AL HR324

Honors and commends the Etowah County Rescue Squad for rescue efforts on Big Wills Creek on April 25, 2015, where 25-year-old kayaker Dakota Brett Crandall was lost in rain-swollen waters near a dam off Brooke Avenue in Etowah County, Alabama

Documents that two rescue squad boats capsized while conducting search and dragging operations, leaving nine squad members in the water, with one member losing his life vest

Recognizes that squad member Vicky Ryan, a 46-year-old wife and mother, tragically died from injuries sustained during the rescue mission; five other members were relatively uninjured and three of four hospitalized members were released

Names 29 Etowah County Rescue Squad members including Captain Mike Bettis and lists them individually as part of the commendation

Conveys the Alabama House of Representatives' admiration and appreciation for the squad's valor and exemplification of the highest ideals of caring and heroism