The Cherokee County Saddle Club presented Cherokee County Fire & Emergency Services with a new Becker Sling at the Garland Mountain Horse and Hiking Trails. The Becker Sling assist firefighters during a technical large animal emergency rescue and is a simple vertical lift system designed for short rescue evolutions extracting large animals that may have fallen into holes, ditches, swimming pools, and any other location where it is necessary to lift the animal in order to place them in a safer location. Special Operations Chief, Darrell Mitchell said, This is another piece of equipment to enhance our large animal rescue abilities. Presently, Cherokee County Fire and Emergency Services have twelve plus firefighters that have received large animal rescue training.