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Go On A Rescue!
How do people get
rescued in the
mountains?
Start of a Rescue
• First, when someone gets hurt, you
or a friend will go to a phone and
call 911 - The Emergency Phone
Number.
– Many times, cell phones do not work
in the mountains, so they will have to
run to the nearest house or ask some
one else to go for help.
How Rocky Mountain Rescue
Gets Called
• The person who answers when you call
911 is called a dispatcher.
• You or a friend will tell the dispatcher
what happened and where you are.
• The dispatcher will call Rocky Mountain
Rescue to go help the hurt person...
– Other agencies such as firefighters,
ambulance and police will also come.
Rocky Mountain Rescue drives their truck
with all their rescue gear to the
rescue.
Lots of rescuers come to help
Rescuers sometimes have to leave work or school
and drive long distances to get to the rescue.
All rescuers are volunteers - they come on
rescues because they like to help people, but
often it costs a lot of time and money to do
this.
The rescuers put
bandages on the hurt
person (who is called
the patient) and put
them into a litter. A
litter is a very strong
metal carrier for
moving the patient. RMR
has lots of specialized
gear to safety carrying
someone down a
mountain.
Sometimes this
might involve going
down a vertical
cliff. This looks
scary, but it is
actually very safe
- notice, for
instance that the
litter bearers are
tied in.
Walking
down a
steep
hillside is
called a
scree
evacuation.
We use
ropes to
help the
litter get
back down
to more
level
ground.
...to the ambulance.
The ambulance goes
to the hospital
where doctors in the
emergency room
examine the patient.
Patches worn by a mountain rescuer