The US Army Corp is needed in Colorado

Damaged roads and bridges (click here) have left hundreds of people stranded in small towns in Colorado. The Colorado National Guard is using helicopters to rescue people, but more bad weather has made flying difficult.

 The state needs pontoon bridges and Humvees. The Humvees need to be equipped with First Responders with radio link to a hospital.There is no sense in wasting anymore time, if people are alive they are dehydrating already.

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1st Armored Division soldiers work towards completion of a pontoon bridge over the Sava River as a tug boat moves a piece of pontoon bridge into place. The bridges are needed to replace the destroyed bridges so the Implementation Force (IFOR) troops may enter into Bosnia.
Photo by 2Lt. Stacey Wyzykowski 1st Combat Camera Charleston AFB SC

Some pontoon bridges can be very rudimentary in order to achieve rescues. 

 







Some can even be walkways as long as they can be secured from rapids and white water.

Oddly enough the more rudimentary the bridge, the quicker it can be fashioned. The US Army Corp can speak to the current technology and the expediency of the deployment in order to gain access to save lives.

Rescue rafts and life rafts can provide a bridge between civilization and stranded people.