Rescue Rob

Just wanted to stop in and let you all know that we just sent the Rescue Squads 50th Anniversary T-Shirts to the printers and the USA7S.org logo is being printed on the back as one of the sponsors. Thanks again for thinking of us .... Rescue Rob

I dont agree with the thinking that the " road " is in tennessee and the "tourism" is in NC so that is why the LEOS dont like it. Tennesse gets alot of " tourist" money IE The Honda Hoot... I can tell you from personal experience from being up ther almost every day , that the ones abusing the speed on that road are the Motorcyclist that are perdominatly from out of state. The weekend of the fatalities were people from out of state that didnt respet that road and paid for it withtheir life. the one involving the 3wheeler was driving that and lost control going around a turn and hit a 5000 lb boat and knocked it off the trailer ripping the winch cable off the boat. it takes alot of force to rip a winch cable off a boat. When i respond to calls up there im usually driving a fairly large Rescue truck and i can tell you its NOT easy to keep in one lane, especially when im trying to get there to hopefully save someones life. I personally dont like to have to drive the dragon over 30 MPH but unfortunatly when i go up there i dont have a choice... someones life could be at stake and the " golden Hour" is ticking away All i ask is please be safe , and obey the speed limits , they are there for a reason

I agree with you all to a point. there are alot of LEOS out there that are just giving everyone a hard time because they dont want to pull dragon duty. Ive seen first hand way too many times, how the motorcycles have total disrespect for that road and like to take it as fast and as wreckless as possible. Out of all the calls ive responded to id say 90% involve a motorcycle , ( mostly the crotch rockets) and the few calls i HAVE been to up there that involved cars were usually either caused by a motorcycle , or an 18 wheeler trying to take that road as a shortcut. The speed limit used to be 50 mph which meant the motorcycles drove it at 80 or 90, they dropped it to 30 mph so it has helped cut the speed down to 50 or 60

Just a quick update .... I wanted to thank Al for getting me the logo so quickly. I was able to get it to the printer in time and it will now be forever on the back of our 50th anniversary T-Shirt as a proud sponser... plus hopefully it will generate some hits on this website .... The logo that is going on it is the USA7s.org

I hear ya there ... those are soem cool cars y'all have there. The pic you sent us is getting framed and hung up in our squad house

well i would be honered to meet you I personally worked the wrecks you were refering to. like i said id like the chance to meet people under good circumstances

Dear Members My names Lt Rob Moles, I am one of the officers for the Blount County Rescue Squad here in East Tennessee. I wanted to send a very sincere "Thank You" to all of the members of the group for the Photo and donation you collected from your ride to the "DRAGON" on July 6 - 8th 2007 Being an all volunteer Rescue agency here in Blount County, the members of the Rescue Squad do what we do, because we care about people. The "Dragon" is a beautiful road to drive and there are many wonderful people who ride there, Unfortunatly we usually only get to meet and talk to many of them when its under bad circumstances. When a group such as yours takes the time to think of us and what we do, That is the biggest reward we could get. On September 15th 2007 we will be celebrating our 50th year serving the people of Blount County. We will be having a large "Open House" celebration at our Squad's Main Station as well as the ajacent park next to the squad. We would like to extend an Invitation to anyone from your group that may be in Tennessee on that day to come by and introduce yourself so we can meet you. The day will run from 10 - 5 on Saturday September 15th 2007. We will start with an opening cermony with the presentation and raising of the flags. Senator Finney will be present the squad with a senate resolution proclaming the 50th anniversary. There will be free food and demonstrations of Vehicle Extracations , as well as Technical Rope Rescue Demo's as well as fun things for the kids to do. The Donation we recieved from you will be used to help put this event on. Its groups like yours that are making this day possible. we Hope to see you if your in town that day Again i wantto thank you for the donation Lt Rob Moles Blount County Rescue Squad www.BCRS.org