Here is a story of a rider and a horse that were saved in a Dakota County Park in Minnesota, because of those blue USNG signs. Here is an excerpt from the story with a link to the rest of the article: It wasn’t a typical 911 call: last fall, a horseback rider wandered into […]
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It wasn’t a typical 911 call: last fall, a horseback rider wandered into Whitetail Woods Regional Park and became lost. Then his horse fell through a boardwalk and got stuck in the mud.
The caller reported his location using an eight-digit number found on a nearby trail post. First responders located him quickly and saved the horse, said Randy Knippel, geographic information system manager for Dakota County.
For Knippel, it’s a success story demonstrating the value of emergency location markers, a system he’s encouraged county parks to implement.
Link to the Startribune article Erin Sadler here.
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