Press Release:

Joint Training of DLRG Rescue Swimmers and German Red Cross

When someone meets with an accident at sea, they have to be rescued as fast and as efficiently as possible. That was the aim of a joint training of the volunteers of the German DLRG rescue swimmers and of the German Red Cross from Blomberg at the Schieder lake

On August 11, we supported the Lippe county DLRG at their training day at the Schieder lake with an emergency ambulance. The most important factor was to provide medical care in an emergency and transferring the patient to the Emergency Medical Service.

On August 17, the lesson was for us. Directed by DLRG coaches Christian Masopust, Joerg Mengedoht and Stefan Bobert, we tried several possibilities of getting someone out of the water and learned how to get the patient to land as gently as possible with a life boat. During this lesson, the most important aim was again to improve working hand in hand – because at a certain point during the rescue process, the patient will have to be transferred from the sea rescue team to us (the land rescuers) in order to provide further medical care. This transfer and the collaboration has to run as smoothly as possible for the patient, and this also includes understanding how the respective other rescue organisation works.

An unexpected interlude of the training was a real DLRG assignment on the otherwise quiet Schieder lake: One of the canoes of a youth group had capsized and the DLRG rescue swimmers were able to get the three uninjured teenagers out of the water into the life boat and drag their canoe to shore. Our team supported the rescue swimmers during this operation.

So we could see again that the two rescue organisations can work together very well. In the past, we have already had several joint assignments, e.g. the ”Schieder Lake in Flames” festival and several open-air concerts as well as the Opel friends’ meeting: A good collaboration that will be continued.