MEMBERS OF the Superior Volunteer Fire Department trained last month for high-angle rescue incidents. Last year, the department responded to five such incidents where only one victim survived. (Photo courtesy of Superior Volunteer Fire Department)
April 4, 2019
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Superior Fire Dep't trains for high-angle rescues
The Superior Volunteer Fire Department has been involved with five high angle rescue accidents in 2018. Including the December 19 pileup on Interstate 90 which included a trucker driver who jumped over an overpass to avoid being hit by a semi-truck. As well as the rescue of Frenchtown Firefighter, Kyle Rauch, who had responded to that incident and slipped on the icy bridge deck and plunged 40 feet down an embankment. Rauch survived the fall thanks to the quick efforts of emergency responders. The truck driver involved with the incident, as well as the other three victims of high angle rescues last year, did not survive.