We used our training to make sure we safely saved people.” Learning in Fast Water Some victims had medical issues and emergencies, too.įast-moving water, Braunecker said, “is powerful and relentless. At the Little Third Fork River, frightened people were safely plucked off car tops, helped from inside their stranded vehicles, or assisted from floodwater to safe places. That’s where the swift-water rescue training MDC provides to conservation agents and public safety responders makes a difference between lives lost or saved. When thousands of gallons per second are rapidly flowing downhill, the force is immense, and people are helpless against that force unless they understand it. Carry a gallon of water in a bucket and you learn water’s heavy weight. They observed obstacles and evaluated what the water was doing. Instead, they planned and prepared quickly but carefully, deciding what boat and equipment to use, and how to make approaches to victims with fast, heavy current boiling over a roadway. Joseph, along with sheriff’s deputies and the Missouri Highway Patrol. Jason Braunecker, MDC protection district supervisor, was one of the first conservation agents on the scene in southwest DeKalb County, east of St. A normally small and placid country stream was raging, and in pre-dawn darkness, the torrent swept unsuspecting motorists off Missouri 31 highway. Storms had dropped 6 to 11 inches of rain on northwest Missouri overnight. People were on top of vehicles, trapped in their cars, or stranded on shore when rescuers reached the surging floodwaters of the Little Third Fork River at sunrise on June 25, 2021.
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