RE: rescue services

["Kathy Mayeda" <kathy_mayeda@atce.com>]

Now, we are being dramatic.  Helicopters standing by?  I know of a woman
who had her horse helicoptered out of the American River Canyon after
a pleasure ride accident.  (My ex's barn was the venue of the "911" show
interview because she boarded her horse there after the accident.) I'm
SURE that she didn't have that helicopter standing by just to rescue her
horse.

So the rescue helicopter was somewhat available for her and she ended up
paying a lot of money herself for the rescue.  It's just having the
the network of such available resources is the question here and knowing
how to contact them.  You may be right.  It probably was 911 to
coordinate it all.  I think that somewhere the ride management mentions
that some of the canyons are inaccessible by helicopter.  And then of
course, if you do not know where the horse really is and if it's still
alive, a helicopter is probably not really the answer!

I was at the Fireworks ride where the Felton (Fire Dept?) had a horse
model in a sling - I guess to garner some financial support for their
organization to be able to buy horse rescue devices.  It was kinda cool
to see that there are people and organizations out there that care.
The Fireworks ride is not a dangerous ride and acccess is real easy
throughout the whole course, but some of the other areas of the
Santa Cruz Mountains are tricky.  This kind of "advertisement" made
me more aware that there ARE resources out there and that they should
be supported by riders as much as possible.

Kathy






-----Original Message-----
From: Lif Strand [mailto:fasterhorses@gilanet.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 12:10 PM
To: Ridecamp
Subject: RC: rescue services


At 01:13 PM 8/10/00 -0500, Tina wrote:
>every other horse event I've attended (dressage, h/j, eventing, etc...)

>always have a rescue squad, ambulance, something on grounds.

"Something on grounds" pretty much says it all.  Now somebody tell me if

mounted orienteering, competitive trail riding, and any other equestrian

event that covers as many miles of trail has a rescue squad available
for
HORSES.  And I'm curious what such a rescue squad would consist of.  At
race tracks there's a veterinary ambulance right next to the track.  How

many veterinary ambulances are available in this country?  Should
helicopters be standing by with slings to airlift horses out?  There's
lots
of people who think RMs should provide "support" but just does this
mean?  I think when it's spelled out, it's not nearly as realistic a
proposal as it seems on the surface. Lif



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