If you see seatbelt airbags in any vehicle make sure you identify where the gas cylinders are at. In this case the cylinders are right where we would be tunneling in an under-ride scenario.
Read More »Extrication Tool Wraps / Bucket
Everyone doesn't have to load down their turnout gear with tools for vehicle extrication. These simple wraps/bucket can be deployed by the officer or designated member of the crew at working extrications.
Read More »Hand Stuck In A Floor Drain Prop
Each unit will have their own prop to train with next week. Below are pictures of the assembly.
Read More »Roller Prop – Hand Entrapment
Grant Light and the crew on Rescue 9 in Cincinnati was at it again. They built a roller prop that entraps a hand.
Read More »Indoor Radio Tower Prop
Grant Light and his crew from Cincinnati Fire Heavy Rescue 9 put a little work into making this old scrap steel into a great indoor training prop.
Read More »Hydraulic Tool Control
We are like surgeons with big tools often working around people parts.
Read More »Firefighter Jenga
A challenging hydraulic tool training.
Read More »Lifting and Moving Rat Maze
Andrew Brassard made a maze prop that weighs a couple hundred pounds. The idea is to use pry bars, airbags, wedges, cribbing, rabbit tools, spreaders, and other tools to manipulate the box and get a small ball from one end to the other.
Read More »Estimating Concrete Weight
Cincinnati Rescue 9 Lt. Grant Light has the mic last month in the Heavy Rescue class at BGSU State Fire School.
Read More »Protestor Extrication Training
Henrico Fire doing a protestor extrication training. Just another all-hazards response we may run on. Notice they involved the donut marshals. Us recliner jockeys have to be on the same page with our law enforcement counterparts in these scenarios. Solid training.
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