![]() ![]() “There’s all of these different departments that all come together,” Shanley said. Planning for the event, Shanley said, required a year of organization to ensure everybody could attend. ![]() ![]() Shanley explained that in addition to Tuesday’s training serving as an introduction to new gear, the training was as an opportunity for around 100 first responders from different agencies to build chemistry. “Today is the day we’re putting everything to the test,” Saunders added. “It’s a time-saver because we don’t have to put people in the water,” Shanley said of the ROV, which he described as “basically a drone on a tether.” “We have three dive teams to make sure our co-operability is good,” he said.Įxercise Coordinator Josh Shanley said acclimating these divers to new equipment, such as their sonar-equipped underwater ROV (remotely operated vehicle), is a matter of ensuring they “get the most done the most efficiently.” Using new equipment acquired through a two-year effort, team members trained via a dive operation and mock-victim rescue at Cabot Camp a wide-area search simulation near Unity Park and searches for scattered plane parts and crash victims both near Unity Park and at the Rod and Gun Club.ĭivers in attendance included members of Massachusetts State Police, as well as Northfield and Hampshire-Franklin dive teams, according to the Western Massachusetts Technical Rescue Team’s Deputy Director Jason Saunders. Response vehicles from municipalities across western Massachusetts packed the Turners Falls Rod and Gun Club parking lot to set up a base of operations before splitting up between four nearby stations. TURNERS FALLS - Emergency responders from roughly 15 agencies unified under the Western Massachusetts Technical Rescue Team for a day of dive training and equipment testing in Turners Falls on Tuesday. Members of the Western Massachusetts Technical Rescue Team exit the Millers River near the French King Bridge during training on Tuesday. Members of the Western Massachusetts Technical Rescue Team rescue mock victims from a rock near the mouth of the Millers River during training on Tuesday. Members of the Western Massachusetts Technical Rescue Team travel up the Connecticut River on their way to a simulated rescue on Tuesday. STAFF PHOTO/JULIAN MENDOZAĭivers engage in training exercises on Tuesday near Unity Park in Turners Falls. STAFF PHOTO/JULIAN MENDOZAĭivers engage in training exercises on Tuesday near the Turners Falls Rod and Gun Club. Members of the Western Massachusetts Technical Rescue Team receive instructions for their mission to extricate an entrapped person from a simulated plane wreckage during a training exercise near Unity Park in Turners Falls on Tuesday. A drone takes off to survey the locations of submerged plane debris during a training exercise near Unity Park in Turners Falls on Tuesday. ![]()
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