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FL-TF1 team hosts a Wilderness Training Workshop with the Girl Scouts at Oleta River State Park |
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(MIAMI, Nov. 11, 2022) – Members of Florida Task Force One (FL-TF1), Miami-Dade Fire Rescue’s (MDFR) Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Team, will host a Wilderness Training Workshop with the Girl Scouts on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022 at 9 a.m., at Oleta River State Park. Twenty (20) Girl Scouts from Miami Beach and North and South Dade will get a chance to move outside of their comfort zones during the 4-hour workshop focused on Survival Techniques and First Aid in Wilderness Training. The outdoors has become a priority for the Girl Scouts USA organization and integral to its mission, always striving to make the adventure and journey meaningful, challenging, enjoyable, educational, and safe. While embedded with MDFR’s US&R FL-TF1 at the Oleta River State Park’s primitive wilderness area, the Girl Scouts will be exposed to a range of new and challenging outdoor experiences, which will help them strengthen their survival and outdoor leadership skills, enabling them to engage responsibly with nature throughout their lives. At the end of the skill-building Wilderness Training Workshop, the Girl Scouts will earn some revered badges, including one for “Survival Camper and First Aid,” from this first-time instruction and practical experiences taught by the team members of FL-TF1, who were last deployed to assist in search and rescue efforts following Hurricane Ian on the southwest coast of Florida.
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| Who: | FL-TF1 and the Girl Scouts USA organization | ||
| What: | FL-TF1 team hosts a Wilderness Training Workshop with the Girl Scouts at Oleta River State Park | ||
| When: | November 12, 2022, 9:00 a.m. | ||
| Where: | Oleta River State Park: 3400 NE 163 Street, North Miami Beach, FL 33160 FREE Parking: Please take the first right after the ranger guard house, and then your next left. There’s a camp dirt road that leads to the youth camp in the primitive area where you will find available parking spaces. |
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| Editor's Note: | Media Note: FL-TF1 Team Members, Troop Leaders and Girl Scouts will be available for interviews. Reporters and crew members will have the opportunity to embed with FL-TF1 team members while the Girl Scouts conduct their training at the Oleta River State Park’s primitive wilderness area. Please confirm attendance by email along with the names of crew members who will be attending FL-TF1's Wilderness Training Workshop to [email protected]. For more information, please contact Jill Nolden at 305-433-0427: Community Volunteer Liaison for Troop 1239 and Past President of the VFW Auxiliary Post 3559 Miami Beach. | ||