Tag Archives: Rescue

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.

The Sandusky Fire Department shared some information about the Great Lake rip currents the other day. It just so happens that the weather is right and a North East blow is making the southern shore of Lake Erie treacherous today in our area (Huron, OH - halfway between Cleveland and Toldeo).

Here's some pictures from Mike Forbes of a recent rope training Spokane Truck 4 did. We can learn a lot about rigging by just looking at pictures sometimes, so here they are.

Here are some photos and a drill description from a task force (MI-TF1) exercise last week. The task was to shore a sloped (lean-to) floor. They used Paratech equipment.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

We had a great two days of hands-on extrication at the NY State Chiefs conference. The students worked hard even during the constant monsoon on Thursday.

Check out the pics from a recent Seattle FD training. What have you done with the first responder jack? Share your pics.