“Unsung Heroes: Search and Rescue – First Responders – Southern Arizona, 1901-2000” Online History Presentation
November 21 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
On Thursday, November 21, 2024 join Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” Zoom online program featuring “Unsung Heroes: Search and Rescue – First Responders – Southern Arizona, 1901-2000” history presentation by National Park Service Superintendent Emeritus Charles R. “Butch” Farabee, Jr. This free online presentation will be held from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. (ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time).
November 15, 1958: Tucson suffered the second greatest snowfall on record. Three young Boy Scouts tragically perished hiking nearby. Nearly 750 searchers – mostly volunteers – were involved for 19 days, the largest search in Arizona history. Butch Farabee was one of them. How and why did rescue teams first organize in this country? What about regional fire departments and sheriffs’ departments’ first responders? Local ambulance services were first run by funeral homes. Paramedics came on the scene with what popular 1970s TV show? The Civil Air Patrol began a week before Pearl Harbor, saving hundreds of thousands since. Military and hospital medivac services started in 1947. Life-saving results came of Titan missiles and the Border Patrol. When and where did “911” begin, and Why Arizona’s “Stupid Motorists’ Law”? This program is based on Butch’s recently finished 599-page book, which is FREE, digital, and online.
To register for the Zoom webinar go to https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VSALZFjKQqmYSH3M0RQ3Tw. For more information contact Old Pueblo at info@oldpueblo.org or 520-798-1201.
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Caption: 1958 headlines of Tucson’s Morning Newspaper