NCHART training [Image 6 of 16]

DENVER, NC, UNITED STATES

05.08.2012

Photo by Tech. Sgt. Brian Christiansen 

North Carolina National Guard

Capt. Chris Hendricks of the Gaston County EMS (left), Bobby Cooper, Emergency services director Transylvania county Denver, N.C., helps prepare an unidentified victim (center) to be hoisted into a North Carolina Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk during a NCHART training exercise at Lake Norman, North Carolina, May 8, 2012. NCHART is a highly specialized team consisting of North Carolina National Guard and North Carolina State Highway Patrol air assets matched with North Carolina Emergency Management and local emergency services personnel that form a mission ready package for helicopter based rescues. NCHART can respond at the request of a local emergency management coordinator or NCEM Area Coordinator upon approval by the NCEM Duty Officer. Examples of NCHART missions include: Swiftwater/Flood Rescue Lost Persons Severe injuries with projected extended evacuations Urban or Wilderness High Angle Rescue NCHART trains on a quarterly basis in various skills ranging from swiftwater/flood rescue to high angle and wilderness rescue.

• Date Taken: 05.08.2012
• Date Posted: 05.10.2012 11:05
• Photo ID: 577140
• VIRIN: 120508-F-AY498-007
• Resolution: 4288x2848
• Size: 3.34 MB
• Location: DENVER, NC, US