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Article: Mountain Rescue Needs A Lift -- Public's help sought to replace the truck that hauls their gear
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- April 27, 2000
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TRAIL BLAZER
Raising a heavy evacuation litter up a steep, rocky hillside
comes more easily for members of the Central Washington Mountain
Rescue unit than raising money for equipment. Yet, as 17 members of
the group practiced rescue skills under the most demanding of
conditions on a recent Saturday, a problem more perplexing than the
Tieton cliffs loomed over their heads.
"We're really desperate to get some funds to replace our truck,"
said Ted Rapasky, past president of the unit.
Standing above the Tieton River on a boulder-strewn slope,
Rapasky joined the other members of the mountain rescue unit in