Horton was hired on a permanent basis in October 2014, and she is the only female Cal Fire helicopter pilot. They carry medical equipment to provide basic life support and can fly a patient to a hospital or hand off the patient to an ambulance. The crew consists of a pilot, crew chief and some combination of two doctors and nurses. The process takes 13 minutes now, and Cal Fire hopes that additional training will cut that time to 10 minutes. So the 160-pound hoist, which takes up a seat in the cabin, has to be installed each time it is needed. The helicopter’s primary duty is to drop water on fires and transport firefighting crews. The business end of the 200-foot cable has a large hook that fastens to the harness and the stokes basket. Renovations to the helicopter were completed this year, and its crew underwent training before its Aug. Helicopter 305, which was being shared with the Sheriff’s Department, was turned over to Cal Fire in 2013. By 2013, all Cal Fire helicopters could carry the hoist. She said she hoped that Thursday’s demonstration would show other Inland public safety agencies that the copter and crew are up to the task should those agencies need a helicopter rescue.Īn air-rescue program began in 1994 and existed in several forms, culminating with the first hoist being installed on a Cal Fire helicopter stationed at Hemet-Ryan Airport in 2006. “We are another tool for them if they need us,” said Cal Fire/San Bernardino Unit Capt. Mitch Dattilo, who oversees the aviation program, said Tuesday that they’ve made five rescues at Big Falls in the mountains in the past six days. The sheriff’s helicopter carries deputies and San Bernardino County firefighter/paramedics. 1 became the last of Cal Fire’s 12 helicopters to add a hoist, and the aircraft will supplement the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s six firefighting helicopters that have primary responsibility for search and rescues in the county.
20, at the Prado Conservation Camp in Chino been actual rescues, they would have slashed crucial minutes off the time it would have taken fire engine crews to carry the victims out of mountains to ambulances. Had these demonstrations performed for the media and other emergency responders on Thursday, Aug. As the basket was hoisted into the helicopter, the firefighter on the ground held the basket steady by holding a tethered cable. The crew then repeated the drill, this time attending to a dummy that had been loaded into a stokes basket.
The firefighter attached a harness to the patient – actually another firefighter – and both were lifted in Helicopter 305’s cabin one at a time. Cal Fire pilot Desiree Horton held a UH-1H Super Huey helicopter steady as a hoist cable lowered a firefighter 100 feet to a injured “patient” waiting below.
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