SUU student aviators take to the skies to help law enforcement

SUU student aviators take to the skies to help law enforcement

(SUU Aviation Program via St. George News)


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ST. GEORGE — Southern Utah University’s aviation program is setting the benchmark for aerial support assistance programs across the country as students take to the skies sporting night-vision technology when calls go out for help.

The SUU aviation program assists law enforcement agencies and first responders in various functions, including search and rescue operations, early identification of wildfires, crime scene aerial photography and first responder assistance to Intermountain LifeFlight crews.

This is made possible by the fact that most of the top-level management in the university’s aviation program are also deputies in the Iron County Sheriff’s Office’s Air Operations Division.

The service the aviation program provides was illustrated in the recent rescue of a missing 6-year-old child that wandered off while shed hunting in Iron County.

During the search, an SUU flight instructor assisted in the nine-hour mission that ended when search teams on the ground located the child and returned him to his family.

Aviation program Executive Director Michael Mower said he looks at the program’s aerial support during such events as a community service.

To read the full story, visit St. George News.

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