Crawford County Rescue Squad

10/07/2025

Sheriff Rutan, along with fire officials, are lifting the county-wide burn ban effective immediately. Please continue to be vigilant with any open fires.

10/03/2025

Due to continued high temperatures and lack of rain, Sheriff Rutan and local fire officials, have decided to once again place a county-wide burn ban effective immediately. We will post when the ban is lifted. Please pass along. Thank you!

09/24/2025

09/22/2025

Crawford County Rescue divers and tenders conducted training this afternoon. We worked on body recovery techniques. We trained on the use of a body recovery bag using scenarios from previous deployments. Additional training was done on the paperwork required during body recoveries. We would like to thank the Turners for allowing us to use there pit for training!

09/14/2025

Crawford County Rescue conducted our annual night dive training. The goal of this training is to prepare us in case we get called to a dive incident at night. The recently certified shore responders expanded on their skills and learned the difficulty of dives at night. We would like to thank the Turners for allowing us to dive in their pit. It is greatly appreciated.

09/13/2025

Crawford County Rescue will be conducting our yearly night dive training tonight at Turners pit.

09/10/2025

Crawford County is under a burn ban at this time!

08/17/2025

Today 7 of our members took the Shore Responder class. They learned how to set up a diver’s gear properly, rope techniques, how to document scenes and other information to aid in a successful dive operation. We would like to thank Terry Trueblood, Commander of Effingham Dive Team, for coming over and teaching the class.

06/29/2025

At 5:28pm last night, Crawford County Rescue was called to assist Jasper County with possible drowning, multiple victims. Squad responded with boats and our dive team was deployed. We were on scene til 11:34pm.
We would like to thank all Jasper County 1st responders and Vincennes Township Fire Department dive team who were on scene to assist us. And many thanks to the businesses and individuals who donated food and drinks while we were there.
No other information about the incident will be posted. Please respect the privacy of those involved. Any inappropriate comments or questions will be deleted.

06/28/2025

Today Rescue conducted dive/extrication training. First, we searched a pond for a vehicle. Once we found the vehicle we did a mock rescue of a mannequin that was in the vehicle. We did site sketches and measurments of the scene. We then pulled the vehicle from the pond. Once on land, we switched to extrication training. Thanks to Shane Langley for the use of his pond. Photos courtesy of Megan Langley.

04/26/2025

Our dive team conducted training this morning at the lake at Oblong Park. We went through basic rope techniques. Then our divers practiced maze anchor training which includes divers entering the water from the boat and working patterns around the maze anchor. This also gave our dive tenders a chance to do their work from the boat rather than the shoreline. Team members who maneuvered the boat also got a little practice on the sonar.
We are very thankful to the Village of Oblong for allowing us to train at the park.

04/26/2025

PSA: Today starting sround 9am Crawford County Rescue Dive Team will be conducting dive training at the Oblong Lake. The park will be open as usual. The public is welcome to come watch if you would like. We just ask that you please keep the roads open and stay safely back aways. Once again this is just training.