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True Stories
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A Matter of Life, Thanks to SureFire
Most of us have been in emergency situations that were a matter of life or death. Read how SureFire helped tip the balance in these exciting tales.
| Luck of the Irish Bolstered with L1 |
My brother Kevin and I are both part of our local volunteer river-rescue team. For his birthday last year, I bought him a SureFire L1 LumaMax®—it was the perfect gift for an active man like him.
While on patrol one dark, cold evening, we received a call that a local fisherman was in trouble on the water. Within a matter of minutes, Kevin, me, and another volunteer reached the fisherman's small boat, which had beached itself on one of the notorious sand banks dotted around our stretch of river. The fisherman was in obvious distress and informed us that his daughter had fallen overboard prior to beaching the boat. She was wearing her lifejacket, but we knew that, apart from drowning, hypothermia was a real risk. We had to get her out of the water fast.
As we are a volunteer force, our equipment isn't always state of the art, and the spotlight we had on the boat perfectly illustrated this fact. We knew roughly where the girl had hit the water and where the tide would likely have carried her. After 10 minutes of searching, we could hear her calling for help. It was then that the batteries died on the boat's spotlight. To be honest, it was almost comical, except a little girl's life was at stake. Luckily, Kevin had his L1 at hand. That little torch lit up the water for a good distance in front of the boat and straight away illuminated the girl's position. Kevin pulled her from the water, and we took the girl and her father back to the boathouse to get warm.
A few days later, the other volunteer and I both received SureFires from the fisherman as a way to say thanks.
Eoin, M.
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