Patricia Wagner

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Pat Wagner is the owner of Mountain Rope Safety Courses (MRSC), a small school located on the Cumberland Plateau near Chattanooga, TN. She is the lead instructor for MRSC & has a B.S. Degree in Fire & Safety Engineering, was a former search & recue team leader, firefighter, EMT-IV. & served as a principal committee member on the N.F.P.A. 1006 Standard for Rescue Technician Professional Qualifications. She celebrates over 30 years volunteering with Waldens Ridge Emergency Service, as well as, working as an American Registered Radiologic Technologist for over 30 years. Pat has been teaching rope rescue skills professionally for over 25 years in the U.S.A. and Central America. 

 Sherman Ford is a career Paramedic with Hamilton County Emergency Medical Service since 2002 and Captain with Walden's Ridge Emergency Service, a 100% volunteer "all hazards" response agency on Walden's Ridge in southeast Tennessee. Sherman has been assisting with rope  rescue instruction at Mountain Ropes Safety Courses since 2014.  He began his adventure in the vertical world as a recreational rock climber in the  1980s with the Boy Scouts of America earning his Rock Climbing and Rappelling Merit badges and continuing through high school as founding member of Red Bank High School's Rock Climbing  and Rappelling Club. Shortly after joining Walden's Ridge Emergency Service in 2010 he completed Rescue Technician courses.  As an active member  of Walden's Ridge Emergency Service's Rope team he responded whenever available to assist on  any and all calls.  With a couple of years of experience under his belt he began to take the steps necessary to  gain the skills and knowledge necessary to assist in rope rescue training with Pat Wagner at  Mountain Ropes Safety Courses. Mr. Ford has a passion for teaching fellow rescuers as he is an  American Heart Association Basic Life Support Instructor and Tennessee Emergency Medical  Responder instructor. Mr. Ford felt that his experience in teaching and passion for rope work would  lead to a good relationship and opportunity as an instructor with Mountain Rope Safety Courses. Mr. Ford has continued to increase his technical rescue knowledge by Completing Tower  Rescue Technician and Confined Space Rescue Technician. Mr. Ford's particular area of expertise is in patient access, assessment, treatment, and  packaging but he is comfortable teaching any portion of Rope Rescue Awareness, Operation, and  Technician curriculum offered at Mountain Rope Safety Courses as well as tireless work on  developing new and innovative offerings yet to come.