Peak in Idaho that involved both Bart Esplin and JR Schenk:
http://news.hjnews.com/allaccess/article_71e1a18a-7cdd-11e3-8638-0019bb2963f4.html
Cache County Sheriff’s Office Search & Rescue website:
http://www.cachesar.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=2