Havre Fire Department receives specialized rescue training

The Havre Fire Department is in the midst of a week-long training about rescuing people from buildings and confined spaces using ropes and pulley systems with the help of Glacier Rescue Solutions.

Members of the department practiced Thursday extracting dummy patients using MacKenzie Hall at Montana State University-Northern, first lowering a department member from the roof of the building to the ground, extracting the patient and then lifting the rescuer back up again.

Havre Fire Chief Nathan Courtnage said it takes a lot of people to do all of this, with teams of firefighters operating the li...