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SMR News
July 24th, 2003
Excerpted from The Tule Times -
by Valeri Barnes
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Tulare Co. has seen more than its fair share of mountain and water rescues this Spring and Summer. Many of them might not have had the same happy ending without the help of Sequoia Mountain Rescue (SMR), a fairly new team of highly trained individuals specializing in difficult alpine operations involving technical rescues and recoveries...
... On Monday night, July 21, at 10:30 p.m., Kevin Kemmerling was paged by the Tulare Co. Sheriff's office. <a horseman>, of Camp Nelson, had been riding in the mountains near the Golden Trout Wilderness Pack Station when he stopped to give his horse and mule a water break at Jug Springs. His horse, according to Sheriff's reports, stumbled and fell on top of him. <The horseman> suffered injuries to his lower body and legs, . . .
. . .Kemmerling "rallied the troops" . . .the (SMR) team was on the way up to the site when they found the Camp Nelson ambulence by the side of the road. A woman in her car had gone off the roadway and straight down about 50 feet. The team extricated the woman from the car and carried her up the mountainside to the ambulence. Within 30 minutes they were on their way to the wounded horseback rider. . .
. . .The carryout <of the injured rider> took 3½ hours. It was 7:10a.m. before they reached their destination.
. . .The Sequoia Mountain Rescue team is not compensated in any way for their work. Because it is a nonprofit volunteer team, their only means of funding is through corporate and private sponsors. Anyone can donate and it is tax deductable.
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"We wouldn't be able to conduct our search and rescues the way we do without Sequoia Mountain Rescue," Lt. Donna Perry said. "They are certainly a significant part of our operation."
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