Rescue readiness, downstream and high aboveground
Published 08.09.2019
– Photos by Jennifer A. Cline, writer/magazine editor,
and Christopher J. Leigh, video production coordinator
Firefighter/Paramedic Mark Taluba, of Anne Arundel County (Md.) Fire Department, leads students through a vehicle rescue at the CAFCA training site. Taluba is a 1999 graduate of Penn College’s environmental technology major.
Paramedic students with their fire department mentors – and a newly rescued “patient.”
Carly R. Stahl, a paramedic technician student from Lewisburg, tosses a rescue line to Bambi A. Hawkins, learning laboratory coordinator for the paramedic program.
Aboard a Williamsport Bureau of Fire rescue boat, piloted by the bureau’s Kenny Smith, fire engineer, students pull classmate Marissa L. Davis from the water. Davis is from Trafford.
Sarah C. Gagnon, a paramedic technician student from Morris, shares a laugh with her peers at the CAFCA site.
Anchored by staff from the Williamsport Bureau of Fire, Stahl descends from the fourth floor of the training mock-up.
Matthew C. Larock, an emergency medical services student from Chemung, N.Y., begins his descent.
Emergency medical services student Jared A. Stewart, of Waverly, N.Y., gains real-world perspective on high-angle rescues.
Davis secures herself before rappelling from the fourth floor.
Stewart “learns the ropes.”