Teamwork
Baumann explains how coordinated teamwork brings RAVEN together. “In early 2021, we had to fly down to search for a guy, but it turned into a rescue. At one time the rescue teams couldn’t get out anymore as the snowdrifts were so bad. People were stuck. We had tracked vehicles but even they couldn’t get to that location. So I had to get back here at Carson City Airport, switch helicopters, switch roles, get into the Huey, fly down there to hoist them out, and fly back
to get (our rescued person) medical attention.
“That same day during lunchtime, another call came in that a snowboarder was stranded at the bottom of a gully. It was very challenging trying to get in there. The winds were not that bad, but it was turbulent and the clouds circled around him. I tried for a long time to get in there, but I had to come down, sit and take a break, and then go back up again. The snowboarder went down on the east side of Mount Rose but the way to get to him was
going to the south up around the mountain, and come down from the northwest to get down into him. We sent down two of our hasty team skiers and later we picked them and their equipment all up. The snow, the avalanche danger and the low visibility that day was pretty much challenging.
“In the end, no one is more important than the other as we have to work together as a team to get the mission done. Most of the time we are operating with one pilot and one TFO (task force officer). Basically I am the Uber driver
to get people into position. I am talking to other aircraft in the air and with air traffic control, while the TFO is talking to the tactical units on the ground. We can listen to six different radio frequencies at one time. We have a lot that goes on sometimes. If I didn’t have a TFO, I couldn’t do the mission. If we didn’t have the hasty team guys, we wouldn’t have enough personnel to do the rescue. That even goes down to the volunteers, dispatchers and the mechanics.”
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