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1974 - High Elevation Rescue Training

1974 - Platoon 2 High Elevation Rescue Training at Centerville School
Summer 1974 - 2nd Platoon training on the roof of Centerville School before it became the Miller Library.  The training involved lowering the litter from the roof with a victim secured inside.
 
The "victim" cannot be identified, but some of the others can be.   From L to R - 1. Unknown firefighter (back to camera), 2. Roger Sullivan (working extra), 3. Ray Vreeland, 4. Bill Coppola (also working extra), 5. Capt. Burt Hillocks, 6. Tom Mikolinski, 7. Unknown firefighter in helmet (behind Mikolinski), 8. Unknown firefighter (tying off rope), 9. Dep. Chief Joe McDermott, 10. Howie Hurlburt, Sr. (with hand on ladder), and 11. Warren Blake (on aerial ladder).  (Photo by Ed Doiron)

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