Civil Defense Rescue Service

Civil Defense
Rescue Service

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I have found very little information about the Civil Defense Rescue Service over the years. I finally got a Federal Civil Defense Admistration manual of Rescue Skills and Techniques originally printed in 1953 with a reprint date of 1958. Until I can dig up some more sources I will use the information from this book for this page of the CD Museum.

Seattle Civil Defense Rescue Service Vehicles

I came across these great photos while searching the Seattle Municipal Archives for some architectural photos. The folks at the archives were good enough to send me large versions of the photos for the CD Museum. I really wish I had the names of the officials in the photos. In the far right photo it's pretty obvious that the two men in uniform are (second from right and right respectively) the Fire Chief and Police Chief. I have no idea who the other 2 men are. I assume that one must be the Civil Defense director. Just click on each photos to see a larger photo.

Civil Defense Rescue Vehicles
Light Duty Civil Defense Rescue Truck

These photos are from the FCDA Rescue Skills and Techniques manual TM-14-1. I will include the inventory list of equipment for each vehicle when I get time to type in the list. The lists for both vehicles are quite extensive.

Heavy Duty Civil Defense Rescue Truck

Civil Defense Rescue Service Organizational Charts

Suggested organization of local rescue service.

Organization of light duty rescue squad chart.

Chain of command-operations.

Organization of heavy duty rescue squad and chain of command-operations chart.

Union County Ohio Rescue Photos

Urbana Plane Crash	Urbana Plane Crash	Urbana Plane Crash
Urbana Plane Crash	Wyandot Plane Crash	Wyandot Plane Crash

Mr. Brad Gilbert Deputy Director of Union County Ohio EMA sent me these photos in March 2004 of their county volunteer rescue service. Some photos have typed captions. I don't have any more information on the photos without captions. Of particular interest is the top center photo of the crew using the CD V-700 and CD V-715. Click on any thumbnail to see the larger photo.