#introduction #reintroduction

Has it been three years already? Time to update my introduction. I'm still Phlegm. Two years ago I quit the tech world, or rather it quit me. Now I spend my time trying to help people. I'm an #EMT, #wildland #firefighter, and #roperescue tech. I still spend most of my time in, on and around the #SalishSea.

Heart-stopping rescue: Crews pluck stranded BASE jumper from Stawamus Chief
'She was in a relatively vulnerable position. She was hanging from her parachute from a small outcropping of rock, with probably 200 metres below her.'
#rescue #accident #BASEjumping #Canada #BASEjumper #roperescue
https://globalnews.ca/news/10974856/squamish-base-jumper-rescue/
Heart-stopping rescue: Crews pluck stranded BASE jumper from Stawamus Chief

'She was in a relatively vulnerable position. She was hanging from her parachute from a small outcropping of rock, with probably 200 metres below her.'

Global News
Heart-stopping rescue: Crews pluck stranded BASE jumper from Stawamus Chief
'She was in a relatively vulnerable position. She was hanging from her parachute from a small outcropping of rock, with probably 200 metres below her.'
#rescue #accident #BASEjumping #Canada #BASEjumper #roperescue
https://globalnews.ca/news/10974856/squamish-base-jumper-rescue/
Heart-stopping rescue: Crews pluck stranded BASE jumper from Stawamus Chief

'She was in a relatively vulnerable position. She was hanging from her parachute from a small outcropping of rock, with probably 200 metres below her.'

Global News
Heart-stopping rescue: Crews pluck stranded BASE jumper from Stawamus Chief
'She was in a relatively vulnerable position. She was hanging from her parachute from a small outcropping of rock, with probably 200 metres below her.'
#rescue #accident #BASEjumping #Canada #BASEjumper #roperescue
https://globalnews.ca/news/10974856/squamish-base-jumper-rescue/
Heart-stopping rescue: Crews pluck stranded BASE jumper from Stawamus Chief

'She was in a relatively vulnerable position. She was hanging from her parachute from a small outcropping of rock, with probably 200 metres below her.'

Global News
Latest in string of rescues from Vancouver embankment raises concerns
Rescuers had to rappel down about 45 metres (150 feet) to the bottom of the Grandview Cut, a human-made ravine that serves as a right of way for CN Rail and the SkyTrain.
#globalnews #Crime #Rescue #roperescue #technicalrescue
https://globalnews.ca/news/10489551/grandview-cut-rope-rescue-concerns/
Latest in string of rescues from Vancouver embankment raises concerns

Rescuers had to rappel down about 45 metres (150 feet) to the bottom of the Grandview Cut, a human-made ravine that serves as a right of way for CN Rail and the SkyTrain.

Global News
Latest in string of rescues from Vancouver embankment raises concerns
Rescuers had to rappel down about 45 metres (150 feet) to the bottom of the Grandview Cut, a human-made ravine that serves as a right of way for CN Rail and the SkyTrain.
#globalnews #Crime #Rescue #roperescue #technicalrescue
https://globalnews.ca/news/10489551/grandview-cut-rope-rescue-concerns/
Latest in string of rescues from Vancouver embankment raises concerns

Rescuers had to rappel down about 45 metres (150 feet) to the bottom of the Grandview Cut, a human-made ravine that serves as a right of way for CN Rail and the SkyTrain.

Global News
Woman able to ‘crawl to the top’ of escarpment during rope rescue: Hamilton fire
Hamilton fire says some 10 rescue units were dispatched to an area atop the Niagara escarpment early Wednesday to pull a person to safety.
#globalnews #Fire #escarpment #HamiltonFire #roperescue
https://globalnews.ca/news/10181698/hamilton-fire-overnight-rope-rescue-summit-avenue/
Woman able to ‘crawl to the top’ of escarpment during rope rescue: Hamilton fire

Hamilton fire says some 10 rescue units were dispatched to an area atop the Niagara escarpment early Wednesday to pull a person to safety.

Global News
B.C. search and rescue volunteers take park in rope rescue training in Kelowna

The yearly training is a major part of search and rescue and with a variety of terrain in B.C. volunteers need their skills to be perfect.

Global News
Vancouver firefighters rappel down building to rescue trapped window washers

Crews were called to the building at Georgia and Homer streets around 1:45 p.m., after the workers' platform froze midway up the building's exterior.

Global News