– Photos by Jennifer A. Cline, writer/magazine editor,
and Christopher J. Leigh, video production coordinator
![Firefighter/Paramedic Mark Taluba, of Anne Arundel County (Md.) Fire Department, leads students through a vehicle rescue at the CAFCA training site. Taluba is a 1999 graduate of Penn College’s environmental technology major.](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2019/08/P1322766_PCTo.jpg)
Firefighter/Paramedic Mark Taluba, of Anne Arundel County (Md.) Fire Department, leads students through a vehicle rescue at the CAFCA training site. Taluba is a 1999 graduate of Penn College’s environmental technology major.
![Paramedic students with their fire department mentors – and a newly rescued “patient.”](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2019/08/P1333042_PCTo.jpg)
Paramedic students with their fire department mentors – and a newly rescued “patient.”
![Carly R. Stahl, a paramedic technician student from Lewisburg, tosses a rescue line to Bambi A. Hawkins, learning laboratory coordinator for the paramedic program.](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2019/08/River-rescue-128_PCTo.jpg)
Carly R. Stahl, a paramedic technician student from Lewisburg, tosses a rescue line to Bambi A. Hawkins, learning laboratory coordinator for the paramedic program.
![Aboard a Williamsport Bureau of Fire rescue boat, piloted by the bureau’s Kenny Smith, fire engineer, students pull classmate Marissa L. Davis from the water. Davis is from Trafford.](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2019/08/River-rescue-183_PCTo.jpg)
Aboard a Williamsport Bureau of Fire rescue boat, piloted by the bureau’s Kenny Smith, fire engineer, students pull classmate Marissa L. Davis from the water. Davis is from Trafford.
![Sarah C. Gagnon, a paramedic technician student from Morris, shares a laugh with her peers at the CAFCA site.](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2019/08/Ropes-rescue-020_PCTo.jpg)
Sarah C. Gagnon, a paramedic technician student from Morris, shares a laugh with her peers at the CAFCA site.
![Anchored by staff from the Williamsport Bureau of Fire, Stahl descends from the fourth floor of the training mock-up.](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2019/08/Ropes-rescue-035_PCTo.jpg)
Anchored by staff from the Williamsport Bureau of Fire, Stahl descends from the fourth floor of the training mock-up.
![Matthew C. Larock, an emergency medical services student from Chemung, N.Y., begins his descent.](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2019/08/Ropes-rescue-051_PCTo.jpg)
Matthew C. Larock, an emergency medical services student from Chemung, N.Y., begins his descent.
![Emergency medical services student Jared A. Stewart, of Waverly, N.Y., gains real-world perspective on high-angle rescues.](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2019/08/Ropes-rescue-068_PCTo.jpg)
Emergency medical services student Jared A. Stewart, of Waverly, N.Y., gains real-world perspective on high-angle rescues.
![Davis secures herself before rappelling from the fourth floor.](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2019/08/Ropes-rescue-074_PCTo.jpg)
Davis secures herself before rappelling from the fourth floor.
![Stewart “learns the ropes.”](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2019/08/Ropes-rescue-082_PCTo.jpg)
Stewart “learns the ropes.”