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    American Red Cross trains cross-border team

    American Red Cross trains cross-border team

    Mexican workers to aid response time


    By Angelica Martinez
    UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

    May 17, 2008

    SAN DIEGO – Mexican Red Cross members began training for disaster response in San Diego yesterday to become part of a pioneering cross-border team.

    A group of eight bilingual Mexican Red Cross staff members from Baja California met in Kearny Mesa for classroom-style sessions about the functions of the American Red Cross. The training is scheduled to continue through tomorrow.

    The idea for cross-border teams came from lessons learned during the wildfires in October, said Araceli Gaines, a response associate for the American Red Cross in Imperial Valley.

    At the time, Mexican firefighters who had already been training with firefighters here helped battle the flames near the border.

    The Red Cross hopes the same collaboration can improve and quicken its disaster response along both sides of the border, Gaines said.

    The challenge exists in the way each country has set up its Red Cross operations.

    In Mexico, Red Cross workers function like paramedics 80 percent of the time, said Rigoberto Lozoya Canales, an executive coordinator for the Mexican Red Cross.

    Workers there provide medical aid, transportation to hospitals and other emergency assistance. They are the first responders almost all the time, he said.

    Those daily demands have kept them from obtaining the sort of experience that their counterparts north of the border have.

    In the United States, Red Cross workers deal with “mass careâ€
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    Soon we will all be one big happy third world family
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    I used to cross train with a Mexican volunteer firefighter department, it was a lot of fun and came in handy more than once.
    I'm glad to see this.
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    I have visions of drug cartels and other smugglers using 'official Mexican Red Cross vehicles' to smuggle drugs and illegal aliens across the border.

    Posted by LawEnforcer: Border Angels suspends activities after receiving threats

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    The rescue group for migrants, Border Angels, suspended their activities due to the encounter the past Thursday were they were threatened with firearms by the supposed owners of a property where the activists carried out an operation in search in the area known as Death Valley, in the mountainous zone of Tecate, of the American side..................

    The three vehicles in which the activists travelled, all identifying them as the members of the rescue group and one with a visible insignia of the Red Cross, were stationed under some trees to initiate the search on foot. When they returned, around noon, the armed men were waiting for them..............

    The official that saw them told them that they could not do anything because it was a private land and that the ranchers are in their right to defend their property. The same answer they obtained from the Border Patrol, he mentioned. Death Valley is located some 12 miles to the north of the populated Mexican city of El Hongo, where some reports have located it as a pit stop for drug and human trafficking........
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    hmmmmmmmm..........Border Angels, using a vehicle with a Red Cross insignia, went on private property for a 'search and rescue mission' without seeking the search and rescue assistance of proper authorities? Was it really a pre-arranged pick-up?

    According to the American Red Cross, Border Angels is NOT affiliated with them.
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