Staff of the Durango Fire Protection District conducted a simulated ice rescue and cold-water drowning exercise last week on Turner Lake in Falls Creek. Leo Lloyd, an EMS training captain, said the department does an annual training so that medical and rescue workers can perform real-time, realistic scenarios. The training includes simulating multiple people who have broken through ice on a pond or lake. Lloyd said the exercise not only helped train for an ice rescue but also gave medical and rescue staff the opportunity to perform a full pediatric cold water drowning resuscitation in the back of an ambulance using realistic mannequins and other props. “Incorporating complex scenario-based exercises is just one of the many ways DFPD provides productive EMS and fire training to our staff,” Lloyd said. “Many thanks to the Falls Creek Subdivision for allowing us the opportunity to do this.”