Pet Rescue 6150

[Monica Okane]

Theaim of this unit is to assess learners against the national standard in a realistic high risk environment preparing to work safely under emergency conditions; entering and exiting confined spaces safely; preparing to use appropriate respiratory protective equipment (RPE); using rescue equipment; following procedures and dealing with emergencies.

The unit also requires the learner to demonstrate sufficient knowledge of emergency rescue and recovery of casualties from confined spaces through a mix of practical observation and written assessment.

12-16-2023 Update: Though Shadow's past is unknown he most likely experienced some trauma as he does have anxiety and fear issues, which will take time and patience, but with training and support, Shadow will continue to grow! He iscurrently attending Obedience classes to address these two issues. All in all, he is still a goofy boy who is very food motivated. More updates will be provided as we go through his training!

My life story so far has been both really sad and very happy. When I was surrendered at the Virginia Beach Animal Care and Adoption Center in June 2023, I was 2 years old and full grown, but I weighed only 37 pounds. Talk about skinny!

Currently we do not know if Shadow 6150 will be able to attend the event, Henrico Recreation & Parks Dog Days of Summer on Saturday, August 3rd, 2024.Currently we do not know if Shadow 6150 will be able to attend the event, VGSR Rescue Event-Chantilly on Sunday, August 4th, 2024.Currently we do not know if Shadow 6150 will be able to attend the event, VGSR Rescue Event - Fredericksburg on Saturday, August 10th, 2024.See Shadow 6150's attendance information for future events.See a list of all events.

Industry leaders now recognize pet reunification programming as at least equal in importance to adoption programming. Keeping pets out of your shelter has innumerable benefits to your organization, not least being the trust, goodwill (and donations!) you'll earn from your community. This course will help you build a robust pet reunification program with staff and/or volunteer resources.

This course is the result of a collaboration between between Human Animal Support Services, Michelson Found Animals, and the many shelter and rescue staff across the country and internationally who have volunteered their time to innovate new programs through the Human Animal Support Services working groups.

This course has now been superseded by:

6160-08 Level 3, Working as a member of a recue and recovery team in confined spaces3 Day Level 3 Confined Spaces Rescue CourseThe three day rescue course is for those who may have a need to entre a chamber to rescue an injured or incapacitated casualty. A prerequisite for this is that you hold 6150-03 high risk entry as you will entering a chamber and performing a rescue while wearing Full Breathing Apparatus. While not mandatory you should also hold some level of first aid training and Oxygen therapy would also be desirable for treating the casualty.

This course delivers the necessary skills, knowledge and practical work for these professionals to act quickly in the event of an accident, use equipment effectively and gives candidates the tools necessary to maintain safety of all people involved within a rescue situation.

Although rescue of someone trapped in a confined space is often of the highest priority, it is important for rescue professionals to be protected in order to ensure they are not also affected by the same hazard that caused the accident in the first place. By attending this course candidates will learn about how to avoid these dangers and safely rescue those within the confined space without posing a risk to themselves.

The following modules are covered in this emergency rescue course:

Preparation for safe working in confined spaces in an emergencyExiting and entering confined spaces safelyPreparation for use of breathing apparatus and using the apparatus in the confined spaceThe use of rescue equipmentSafe rescue and recovery of a casualtySafety proceduresHow to deal with emergenciesBehaviour when carrying out emergency rescue and recoveryApplying industry specific knowledge to given emergency situationsThe course covers all aspects of confined spaces, including low, medium and high risk environments. Candidates will also be introduced to the equipment used within these areas such as breathing apparatus, face masks, protective clothing and more.

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Mid-afternoon it snowed heavily (half a metre), light powder. With an ominous rumble, a light shake of the ground, we knew a medium-sized avalanche had passed close by. Alarmed, looking outside I saw that the Adventure Peaks tent only 5 metres away had DISAPPEARED, taken by the avalanche, in fact the avalanche had passed only 1 metre away from one of our tents. SHIT, THAT WAS CLOSE.

Thankfully before another avalanche higher up could build and take out our camp it stopped snowing. I slept in the snow cave in my down suit and old One Sport boots with the shovel at the ready, and with most of the crampons and ice axes, the rest slept nervously in the tents. We had had a few distractions that day.

Fabien was in the tent rocking and putting his gloves on his feet. Double SHIT. Immediately I gave Fabien 8mg Dexamethasone and 250mg Diamox orally, he was already partially incoherent, Yannick got 4mg and Diamox and water since he was still totally conscious and we got ready, leaving the tents there. Yannick was supported by Olivier and myself, with Olivier's special responsibility to choose the trail, Denis with Fabien and Pierre-O helping them. We set off slowly down the initially steep slope.

Fabien was docile and plodded supported, Yannick was more wobbly but more alert, just not able to control balance. We were descending loaded slopes, sticking to the edge of the now covered avalanche path, reasoning it was the hardest and safest snow, but still at least knee deep and roughly 35 degrees.

A third of the way the way dropped off the soft ridge down initially steep snow that looked totally loaded. Denis threw a few rocks, each setting off smallish surface avalanches that continued releasing by themselves for perhaps 20 minutes, but it still looked hideously dangerous. Denis joined old fixed rope there to about 35 metres and gingerly Pierre-O set out across it to set something bigger off, horribly risky.

We stripped him off and wrapped him in a sleeping bag in the tent, Denis tenderly caring for him, as he had all day. The oxygen calmed him but even with an 8mg Dex injection by Jeff later, he showed no signs of improvement.

We were now in a quandary. Malte of our team had bought up medical oxygen courtesy the International Canadian team, Gordon (our team) was about to arrive with Canadian IV fluids, Rooz (Dutch woman) was massaging Fabien's feet, which calmed him somewhat, and we had his oxygen saturation up, but the oxygen system was leaking and required constant attention. There was only one tent left at Camp 1, the rest having been stripped by the summitting teams. Should we stay here rough and stabilize him, or continue descent on sun-warmed dangerous afternoon slopes?

A tough call, and just as Gordon was 40 metres from arriving, we decided to descend to Camp Half, where we had tents. The slopes had avalanched already and with open views there was enough warning for climbers to swing out of the way, probably, anyway, we hoped. We dropped Fabien to Camp Half with plenty of work but no drama, Paul, especially powerful.

Mike Farris of our team and LO "Captain" had been working frantically at BC arranging a helicopter evacuation and seemed to be making headway on a sat phone (Iranian and later Dave Pritt's) with the paperwork, an evac in the afternoon seemed a possibility and certainly tomorrow seemed fairly sure, if the weather was kind so we continued lowering. Gordon's tough wrapping of Fabian succumbed almost immediately to his thrashing around, so we desperately lowered him thru the 'warm' snow in his one piece underwear. At the end of the 580m of fixed line soon more help arrived in the form of some great equipment, a new Skedco stretcher from Dave Pritt's Adventure Peaks. With a smooth tough base we could carry, and on the difficult parts, drag Fabien, well protected. Mike had the foresight to set up a temporary camp on a roughly level piece of the moraine where we optimistically hoped a helicopter could land.

Another bottle of Dave's oxygen seemed to be helping more, as did eye drops for snow blindness and Fabian sometimes answered questions with a yes or no, but was still not what you could call conscious. All the paperwork headway of yesterday seemed in vain, lots of shouting in Urdu in the phone, nothing was clear, then sharp ears picked out the deep, slow thump-thump-thump of an Mi 17 chopper. Was it for us?

With tears of joy we realised it was, and in it came, far more formidable than we envisioned. The Pakistani pilot knew our site was less than ideal and with great skill be hovered the big beast on two wheels as we slid Fabien in, accompanied by a still only 80% Yannick (who should have a full checkup after his sickness and return to sea level).

We heard so little about Fabian and Yannick once they arrived in Skardu. I certainly had faith that the doctors there, very experienced in altitude cases, were the best. However why didn't we have news from ATP? It turns out that Major Imran was in Skardu (as we hoped, fingers crossed) and there is nobody that could have done a better job of pushing for the best for our team. Why were we still negotiating about the rescue helicopter even when we heard it in the distance? He has been pushing and obtained all the clearances, apparently even waking the pilot (a friend) early.

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