Soldiers get hands-on rescue training with life-like scenario - News 11 s Arlette Yousif reports
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - Yuma Training Center at Yuma Proving Ground s (YPG) week-long training wraps up with soldiers jumping out of a helicopter and working through a parachute malfunction and an injured jumper but don t worry, it s all staged.
While YPG is often used to train soldiers and equipment for deployment, it s also used to enhance rescue efforts on YPG itself, due to its massive span of desert land. Anything can happen, even during training.
“This is always trying to train realistic as possible because [if] something should happen for real, then we want to be ready for that and that’s what this exercise paints a picture for. Not only my branch chief but bottom line, the YTC commander here on YPG,” says Joe Castillo YPG Test Parachutes Program Manager.
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Gov. Roy Cooper and state health and safety officials provide a Dec. 22, 2020, update on the coronavirus outbreak in North Carolina and the state s response to it.
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North Carolina. As of today, we have had 488,902 total cases. 5255 new cases reported today. 3000 and one people in our hospitals would covert 19, and sadly, there are 6291 people who have died. Our thoughts are with those who have lost loved ones who are fighting this cruel, violent virus. And we know their hearts are heavy during this holiday season. Today, an update to our county alert map reinforces what we already know covered. 19 is spreading rapidly through our state. As of today, 65 counties air designated as red, which means critical community spread 27 counties air labeled orange, which means substantial community spread. This is alarming. 92 of our 100 counties are designated as red or orange. In the last week,
About 85 people gathered at an outdoor ceremony on Dec. 5 to celebrate the dedication and opening of the 1853 Foulks House as a museum that honors one of Elk Groveâs earliest families.
This small, two-story structure, which formerly stood on Elk Grove Boulevard near Bruceville Road, was home to six generations of Foulks family members.
Moved to the Elk Grove Historical Societyâs Heritage Park in Elk Grove Regional Park in 2005, the building underwent a more than $100,000 restoration, which was completed this year.
Built like a barn with no studs or sheer walls to keep it square, this historic house is one of the last remaining early California, single-frame homes.