Sunday, April 20, 2014

TICKS: How to prevent tick bites in the bush, and how to remove them





Download US CDC 'Ticks and Lyme Disease' brochure here.

DRONES: Despite finding 11 missing subjects with UAVs, FAA threatens Texas EquuSearch with arrest if they use them

From Click2Houston.com:
HOUSTON -The founder of Texas EquuSearch, Tim Miller, plans to fight the Federal Aviation Administration's attempts to prohibit the use of drones in searches for missing people. Miller said he has hired an attorney and plans to sue if the FAA if it does not back down from a recent order prohibiting the volunteer organization from using the unmanned aircraft in search operations.

"You know, we're not flying in somebody's backyard, looking at their girlfriend laying in their bikini," said Miller.

Miller said he began battling the FAA on this issue two years ago during a search for a missing girl in Indiana. Miller said during that search officials with the FAA told local law enforcement to stop EquuSearch from using a drone.

"The lead investigator said if we even take it out of its case he will arrest us," said Miller....read Click2Houston.com story here.
Source: Peace River K9 Search & Rescue Association, Inc.