 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. With 40 years of being in the hearing care industry, you'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. On Tuesday, October 3rd, the Pikeville Fire Department completed their annual Rope Rescue Training in downtown Pikeville. Each member of the department was given a refresher course on different types of ropes and knots before putting it to the test in a live scenario. The scenario training itself takes a full eight-hour day to complete. All of these guys have had rope rescue before and this is a refresher to that and we try to update our tactics to make sure that we're up to the most safe standard, most up-to-date standards. So yes, within two weeks everyone has started off with all the basics, went through that again, practiced it in a non-life safety environment where we don't have any high stakes or anything. We'll take our time, go through it, make sure we know all of our basics and then again, this is our scenario day where we're actually just like we would get called out in real life, we're setting it up and going through it today. That way we're more prepared for when that call comes out. The fire department works at a steady pace to ensure that the safety of the members and anyone in need of rescue is prioritized. Their goal is to avoid making any mistakes whatsoever. Yeah, it is a little bit of a slower paced rescue but it has to be that way because we can't make any mistakes in this situation specifically because we're working in a high-angle environment which means the only thing keeping that rescuer and the victim from crashing to the ground is those systems. So we work on the crawl, walk, run method with anything with the fire service so this is more of our running where we're actually putting that into place. Everything that we've learned up to this point and we're setting these systems up and doing it at real time. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Colum.