Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue (TLAER) offers training nationwide for emergency response services, such as fire departments, rescue squads, law enforcement agencies, emergency management, county and state emergency response teams and animal control offices. The courses are designed with concentration on livestock being the most encountered large animal at an emergency incident, and demonstrations are performed using live demonstration animals - horses and llamas.
You have already clearly demonstrated that any job involving large animals is dirty, and this job is no different.
Emergency personnel are called upon to perform rescues of large animals on a surprisingly frequent basis. These rescues usually involve a lot of dirty things - mud, water, poo...
The TLAER training courses simulate these rescues in a controlled environment so the rescuers can learn the specialized maneuvers and techniques used to rescue large animals from the many interesting predicaments they get into.
Drs. Tomas and Rebecca Gimenez are the TLAER primary instructors and are based in South Carolina, but they travel to numerous sites each year to conduct trainings using their demonstration animals. More information about them as well as pictures of training simulations and actual rescues can be found at
www.tlaer.org.
Other organizations provide rescuer trainings at locations across the country and internationally using horse mannequins for practice.
The TLAER instructors would be happy to help Mike perform a "rescue" of a demonstration horse trapped in mud and/or perform a water "rescue."
In addition to the photographs at
www.tlaer.org, more information can be found on the Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue page on facebook -
www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=....php?gid=73737036701. I am also more than happy to provide videos of training simulations to show just how VERY WET AND VERY DIRTY the rescue personnel are when the trainings are finished!
Rescuing horses from mud - it's a dirty job! (too bad we can't find a real rescue for you - they often fall into septic tanks/old cisterns/wells!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhNibmPJ6KgBeth-Ann Rau
TLAER Assistant Instructor
bethannrau@yahoo.com
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