Capt. Chris Hendricks of the Gaston County EMS (left), Bobby Cooper, Emergency services director Transylvania county Denver, , helps prepare an unidentified victim (center) to be hoisted into a North Carolina Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk during a 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.
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