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DEM #99-2339 October 17, 1999 |
The Pierce County Department of Emergency Management on Sunday the 17th contacted the unit at 5:30 P.M. We were called to back up the Fire Department to rescue a man who had fallen twenty feet from the top of a waterfall in the Pack Forest Experimental station.
Eight team members responded they were Fran Mcfarland, Mike Mixon, Tom Miner, Gary Dunn, Brain Paterik, Joe Rushinko and Chris Berryman. Because of the emergency nature of the call they were asked to report directly to the accident site. Fran went to the cache to bring the rescue truck to the scene. The first team members on the scene were Mike and Ken they were ask to set up a belay system as the fire Department was already in the process of raising the subject up a 30-degree 200 foot slope. After setting up the belay again farther up the slope they reached the trail and helped carry the subject out to a waiting helicopter.
As it became darker and the directions the unit had been given to the accident scene were fairly vague. A number of our members had trouble finding the scene. By the time our full team was on the scene the subject had been retrieved and they were turned around. Some members met at Aaron's Ark restaurant in Etonville to discuss the mission the rest returned home.
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