Our test results showed that this entire shoring system catastrophically failed (with very little warning) after just a few hundred pounds of force was applied. No where near the 7680 pounds of potential force that this end wall shore was attempting to resist.
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Swift Water Rescue Training – A Few Review Points
Then, over the next 2 days we were in the water covering defensive swimming, throwbags, shallow water crossings, swiftwater rescue boards, 2 and 4 line boat operations, high line boat operations, and victim rescue.
Read More »More Action With the UFO Rigging Cube
Back at the May 2013 BGSU State Fire School while teaching in the heavy rescue class, a group of instructors were passing around some newer pieces of equipment to the rescue world. One was the UFO Rigging Cube.
Read More »Roll-Over Pinning / Lifting / Moving – Thinking With Muscle
When I say thinking with muscle I include your cranium muscle. At last nights training we set-up a roll-over pinning scenario and also moved big blocks. It's not rocket science, but sometimes we could fall into a trap of what is not fastest and safest.
Read More »We Can Learn From The School Transportation Industry
At the end of last year, Ryan Gray (Editor-In-Chief of School Transportation News magazine) contacted me about writing a piece on school bus emergencies and what first responders will do at the scene of a crash. Â Read it HERE. Â Subsequent to that article, I was invited to collaborate and present a couple classes at the STN Expo with Cheri Clymer ...
Read More »Generations Unplugged – Training Your Replacement
In this 1-2 day Train Your Replacement facilitated conversation we bring experience and education, then let you set the direction for how to pass the baton.
Read More »Milton, Ontario Cliff Rescue Training / Homemade Edge Protection
One of the Milton, Ontario Fire Department crews set up a scenario where they had to rescue a “patient” from the bottom of the cliff… but they had to go through and around several trees at the edge of the cliff. Rattlesnake point (where they get most of their rope calls has some pretty tricky edges with overhangs and trees ...
Read More »Snake Got Your Hand In A Pipe
The scenario is a husband and wife are snaking the basement floor drain and the husband sticks his arm down the drain hole to clear some debris when the wife turns the snake on. The husband becomes entrapped in the snake and the drain. So we have to cut the concrete to get the pipe out... then dissect the pipe... then cut his finger out of the auger.
Read More »Paper Shredder Extrication Training
Andrew Brassard sent this simple machinery extrication drill over. Brass said if you google "hand stuck in shredder" you will see it happens quite frequently... along with all sorts of other things.
Read More »Cutting With Torches
In this pit the students had the opportunity to use a Petrogen torch and a slice pack. The Fire Cam videos were taken by Austrian FF Bernd Altinger as he used both torches.
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