THOSE GUYS ARE GOOD.....SIERRA MADRE COLTS TAKE SUPER REGION! ..Page 10 SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2013 Inside this week: VOLUME 7 NO. 30 SIERRA MADRE COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (CERT) RECEIVES A GIFT Calendar Page 2 Sierra Madre News Page 3 Local government prepares for everyday emergencies. However, during a disaster, the number and scope of incidents can overwhelm conventional emergency services. The Sierra PASADENA/ALTADENA Madre Community Emergency Response SGV Journalist Janette Pg. 4 Team (CERT) helps in those situations in Williams Dies three main ways. First, there is an education program in which the public is made aware AROUND SGV Pg. 5 of how to prepare for emergencies and be FIRST ANNUAL HOMICIDE self-sufficient. Secondly, CERT conducts a SUMMIT FEMA recognized all-risks and all-hazards training program designed to help a person protect themselves, their family and ARCADIA NEWS Pg. 6 their neighbors in an emergency situation. Assemblyman Ed Chau To Speak And lastly, Sierra Madre CERT, under the sponsorship and direction of the Sierra Madre Fire Department, directly supports MONROVIA/DUARTE the first responders when they are in need of further assistance. WWI Medals Pg. 7 To help accomplish this mission, Gary Hood Returned To Family has generously donated a support trailer to the Sierra Madre CERT. Perhaps you saw it at EDUCATION & YOUTH the Fourth of July parade. The trailer will be Local Students In The Pg. 8 furnished with an assortment of equipment, Spotlight emergency supplies and also serve as an operational facility. FOOD & DRINK Pg.9 To further educate the community the Sierra Madre CERT conducts monthly meetings is which there is a CERT training session. This SPORTS Pg. 10 Sierra Madre Resident and retired Firefighter Gary Hood (Center) gives the keys to the trailer to CERT President is on the fourth Thursday at 0700PM at the DeAlcorn. Photo by Dave Felt SM Colts Take Super Region Hart Park House. All are welcome. Also the Sierra Madre CERT is conducting • Emergency Medical Operations-one • Fire Extinguisher Training BEST FRIENDS Pg. 11 a basic CERT class. The class starts August 17 and victim • Course Review and Disaster Exercise is open to all. • Emergency Medical Operations-Triage • Light Search and Rescue Operations For more information see the flyer elsewhere in THE GOOD LIFE Pg. 12 The class covers: • CERT Organization today’s MVN or go to www.SierraMadreCERT.org Savvy Senior • Disaster Preparedness • Disaster Psychology or [email protected]. Senior Happenings • Fire Safety • Terrorism BUSINESS Pg. 13 Sierra Madre Search and Rescue Log HEALTHY LIVING THE KING WAS HERE! The Sierra Madre Search and Rescue hikers who were lost in the Mount The “King”, aka Elvis, aka Harry Shahoian impersonating the original, left his Pg. 14 (SMSR) Team responded to eighteen Wilson area and reportedly suffering throne in Las Vegas and, under the auspices of the Sierra Madre Rotary Club, individual calls for assistance in June from dehydration and exhaustion. performed at last week’s Concert In The Park. As always, he had the packed with operations taking place not Due to limited information about the house rocking! Sierra Madre’s Concerts in the Park is sponsored this year by ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT only in the local Sierra Madre area, specific location of the hikers, search The Kensington - the assisted living facility being built on Sierra Madre Blvd. Pg. 15 but including the high Sierra and crews were dispatched to multiple and local service organizations who sponsor the music. This week’s concert Thousand Palms. locations to hike the trails and locate will feature Jane Fuller and company performing Pop Across the Decades. and the subjects. Los Angeles County Left Turn/Right Turn/ Injured Hiker, First Water Trail, is sponsored by Friends of the Library and The Sierra Madre Kiwanis Club. Sheriff’s deputies were able to locate Photo by Fred Thomas/MVNews Opinon Pg. 16 Chantry Flat: On June 13th at 3:15 the hiker’s car near the trailhead at p.m., SMSR was paged for a cliff rescue Cobb Estates and teams began to focus at Chantry Flat. The team was joined their efforts in that area. While search LEGAL NOTICES Pg. 17 by the Sierra Madre Fire Department crews were redeploying, a rescue call and Los Angeles County Fire to rescue in Eaton Canyon was dispatched and a hiker who had fallen off the trail and 7 personnel from SMSR responded to PUBLIC NOTICES was stranded in steep terrain above Eaton Canyon to assist in the rescue the canyon bottom. SMSR personnel Pg. 21 of 3 hikers stranded near the 2nd quickly established a high angle rope waterfall. SMSR joined LA County rescue system and sent rescuers Fire and LASD’s Air Rescue 5 on the FYI Pg. 22 approximately 120’ over the side to incident. Two of the subjects were access the hiker. After determining hoisted from their location by Air that his injuries were minor, rescuers 5 and the third subject was lowered used the rope rescue system to lower by rope rescue system to the canyon the hiker and rescuers the remaining bottom by SMSR. The subjects were (approx.) 150’ feet to the canyon uninjured and escorted out of the bottom. The rescue was completed at canyon. During the Eaton Canyon 5:40 p.m. rescue the missing Mt. Wilson hikers Search, Thousand Palms, Riverside were successfully located. One of the County: SMSR was requested at 9 p.m. hikers was transported to the hospital on June 29th by the California Office for treatment. The operations were of Emergency Services (OES) for a secured by 4:30 p.m. mutual aid call in Riverside County to Combined with the search in Riverside assist in the search for a missing hiker. County, SMSR was in continuous SIERRA MADRE TEENS AND TREASURES – Daytime temperatures in the area were operation for 17 hours on the 29th and Teen History Docents 120 degrees and officials planned to 30th. run search operations through the Sierra Madre local history will get a big coordinator who will recruit and train night. SMSR personnel responded Missing Hiker, Inyo County: SMSR boost with a new grant just received by the teens. The volunteer docents will give and were deployed on initial search assisted with the continued search for the Sierra Madre Public Library. The grant “tours” of local history using the new of $7,500 will enable the Library to train Digital Storyboards. assignments by 11:30 p.m. Field crews a hiker missing since October 2012 in teen volunteers as history docents using Five teens at a time will train and give worked throughout the night looking the Sierra near Independence. The new Digital Storyboard technology at the tours during a five-week period. A total for the missing 71 year old hiker. The hiker’s camp was located along with Library’s Local History Room and at the of 25 teens will be part of the program www.facebook.com/ man was located mid-morning on evidence that he died nearby during Richardson House museum. Recruiting during the grant period, then the library mountainviewsnews the 30th, but unfortunately had not the fierce winter storm that trapped and training of teens will begin in will continue the program after the grant survived the conditions. The team him 7 miles from his car. September. period ends. expresses our condolences to his ____________________ The California State Library awarded Library Director Carolyn Thomas said, family and friends. For over 60 years the all-volunteer funding of the grant titled “Sierra Madre, “We are delighted to share our city’s rich Sierra Madre Search and Rescue Teens and Treasures – Teen History local history collection with more people Multiple Calls, Chantry Flat, Mount team has been responding to calls Docents.” The grant will expand the through the Digital Storyboards and are Wilson Trail and Eaton Canyon: June Library’s summer teen volunteer program pleased that we can expand our summer for help in the local mountains and into a year-round program by training volunteer program throughout the year. It’s 30th would turn out to be a busy day beyond. Funded entirely by private for SMSR with a series of operations teens as docents. a great combination of resources.” donations, SMSR provides a range of First step will be to hire a part-time taking place throughout the day. The public programs on wilderness safety first call for the day came at 11:30 a.m. in addition to its search and rescue SATURDAY AFTERNOON CAFE SOUNDS with reports of a hiker stranded over activities. The Team never charges for the side of the trail below Chantry any of its services. Picture a lazy summer with Saturday Afternoon traci kato-kiriyama and Flat. A high angle rescue was executed afternoon with a coolCafé Sounds at 4:00 p.m. musician Liane Tominaga. comfortable spot, soft Chill to light acoustic The Sierra Madre Public to get the uninjured hiker back to the For more information, including trail. As the rescue was concluding, music, a little poetry, and music with the Summer Library is located at 440 W. how to arrange a wilderness safety a good book. Then picture Reading Program theme of Sierra Madre Blvd. in the SMSR received a request from demonstration for your school or group, yourself relaxing this Reading is So Delicious! city of Sierra Madre, 91024, Altadena Mountain Rescue (AMRT) visit www.smsr.org. Saturday, July 27 in the The programs will feature (626) 355-7186, www. to assist them in the search for two Sierra Madre Public Library a spoken word artist cityofsierramadre.com. Read The Paper Online At: www.mtnviewsnews.com 2 Mountain View News Saturday, July 27, 2013 CALENDAR Weather5-Day Forecast Wise Sierra Madre, Ca.