Charlotte fire fighter II, Jay Ogden gives an orientation class about the external rescue hoist attached to a North Carolina Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk to emergency services personnel during NCHART training exercise at Lake Norman, North Carolina, May 8, 2012. NCHART is a highly specialized team consisting of North Carolina National Guard and North Carolina State Highway Patrol air assets matched with North Carolina Emergency Management and local emergency services personnel that form a mission ready package for helicopter based rescues. NCHART can respond at the request of a local emergency management coordinator or NCEM Area Coordinator upon approval by the NCEM Duty Officer. Examples of NCHART missions include: Swiftwater/Flood Rescue Lost Persons Severe injuries with projected extended evacuations Urban or Wilderness High Angle Rescue NCHART trains on a quarterly basis in various skills ranging from swiftwater/flood rescue to high angle and wilderness rescue.
Size: 4287px × 2848px
Photo credit: © 508 collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 8, 2012., air, approval, area, army, assets, attached, based, black, carolina, charlotte, class, consisting, coordinator, duty, emergency, evacuations, examples, exercise, extended, external, fighter, fire, form, guard, hawk, helicopter, highly, highway, hoist, ii, include:, injuries, jay, lake, local, lost, management, matched, mission, missions, national, ncarng, ncem, nchart, ngb, norman, north, officer., ogden, orie, orientation, package, patrol, personnel, persons, projected, ready, request, rescue, rescues., respond, services, severe, specia, specialized, state, swiftwater/flood, team, training, uh-60, urban, wilder
