Yep, you’re right, Bill, It was Ediger’s truck. I remember that Gill Ediger, Terri Treacy, Jerry Atkinson, and I flew down with the truck.
Bill Steele > On May 25, 2018, at 5:22 PM, William R. Elliott <speodes...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That was actually Gill Ediger's truck from Austin, and I drove down from > Harlingen, TX, to help on the rescue. We spent 3 days getting Chris out. He > was shot up with Demarol by a young med student/doctor/caver, who did a good > job taking care of him. Splinted his leg, but at one point Chris had to get > off the backboard and crawl on one side through a tight crawl with his broken > leg on the up side. That was tough to even listen to. I spent a day and a > half chiseling out a low bedrock crawl that I finally could only get through > without my helmet and by exhaling hard and pushing with my toes. We got Chris > back through that one too. Then we rigged him up at the pit entrance with a > rope-hauling fiberglass duffel bag protector over his head, sort of like a > nosecone. Another bad part was rigging his backboard up in the back of a > pickup with cut-up inner tubes like big bungees, but it bounced so hard that > Pete Strickland and I of us couldn't keep it under control and he moaned and > yelled a lot. Then we took him out of that and put him in the back of a > Blazer with a nice foam mattress. That went better. They got him to Texas > where his broken femur was pinned. I think he was back to caving after a few > months. I remember Gill, Pete, several others, but cannot recall all who were > there, sorry. What a deal that was. He was lucky to survive. The Mexican Army > was there and helped by mostly staying out of it. > > William R. (Bill) Elliott > 914 Bannister Drive > Jefferson City, MO 65109 > speodes...@gmail.com > > 573-291-5093 cell > > >> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 5:10 PM, Bill Steele <cwilliamste...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> Tennessee caver Chris Kerr fell in Sistema Purificacion in 1978 and >> fractured his femur. Cavers from Austin drove Terry Sayther’s caving truck >> up into a military C130 cargo plane and were flown to Victoria, Tamps., >> Mexico to rescue him. The spot where he fell is named Kerr Plunk. >> >> Bill Steele >> >> > On May 25, 2018, at 3:57 PM, Geary Schindel <gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org> >> > wrote: >> > >> > Join Us for: Femur Fractures: Practical Effective Traction Splinting for >> > Technical Rescues without the traditional traction splint. >> > >> > >> > >> > [cid:logo-3e1963ed-8174-410d-8ea1-a5439be158af.jpeg] >> > >> > >> > Femur Fractures: Practical Effective Traction Splinting for Technical >> > Rescues without the traditional traction splint. 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