Faith and I just arrived home from our best field trip yet! We spent the morning at the Ventura County Sheriff Aviation Rescue Facility learning all about helicopters, the types of missions they are required to do, and the many different responsibilities this unit has. It was fascinating, to say the least!
Part way through our tour one of the helicopters that had been out on a call came back to the hanger.
The precision required to land was pretty amazing!
With so many mountain ranges in the county, they do many rescues of people who get lost in the mountains or who become slightly injured. This picture is showing a demonstration of the type of harness used when someone is not injured badly.
All the kids were able to sit inside both the rescue helicopter and the fire helicopter. Faith is climbing out of the fire helicopter.
Below this chopper is a white water tank. They can assist with fires by picking up water with a long tube and storing it in the white tank until it is time to release it on the flames. So this particular aviation unit is a cooperation of the fire department and the sheriff department as both types of work is done with the aviation units. As you can tell, we learned many things!!
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