Casper Fire Officials Dispatch Emergency Team To Rescue A Dummy | May 10, 2007

AHN Casper Fire Officials Dispatch Emergency Team To Rescue A Dummy May 10, 2007: "Casper Fire Officials Dispatch Emergency Team To Rescue A Dummy

May 10, 2007 11:54 a.m. EST


Nidhi Sharma - AHN Staff Writer
Casper, WY (AHN) - Emergency officials at the Casper, Wyoming, fire department quickly went into action Tuesday morning when they received a call in their office to rescue a worker hanging from 150 feet in the air from the city's Western Area Power Administration tower.
Authorities dispatched Casper Fire-EMS rescue and command units, two Natrona County sheriff's vehicles, a fire protection district rescue unit and a Life Flight helicopter only to discover that it was a dummy that was hanging, not a man.
According to AP reports, officials from the power company said the rescue-dummy had been suspended from the tower last week as part of a training exercise but it wasn't removed because there was bad weather, including lighting, that day.
However, a passerby got confused after seeing the dummy on the tower and called the fire department.
But what is more surprising was that the Casper Fire-EMS Department should have been aware of the presence of dummy, as they participated in the training exercise.


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