The Benedict Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad Inc. attended an ice rescue class this month along with Tenth District Fire Department and Cobb Island Fire Department. The class was taught by Dive Rescue International and hosted at the Charles County Dive Team Station 13. After a short class room session the class headed down to Sweden Point located on the Potomac River where the class then suited up to practice life saving drills through approximately 4 inchs of ice. The members had to do exercises from trying to pull their own self out of the water to getting in behind a victim, packaging them up and giving the awaiting team on shore the signal to pull both the rescuer and the victim out of the water and to safety. At the conclusion of the class Benedict had 15 new Ice Rescue Specialist including Chief 5 " R. HILL", Chief 5B " A. RUSLANDER", Cpt.5 " A.STEPHENS", Lt. 5 " B.WHITE" , M.RUSLANDER, C.HYATT, S.CLEM, N.RUSLANDER, D.HUTCHINS, D.ARENDS, B.THERRES, W.PEAPER, F.GRIFFEN, B.GRIFFEN, J.HIGGS.
