ToTheRescue
Junior Member

About ToTheRescue

Biography:

My name is Chris and I am a 29 year old native of the Seattle area. I've recently spent the last few years in Southwest Virginia and have moved back to the Northwest for a comfy desk job in an IT incident command center for a tiny tech company (msft). As such, I have a lot more time to spend scouring the interwebs between incidnets and I pretty quickly wound up here at WSF.

I grew up in the Cascades hiking, camping, skiing, cycling, swimming, and all other manner of outdoorsy things. I led a sheltered childhood and my parents never let me have video games, so unlike much of my generation, I spent my youth in the woods building shelters and learning about plants and animals.

I became very interested in Search and Rescue when I joined Civil Air Patrol at the age of 12, and it quickly consumed my life. I became very passionate about outdoor survival and have been a lifelong learner ever since. I went on to get my EMT-B, BA in Homeland Security, and landed a job with Washington State working professionally in Air Search and Rescue. One of my responsibilities in this position included instruction of aircrew survival schools and managing ground search and rescue teams.

Since then, I have worked in Emergency/Disaster management roles for a number of different government, NGO, Fire Department, and corporate organizations across the US, including continuing to serve as a Coast Guard reservist.

Location:

Issaquah, WA

Interests:

Search and Rescue, Survival Instruction, Backpacking, Hiking, Cycling

Occupation:

Incident Command, Emergency & Disaster Management