VIDEO: The Seminole County Fire Department is speeding up response times deep in the woods.
Seminole County— which bills itself as “Florida’s Natural Choice” — is known for its vast amount of parks and trails, and over the past couple of years, the trails have gotten busier, which means first responders are busier trying to rescue hikers, bikers and even horseback riders. But deep in the woods, miles away from a trailhead, that’s a challenge. So now the Seminole County Fire Department has figured out how to find the lost and the hurt faster and better.
Rescue crews are shortening response times on the toughest, most extreme biking trails from hours down to just minutes.
There is only a firetruck and even a rescue-equipped ATV so far that can go into the woods so quite often, firefighters will have to walk, sometimes for miles, down narrow heavily-wooded root-lined trails.