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Collaboration as a Skill Multiplier: Teaming Up With First Responders on Aerial Rescue

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BY ANDREAS ALUIA, CTSP, AND DYLAN PENKETHMAN

It was a perfect summer Saturday in Medford, Massachusetts, a small suburb just west of Boston. Steve Mauras, fire department district chief of neighboring Somerville, was driving by a municipal park while running errands. He glanced at the impressive oak tree that towers over the athletic fields and noticed several people suspended from ropes high up in the canopy.

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