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Show Oiuil flip Patrol: Sauinfl Lives After closing out an impressive year of saving-lives saving-lives in C ivil Air Patrol (CAP) is off to a good start in I9?ti. HI RING 1975 CAP saved the lie of i7 persons through its air search and rescue and other emergency service operations, and by mid-J mid-J anuarv of tins year had al - eady chalked up four sa es CAP s t.rst two saves came New Year's Day when a severe snow storm struck w oming ( AP members used tour-wheel drive vehicles and worked throughout the night and the following dav transporting stranded individuals to safety. FIFTY-SEVEN persons were assisted by CAP during the two days and CAP was credited with saving the lives of two of the people. The Florida Wing was credited with saving the life of a Florida couple missing overnight in a boat Jan 9. Fifteen minutes after taking off the CAP aircraft spotted the boat aground on a shallow bank one and one-half miles east of Gxoa Beach. TU'O SAVES were credited to the wing because the couple had no survival equipment and were suffering from exposure ex-posure as a result of freezing temperatures. |