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County work session: Volunteer search-and-rescue group seeks commission backing
Summary
Presenters asked the commission to support formation of a Cleburne County volunteer search-and-rescue squad affiliated with the Alabama Association Rescue Squad, seeking a nominal $500 yearly funding commitment, access to state training and help finding a central station site.
Cleburne County commissioners heard a proposal to form a volunteer search-and-rescue squad that would affiliate with the Alabama Association Rescue Squad and draw on statewide training, equipment loans and mutual-aid resources.
Haven Hester introduced the effort and asked the commission to provide a formal resolution of support and a modest funding commitment to enroll the new squad in the association’s equipment-and-training program. Hester said the association can provide free certified training for land searches, night-search techniques, traffic-incident management and other specialties and that membership opens access to state equipment loans…
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