Barangays in Tinglayan, Kalinga train for mountain search and rescue

Tinglayan, Kalinga – Forty individuals from various sectors and barangays in Tinglayan are now ready to respond to distress calls that may happen in the municipality after being equipped with skills in Mountain Search and Rescue (MOSAR) through a 5-day training done on August 29 to September 2.

The trainees were members of the Barangay Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council, emergency responders’ team and youth sectors from the Barangays of Tulgao West, Tulgao East, and Ngibat.

According to the Provincial Disaster Risk and Reduction Management, the goal of the training is to ‘bring rescue services closer to the people.’ With trained individuals in the area, the burden of those in need of help during emergencies will be lessened.

Alongside the search and rescue training, the participants were also taught Basic Life Support (BLS) as the skills in this area are needed to ensure safety of victims during disasters.

Highlights of the training

The Bureau of Fire Protection-Kalinga provided hands-on skills practice on various knot-tying styles necessary when responding to disasters in the mountains requiring the use of ropes.

Participants were likewise lectured on the functions of using equipment and their advantages - the pulleys and carabineers, the safety measures when doing a mountain rescue, rescuers and haulers techniques when ascending and descending a victim on a low angle and high angle altitude.

Meantime, Mayor Sacrament Gumilab, in a statement, expressed gratitude to those who spearheaded the activity stressing that it is a must to have trained individuals in the municipality to do the rescue when uncontrolled circumstances brought by disasters happen.

“We are not praying for this to happen but Tinglayan, being a mountainous area, is prone to landslide,s particularly during rainy seasons, so in cases that we needed the help of rescuers, we already have them in the municipality,” Gumilab stated.

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