Jim Segerstrom 1946-2007 - Technical Rescue Magazine

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ALAN (AL) BANNON It is with immense sadness that we announce the Line of Duty death of our friend and colleague Al Bannon on 7th April 2010. Al was an original member of the Technical Rescue Unit upon who's work this magazine was founded. He was a wholetime firefighter with Hampshire Fire & Rescue Service (UK) and died along with colleague James Shears while tackling a blaze in a high rise block of flats in Southampton. He will be hugely missed by all of us and our heartfelt condolensces go out to Al's wife Charlotte, daughter Abi, Lin and Keith, Mum & Dad and all family and friends.

NOTICEBOARD

ALAN (AL)
BANNON
It is with immense sadness
that we announce the Line
of Duty death of our friend
and colleague Al Bannon
on 7th April 2010.
Al was an original member of
the Technical Rescue Unit
upon who's work this
magazine was founded.
He was a wholetime
firefighter with Hampshire
Fire & Rescue Service (UK)
and died along with colleague
James Shears while tackling
a blaze in a high rise block
of flats in Southampton.
He will be hugely missed by
all of us and our heartfelt
condolensces go out to Al's
wife Charlotte, daughter Abi,
Lin and Keith, Mum & Dad
and all family and friends.

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Jim Segerstrom

Jim Segerstrom 1946-2007

Technical Rescue Magazine Obituary for Jim Segerstrom.

rescue expert, died February 5, 2007 in San Francisco, CA of a cerebral hemorrhage.

He was the founder and formerly Vice President for operations for Rescue 3 International for 21 years and the originator of the Swiftwater Rescue Technician program, which, since its founding, has been taught to nearly 70,000 people in 11 countries. Segerstrom was the Executive Director of Special Rescue Services Group, a consulting and training concern based in Sonora, California, a small community in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. He was also a Managing Director for Canadian/US consortium, World Rescue Services, Inc, which is based in San Rafael, California. Download this Article

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