{"id":71947,"date":"2021-06-21T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/ccfr-conducts-water-rescue-training-near-airport\/"},"modified":"2021-06-21T17:34:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T01:34:01","slug":"ccfr-conducts-water-rescue-training-near-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/ccfr-conducts-water-rescue-training-near-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"CCFR conducts water rescue training near airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t

Capital City Fire\/Rescue on Monday afternoon carried out water rescue training for personnel at the floatplane pond at Juneau International Airport.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

The training, which followed a major training event on Saturday, is part of CCFR’s annual training cycle, keeping personnel ready for rescues in any of Juneau’s varied environs, said assistant fire chief Ed Quinto in a phone interview.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

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Capital City Fire\/Rescue personnel underwent water rescue training at the floatplane pond at Juneau International Airport on June 21, 2021. (Michael S. Lockett \/ Juneau Empire)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

Six personnel underwent the training, carried out in-house by the water rescue team. Training for water rescues helps ready CCFR personnel for the possibility of rescuing a struggling victim, which can rapidly put rescuers into a dangerous situation if not approached effectively, Quinto said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

CCFR and Coast Guard personnel recently cooperated for a similar training<\/a>, learning about swiftwater rescues in the brisk waters of the Mendenhall River.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

• Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at (757) 621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hands-on training is necessary to keep skills sharp and personnel ready. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":71948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-71947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71947"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=71947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}