![]() I tell him that it's a dead kid, and he sort of pats my shoulder and tells me he'll deal with it. I have to take a second to compose myself, and I get up and go get one of the other vets, who's standing by. Now, I've seen dead bodies before, but something about this whole situation hits me hard. His head is caved in on one side, and he's covered in scratches. I ask her to tell me what's going on, and I sort of pry her arms gently open so I can see what she's holding. That's when I notice the sling on her front and my heart sinks. I crouch down and see that whatever she's holding, it's covering her with blood. She's rocking, holding something, and just shrieking, over and over. I go over while one of the vets tries to calm him down, and I ask the wife what's going on. He's still hysterical, but he manages to tell us that it's not his wife that needs help. Now obviously we can't just drive an ambulance up the walking path, so we ask him if his wife needs help, or if she can walk on her own. He sees us and he screams at us to help them, to please get an ambulance up there. She's screaming these awful, almost animal-like screams, and he's sobbing. When we get there, we see him holding his wife, and shes got something in her arms. We could hear the woman screaming in the background, and he was begging us to come up there right away. The husband was completely hysterical, and we couldn't really figure out what was going on. This case got called in early in the morning, from a young couple who were up on one of the trails that goes by the lake. As an SAR officer, you go out for all kinds of cases, from animal bites to heart attacks. Before I took this job, I was a volunteer, so I had a basic idea of what to expect, but on those calls you're mostly dealing with finding lost people after vets have found signs of them. The first happened on a case that I went out on right after I got out of training, and was still pretty new to everything. It's a great job, despite the occasional tragic situations, and I wouldn't want to do anything else. ![]() ![]() I've been doing this for years, and I started out as a volunteer helping on SAR operations. I'll be speaking to him later in the week, and I will let you all know what comes of that.Īs far as advice on becoming an SAR officer goes, I think the best advice I can give is to contact your local Forest Service office and see if they offer and training courses, or what the qualifications are. However, one of my former superiors no longer works as an SAR officer, and it's possible that he may be willing to talk to me about it. As for whether or not I have ever thought of asking my superiors about them, I have, but again, I don't want to risk my job. I'll go into that more at the end of this update. There is still a great amount of interest in the stairs, and luckily for you guys my friend has a story that I think you'll all be very interested in. We're talking hundreds of miles of thick forest, with a mountain range and a few lakes. ![]() I will say that I'm in the United States, and in an area that is comprised of a great deal of wilderness. In all reality some of the things I've mentioned here could get me in a lot of trouble or fired, so it's best if I just don't discuss too much. I am not comfortable talking about where exactly I work, unfortunately. I'm going to write as many as I can think of, in addition to my friend's stories, and I will probably not update again until I get a chance to answer some questions that I myself have for my superiors.Īlright, so the common questions I found you all had: Well, once again, you guys have blown me away with your staggering amount of responses to my stories! There's no way I can respond to each of you individually, so I'm just going to address some common things again, and then move on to the stories.
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