One company out there sells out their extrication classes faster than a Taylor Swift show is Tactical Advantage Training. Tactical Advantage Training, or TAT is owned and operated by Lt Isaac Frazier a Special Operations Lieutenant with St. Johns County Fire Rescue in Northeast Florida. His “STREET” proven training comes from being first due to the deadliest stretch of roadway in the nation, Interstate 95.
Lt Frazier also writes for Fire Engineering and will be teaching Gaining the Tactical Advantage at FDIC next month. So make sure you stop by and like the Tactical Advantage Training page on Facebook and read all of his Extrication Quick Tips he posts on his blog at Fire Engineering.
Here’s a list of Lt Frazier’s Quick Tips
- Extrication Quick Tip 1
- Extrication “Quick Tip” 2 (B Scratch)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” 3 (PIE CUT)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” 4 (PEDAL PULL)
- Extrication Quick Tip #5 (TOOL STAGING)
- Extrication Quick Tip #6 (Stabilization with less)
- Extrication Quick Tip #7 (Dash Strapping/tie-downs)
- Extrication Quick Tip #8 (CAPTURING SUSPENSION)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” #9 (X Method)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” #10 (Wreckers)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” #11 (Directional Pull)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” #12 (Fast Shears)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” #13 (POP FROM THE TOP)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” #14 (All About Time)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” 15 (CROSSRAMMIN’)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” 16 (FANCY NAMES?)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” #17 (Fuel Line Pinch)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” 18 (RAM BASE)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” #19 (Directional Steering Pull)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” #20 (Displace IT!)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” #21 (THE DASH WON’T LIFT)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” #22 (TIME TO RECLINE)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” #23 (Guardrail Entrapments)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” #24 (Leap-Frogging)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” #25 (Pull the KEYS)
- Extrication “Quick Tip” #26 (THE DEEP CUT)
- Extrication “Quick Tip”#27 (Cable Barriers)
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Houston Fire Department’s Trailer 11
Check out Houston Fire Department’s new Trailer 11 purchased from Metro Fire Apparatus Specialists, Inc. It’s packed for of Paratech equipment with room for more!

Houston Fire Department’s Trailer 11
Check out Houston Fire Department’s new Trailer 11 purchased from Metro Fire Apparatus Specialists, Inc. Check out the pictures below and make sure you follow the social media pages from Metro Fire Apparatus Specialists.
Overall Pictures
Compartments Pictures
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Heavy Rescue
Overturned Tractor-Trailer Extrication

Overturned Tractor-Trailer Extrication
Check out the overturned Tractor-Trailer, confirmed entrapment, and power pole down that Elizabethtown Fire Dept Station 74 had earlier today.

Large Vehicle with Heavy Entrapment
The Washtenaw County Technical Rescue Team recently assisted Milan Area Firefighters with this complex extrication. Team members assisted Milan Firefighters and utilized HURST Jaws of Life and Paratech to extricate the heavily entrapped driver quickly.