Tag Archives: technical rescue

Below are a couple pictures of a interesting elevator rescue set-up from the Edmonton Technical Rescue Team (Engine 3 and Rescue 3). They used Paratech collapse shores.

Here are a couple pictures of cheap in-house confined space training options to challenge your crew.

The Westminster (SC) Fire Department will be hosting the third annual Rippin' Rescue class on March 29, 2014. This will be a one day class with all hands-on training.

Sooner or later the weather will warm and we will be faced with the potential for risk-takers or avid outdoorsmen being stranded on ice flows and falling into the water as ice thins.

Lt. Bronner from the Perkins Township Fire Department did a quick airbag drill the other day. I've seen this drill somewhere before. The objective: lift, crib, and don't drop the ball.

We did a little high-line set-up training in the apparatus bay yesterday. It ended up being a pretty low-line, but it worked to practice the set-up.

Getting the Griphoist back in the box is a bigger challenge than operating it. It's kind of like a jack-in-the-box.

The following is a description of a machinery rescue call from Andrew Brassard and the Milton (Ontario) Fire Department. They received the call around 11:30 pm a few days back for a man caught in a machine at the Leaver Mushroom Plant. At the end are some leasons learned and other things to think about. Also, be sure to check out the linked man-lift rescue post with more variables.

There are lots of sound fences along highways. Maybe not so many folks that would do what this guy does in the video...

This is another innovative training from Lt. Grant Light and his crew on Cincinnati Fire Department Rescue 9. It's another cheap drill to put together in the house.