With a little help from Ontario Mine Rescue (OMR), a 
student mine rescue team from the University of British Columbia (UBC) placed first in the underground event and in incident command to finish second overall at the 2015 Intercollegiate Mine Emergency Response Development (MERD) exercise at the Colorado School of Mines.
The team, from the UBC department of mining also placed second in first aid and third in the technician competition at the third biennial intercollegiate competition at the Colorado school’s experimental mine in Idaho Springs, Colorado.
The student-run team travelled from British Columbia to Ontario to train for five days at the Sudbury Mine Rescue Station prior to the competition, and was coached by Timmins District Mine Rescue Officer/Consultant Danny Taillefer. While in Sudbury they also received training and scenario-based instruction from members of the Vale East Mines 2014 Ontario Mine Rescue Provincial championship team, Lorne Plouffe and Perry Simon.
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