CENTRAL JERSEY TECHNICAL RESCUE TEAM

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CJTRT consists of 24 highly trained volunteers. Members medical qualifications range from CPR to Registered Nurse. CJTRT members have training in the following specialized areas of rescue: High and Steep Angle Rope Rescue, both Urban and Wilderness Search and Rescue and we have 4 canine teams. The team is equipped and able to respond to any type of rescue that requires ropes (i.e.: vertical incidents, slope evacuations, and water incidents.)

 

We are excited to annouce that our Chief - Eric Martin

has been awarded the "Volunteer Leadership" award from The Governor's Office.

Congratulations Chief !

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A special Thanks

to our Danny's Run Sponsors

 

 

 
 

TEAM MEMBER OF THE MONTH
 

 

 

Bud Lavin

  Sartech II

 Bud is a Registered Nurse (RN), Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) and formerly a NJ Mobile Intensive Care Paramedic (MICP). He has been involved in Rescue/EMS on some level since 1985, including 6 years as a NYC*EMS Paramedic. Some of his training for SAR has been FUNSAR, Sartech III & II, ERI's Managing Search Operations, Over The Edge and Ropes That Rescue for technical rope training and Montgomery County, PA Fire Academy Classes. terrain."

The two most amazing rescues that Bud remembers are the Edison Pipeline explosion in 1994 and The Holmdel Search for a missing 10 year old in 2002.

To have something that sounded like an airplane crash less than 10 miles from your home wake you up in the middle of the night as happened at the Edison Pipeline Explosion was incredible. There was a huge amount of property damage and only one fatality, a miracle. We were called in the next AM to assist in searching the ruins of the apartments. It was later that afternoon that all residents were accounted for.  At the Holmdel 2002 search our team spent 3 days during the worst snowstorm in years searching for a 10 year old boy who ran away from his mother. We were the first SAR team on the scene and we quickly set up Search Operations under the authority of the Holmdel Police Department. The beginning of the third day the boy was located, safe, and returned to his grateful family.

 

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