Mission
Baumann adds, “Our other duties besides law enforcement, firefighting and search and rescue are amongst others: performing static displays, overwatch during VIP transports, Department of Homeland Security missions, counter drug operations and transporting our HOPE team, which stands for Homeless Outreach Proactive Engagement. They ask us to search in specific regions to find homeless camps to make a new outreach to see if they need help. RAVEN is very important to Washoe and the surrounding counties. We are the only airborne division in Northern Nevada and California. Any county that is attached to Washoe County, as a friend or as a neighbor, can make a direct request for service or missions.”
Sgt. Joshua Fisher, dispatch and liaison officer for RAVEN at Reno Stead Airport, explains RAVEN’s assistance procedures. “When a call for assistance comes in, it usually goes through dispatch, or another sheriff’s office. The supervisor gives a call to the unit and RAVEN looks at it and vets it. If the sheriff’s office approves the mission, we fire up our incident management team and follow a certain SAR protocol, and we also build a map with the help of CalTopo. It’s like a search program; we can have any of the maps on it and they can mark the maps. Not only can they track any of the SAR helicopter personnel, so they can see us, but also the SAR teams on the ground, so you can easily see the areas that you’ve covered. The guys at IMT (incident management team) can actually put in points last seen, any items that were found, and mark everything they want. I am responsible for that in RAVEN.
“Weather is also very important, as winds can be very treacherous on this side of the mountains, but also the visibility is very important. We use anything at our disposal like road cams, ski-hill cameras as well as the weather service. Ultimately, the decision to fly or not to fly is up to the pilot. Sometimes we have
a mission to a very remote site. We plan our fuel truck to meet us somewhere in the middle to make the specific mission possible. Sometimes it isn’t even necessary to send a helicopter up, but in that case we already sent our Special Vehicle Unit up (SVU). You also always have to plan for a contingency. You depend on your Plan A, but you always have to have a Plan B in case something happens. There is a lot going on in the background to make everything work together,” Fisher concludes.
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