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Fastwater Boom Deployment Tips
Preplanning and training are critical steps towards any successful fast water boom deployment. Learning how to read water will help evaluate conditions and determine what boom strategies are possible. Putting out boom in rivers is difficult at best. Boom is heavy and moving water is deceptively powerful, especially when exerting its force on a section…
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Learn Swiftwater Rescue
Swiftwater Rescue Training WRI will be hosting three more Swiftwater Rescue Classes near Missoula on the Blackfoot River this spring. It’s our home river and our favorite place to teach. Montana River Guides will be hosting the course. Montana River Guides offers Missoula rafting and kayaking trips on the Blackfoot and Clark Fork Rivers. Join us…
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Missoula Swiftwater Rescue Training: Blackfoot River
WRI will be hosting several Swiftwater Rescue Classes near Missoula on the Blackfoot River this spring. It’s our home river and our favorite place to teach. Join us at a discounted price this year. Missoula Swiftwater Rescue Class: April 6-8 Missoula Swiftwater Rescue Class: April 20-22 Missoula Swiftwater Rescue Class: May 11-13 Missoula Swiftwater Rescue…
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Swiftwater Rescue in Costa Rica
EMS and Swiftwater Rescue Training in Costa Rica with Aerie Backcountry Medicine One of the best things about working in the rescue community is getting to work with wonderful people. WRI Instructor Mike Johnston just returned from teaching a swift water rescue class in Costa Rica on the Rio Sevegre as part of Aerie Backcountry…
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Inland Geographic Response Plans: Their Value and Limitations
Inland Geographic Response Plans With the recent push for Inland Geographic Response Plans (GRP), community and responder preparedness is at an all-time high. Most of the major waterways in the west now have plans associated with them. This consolidation of data will undoubtedly make future responses to inland waterways more effective and safe. Fastwater…
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Developing Good Communication
Inland Spill Response: Communications is key. It was 11:30 pm, on a moonless night and the temperature was hovering around 30 degrees Fahrenheit. The river was lit up with an array of floodlights from shore, mixed with the not-so-bright navigation lights from the boats. Our spill response team was split between three boats assisting in…
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Fastwater Spill Resonse
Inland Spill Response: WRI Environmental Fastwater spill response , river spill response and inland oil spill response training are our speciality at WRI Environmental. WRI has comprehensive experience in every aspect of inland spill response. From pre-planning, collecting data and creating Geographic Response Plans -to coordinating multi-agency spill response training and fastwater oil spill response, WRI’s team…
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Inland Oil Spill Response Challenges
Inland Spill Response Inland oil spill response often involves moving water and presents a unique set of challenges for responders. WRI offers state of the art and innovative inland oil spill response training in our Swiftwater Spill Response Technician courses. Responder safety and managing risk during fastwater spill response are our top priority at WRI.…
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Cold Weather Response: Personal Gear
At WRI Environmental we specialize in fastwater spill response and inland spill response training. Last Christmas, I was put on standby for an inland oil spill response and spent over an hour collecting the right personal gear I’d need to be outside on a river in windy 10 degree weather. I was reminded that safely responding…