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Reaching new heights
The Onondaga Hill Fire Dept. High Angle Rescue Team is a division of the Rescue Company and
is comprised of 10 firefighters that have undergone advanced training to perform rescues involving the use of ropes, rigging and specialized hardware.The members of the team hold a drill at least once a month. In 1999, the team responded to a person trapped in a storm damaged tree. The combination of a raising / lowering system and intricate rigging was used to extricate the woman pinned, in the upper branches, against the trunk of a tree by a large broken limb. In 2001, the call went out for a man in a creek bed. A 17 year old male jumped over a guardrail unaware of a creek running 12 feet underneath the road. A low angle litter operation was used to retrieve the male who somehow recieved only minor injuries.
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