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Fri 12 09 2011
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In February 2004, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) published NFPA 1670: Standard on Operations and Training for Technical Search and Rescue (SAR) Incidents. The purpose of this standard was to minimize threats to rescuers while conducting operations at technical SAR incidents.
Each year, there are approximately 1,500 incidents resulting in approximately 600 deaths from motor vehicles that have gone off the road and plummeted into the water.
Often currents move slow enough to barely be detected. But given the right circumstances of waves and beach profile, they can develop into currents moving at speeds of up to 8 feet per second – faster than any of us can possibly swim.
Based on our research of ice rescue incidents and fatalities during the years 2006 & 2007, approximately 85% of the incidents were initiated as a result of humans venturing out onto the ice to rescue a domestic animal.
February 17-20, 2011 Lifesaving Resources Training Center Harrisville, New Hampshire
May 19 - 22, 2011 Lifesaving Resources Training Center Harrisville, New Hampshire
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