EMS Health & Safety

This run information is from Assistant Chief John Ryan, City of Newburgh Fire Department. Something to keep in mind when your struggling for a source.

The video below demonstrates what happens when you cut the high voltage wire in a hybrid car. Interesting, but don't do it. Look at the damage to the high dollar Hurst edraulic cutter blades and the total destruction of the sawzal blade.

Summer is coming to a close and the farm fields will be getting more active again. We've kept this post fairly short with some patient management thoughts, but have included several links below that touch on: haybines, augers, combines, anhydrous ammonia tanks, corn headers, grain bin rescue, and rope systems.

As more and more alternative fueled vehicles hit the road, we still haven’t really seen an industry standard that identifies these vehicles easily for first responders.  Little hybrid, propane, or CNG stickers on the trunk or fender can be hard to see at night and/or destroyed during a crash.  The tale is similar when talking about school buses.  Take for ...

Let me first start this post out with a question...Have you ever stretched before a fire department training as a group? Prior to this past Saturday, my answer would have been, NO.