Name: Beaver Island EMT students complete cold-water rescue training, March 29, 2005
Start: 2005-03-29
End: 2005-03-29
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2005-03-29
Kind: Education
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: healthcareemergency-managementtransportationeducationcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

On March 29, 2005, Beaver Island high school EMT students trained in cold-water rescue in the icy harbor. They practiced ambulance operations, dry-suit procedures, getting onto ice with ice picks, individual and team rescues, and placing a patient into a floating cot with firefighter assistance.

Evidence limits

The student account documents a training exercise, not a certification record or operational rescue capability assessment.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, May 2005, "EMT Cold Water Rescue."
Reports high school EMT students practicing ambulance handling, dry-suit entry, ice-pick self-rescue, one- and two-person rescue, and moving a patient in a floating cot with firefighter instructors. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, May 2005, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the training report and photographs.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island EMT students complete cold-water rescue training, March 29, 2005”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-emt-cold-water-rescue-training-march-29-2005/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 2005, "EMT Cold Water Rescue." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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