Vehicle Rescue

They used handlines under the water and on top of the water to simulate current. This is an awesome and innovative way to get crews some realistc training.

Check this short video out and share with your up and coming extrication tool handlers.

Below are some great strut training pictures from Chad Daily of Kansas City Fire Department Rescue 9. There are many strong, versatile, and fast deploying struts on the market today

We know a guy that needed a semi tractor cut up. He just happened to know we would cut it up for him. So, that's what we did. A quick-hitter class of sorts, but its not everyday you get to cut up a semi tractor.

Yesterday on Facebook we added a picture of a guy wire into a car that a Brother shared. A pretty good conversation about how to deal with these wires took place. If your able scroll back on the FDT facebook page to check it out.

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 ...

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.

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.  Read it HERE.  Subsequent to that article, I was invited to collaborate and present a couple classes at the STN Expo with Cheri Clymer ...

The Toledo Fire & Rescue Department responded to what was dispatched as a car crash on July 3, 2013. Upon arrival they found a huge sinkhole that swallowed up a car with the driver still inside.

Here are a couple pictures (BC Curt Isacson) from a wreck the Escambia County (FL) Fire Department had the other day. You can see the vehicle ended up down a ravine on its side. It looks like they used struts for stabilization.