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Snowmobile team honing skills this weekend

Sub-zero temperatures, slick roads, drifting snow, and dangerous wind chills: there’s probably only one local organization that thrives in this weather. And that organization picked the best day for training today. The Knox County Snowmobile Search and Rescue Team will be at Lake Storey this afternoon. Pat Hennenfent with the team says the training starts off with some cold weather training.

“Once we talk about the cold weather,” explains Pat, “we then set up accident scenarios where we actually run a call. When you’re working under the conditions we are it’s way different than if you’re working out of the back of an ambulance because we are out in the middle of nowhere usually and we have to work with the items we have as well as the ability we have to keep people warm.”

He says all area fire departments, ambulance services and police departments are invited to attend.  Hennenfent says he wants his people to come and respond as if it were a real accident, so he never lets them know what exactly they’re training on.  Sometimes the focus is on a hunter that has fallen from a tree stand or a person who is lost and wandering in the snow.  He adds that when someone shows up to observe the training – they often times are put into the scenario to be rescued.

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