Photo Gallery: Local agencies train for mountain rescue

Altadena Mountain Rescue Team member Alexia Joens (cq) directs the rope handlers as they bring up a “victim” during multi-agency “over-the-side” high angle, technical rescue exercise on Angeles Crest Highway in the Angeles National Forest on Friday, April 26, 2013. About 100 personnel from different local agencies participated, including some from the L.A. Co. Sheriff Montrose Search & Rescue Team, Altadena MRT, L.A. County Fire Depts. from La Canada Flintridge and Pico Rivera along with Air Rescue 5, and the U.S. Forest Service.   (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Members of the Montrose Search & Rescue Team are dropped over the side of Air Rescue 5 during multi-agency “over-the-side” high angle, technical rescue exercise on Angeles Crest Highway in the Angeles National Forest on Friday, April 26, 2013. About 100 personnel from different local agencies participated, including some from the L.A. Co. Sheriff Montrose Search & Rescue Team, Altadena MRT, L.A. County Fire Depts. from La Canada Flintridge and Pico Rivera along with Air Rescue 5, and the U.S. Forest Service.   (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Members of the Montrose Search & Rescue Team prepare to bring up a “victim” during multi-agency “over-the-side” high angle, technical rescue exercise on Angeles Crest Highway in the Angeles National Forest on Friday, April 26, 2013. About 100 personnel from different local agencies participated, including some from the L.A. Co. Sheriff Altadena Mountain Rescue Team, MS&RT, L.A. County Fire Depts. from La Canada Flintridge and Pico Rivera along with Air Rescue 5, and the U.S. Forest Service.   (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

As an L.A. County Fire Dept. helicopter lands, members of the L.A. County Fire Dept. Pico Rivera Station bring up a “victim” during multi-agency “over-the-side” high angle, technical rescue exercise on Angeles Crest Highway in the Angeles National Forest on Friday, April 26, 2013. About 100 personnel from different local agencies participated, including some from the L.A. Co. Sheriff Montrose Search & Rescue Team, Altadena MRT, L.A. County Fire Depts. from La Canada Flintridge and Pico Rivera along with Air Rescue 5, and the U.S. Forest Service.   (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Members of the Altadena Mountain Rescue Team bring up a “victim” during multi-agency “over-the-side” high angle, technical rescue exercise on Angeles Crest Highway in the Angeles National Forest on Friday, April 26, 2013. About 100 personnel from different local agencies participated, including some from the L.A. Co. Sheriff Montrose Search & Rescue Team, Altadena MRT, L.A. County Fire Depts. from La Canada Flintridge and Pico Rivera along with Air Rescue 5, and the U.S. Forest Service.   (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Members of the Montrose Search & Rescue Team bring up a “victim” during multi-agency “over-the-side” high angle, technical rescue exercise on Angeles Crest Highway in the Angeles National Forest on Friday, April 26, 2013. About 100 personnel from different local agencies participated, including some from the L.A. Co. Sheriff Altadena Mountain Rescue Tean, L.A. County Fire Depts. from La Canada Flintridge and Pico Rivera along with Air Rescue 5, and the U.S. Forest Service.   (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Firefighters from the L.A. County Fire station 282 in La Canada Flintridge prepare a basket for rescue during multi-agency “over-the-side” high angle, technical rescue exercise on Angeles Crest Highway in the Angeles National Forest on Friday, April 26, 2013. About 100 personnel from different local agencies participated, including some from the L.A. Co. Sheriff Montrose Search & Rescue Team, Altadena MRT, L.A. County Fire Depts. from La Canada Flintridge and Pico Rivera along with Air Rescue 5, and the U.S. Forest Service.   (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Members of the Altadena Mountain Rescue Team along with other local agencies prepared for a multi-agency “over-the-side” high angle, technical rescue exercise on Angeles Crest Highway in the Angeles National Forest on Friday, April 26, 2013. About 100 personnel from different local agencies participated, including some from the L.A. Co. Sheriff Montrose Search & Rescue Team, Altadena MRT, L.A. County Fire Depts. from La Canada Flintridge and Pico Rivera along with Air Rescue 5, and the U.S. Forest Service.   (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Members of the Montrose Search & Rescue Team, center, L.A. County Fire Dept., left, and the U.S. Forest Service, right,bring up a “victim” during multi-agency “over-the-side” high angle, technical rescue exercise on Angeles Crest Highway in the Angeles National Forest on Friday, April 26, 2013. About 100 personnel from different local agencies participated, including some from the L.A. Co. Sheriff Altadena Mountain Rescue Team, L.A. County Fire Depts. from La Canada Flintridge and Pico Rivera along with Air Rescue 5, and the U.S. Forest Service.   (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)