Sept 22-23, 2017 Advanced Heavy Rescue Symposium at the CFD Training Academy registration forms ready to be sent out, email me if your interested. Only 60...
Have you walked thru your local school and thought that the lockers could fall on someone?
Machine rescue runs have new boundaries and every firefighter needs to understand many different techniques.
Trench Rescue Here is an interesting look from several different views of a successful trench rescue back in April of 2016. The rescue took place by...
The battery weight and location are important considerations for stabilization.
Grain Bin Dangers Farming is full speed ahead as most of the country is firmly into spring time. Many farmers are cleaning out grain silos and...
Vehicle rescue instructors should remind participants in your training classes, especially if they are EMS-oriented responders, about how they can ‘read’ a seatbelt pretensioner system and...
Often many extrication instructors setup some outside of the normal training scenarios where the students usually comment “that would never happen”. One of those happened in...
Winter is in full force across many parts of the world. The east coast of the United States is currently feeling the wrath of a Bomb...
One tool in the rescue discipline that is important to store properly, ready for fast effective deployment is the ratchet strap. One method that satisfies both...
West Metro Fire Rescue West Metro Fire Rescue posted several pictures from a vehicle accident that required several rescue discipline to free a trapped occupant. Around...
Often on side resting vehicles, once a strut is placed the fixed end of the ratchet strap is too long to tighten the strut.
