Junction City firefighters and the Geary County Sheriff’s Department recently participated in water rescue training with other agencies.

Fire Chief Terry Johnson said the open water rescue techniques could be used during flooding situations or during an incident at Milford Lake. The University of Kansas Fire Rescue Training Institute also sent representatives to help with the training. “We worked with different tools that we have, different boats, jet ski, different rafts plus a lot of rope work. When you’re trying to rescue someone out of the river ropes are probably one of the primary things you do.”

The training was conducted on the Republican River channel near Grant Avenue and at the pond location behind Beacon Marine.