9/18/17 - Eaton Rapids Twp search & rescue training

On Monday evening, September 18, 2017, the Eaton Rapids Township and Eaton Rapids fire departments participated in a scenario based search & rescue training exercise. Personnel responded to a call of an injured hunter in a wooded area. On arrival they were updated that another individual had gone out to find the hunter and crashed his motorcycle. A specific location was not known for either of the patients, so rescuers had to begin a search to find them. The motorcyclist was located relatively quickly, then personnel conducted a search by foot & ORV to find the hunter. Both patients were packaged and transported to a staging area where an ambulance would have been waiting.