“A call goes through the California Office of Emergency Services. Search and rescue volunteers sign up from Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Dog handlers from around the state respond through the California Rescue Dog Association. By eight in the morning over 120 volunteers gather at a multijurisdictional, protected watershed at the base of Pinehurst Drive, below the entrance to the Redwood Recreation Area. There are equipment trailers filled with lights and tables and generators. There are co...mputers and desks, shade canopies, porta-potties. There’s a rescue truck, a medical van, repelling gear, a food service unit able to feed up to two hundred. The volunteers fill out cards listing their skill levels and special tools they might have. At the minimum they’ve all completed a five-week training and certification course. Many are Type Two, which means they have an additional thirty hours of training. Some are Type One, trained for mountain rescue, able to carry forty-five-pound packs three miles in forty-five minutes.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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