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...
Rescuers often remove the side windows of a school bus and cut from the bottom of the window to the bus floor. Rescuers need to locate...
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...
I never fully appreciated the changes that were made to school buses after the Carrollton bus collision until my kids started riding on a school bus....
I was sent a message from a firefighter the other night asking about a 2017 vehicle that he found did not have side laminated windows? This...
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?
Vehicle into a building is an accident that can happen in any city or town. The Ohio Region 2 USAR posted the information below and allowed...
Buildings are located next to roads all over the world. Here's an extrication that the Central VFC of Elizabeth Township responded to.
Below are two separate incidents where a vehicle went into the building and the building required shoring. The York County Advanced Technical Rescue Team gave us...
Toranze Lee from Beaver Lane Volunteer Rescue and Fire Department in South Carolina posted the pictures below from a training with Paratech Struts.
One of the fastest method to stabilize a side resting vehicle is using struts. Use struts to create a tension buttress stabilization. Just like cribbing placement,...
