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...
Have you considered how the weather can affect a vehicle extrication? Consider this, often, garbage is set outside homes the night before garbage pickup day. Now...
Lake Shore Box 20-15 had units from Anne Arundel County Fire Department, Maryland State Police - Aviation Command, Morton's Towing & Recovery Inc responded to the...
How do you calculate the load?
Questions about heavy rescue that involves tractor trailers and other heavy vehicles? Download the Big Rig Rescue handout from Billy Leach's Firehouse Expo class below.
Here's a unique tool to make an anchor point on a wheel of a large truck. Wheel Bones made by
Tim Vandermeer put a great Come-A-Long Tool Basics video onto YouTube.
Heavy Vehicle Extrication is often personnel and equipment intensive. A great example, rescue companies from Lower Macungie Fire Department, Goodwill Fire Company No.1 of Trexlertown, PA-Station...
With summertime in full swing in the northern hemisphere, motorhomes are hitting the highways and pose an unique situation when those vehicles are involved in an...
ne thing I find on my Facebook feed are different pages that provide useful information to their customer base that can also be used in the...
Under-rides happen more often than you think. When was the last time you trained on a vehicle that was pinned under a trailer with an occupant...
November 2015, in Charlottesville, Virginia a Semi overturned on passenger car on I-64. Here's one thing I like when a department puts together an after-action report...
