Rescue Articles

Firefighters and emergency rescue crews attending road traffic collisions need to have an understanding of vehicle glass rescue management.

In a rear-end collision with another truck, much larger amounts of kinetic energy are involved, resulting in much higher deformation energy than for cars.

Just how much do we need to know about Medical Rescue? I have always said that having some knowledge of the medical aspects of rescue is important.

For most of us dealing with RTC’s involving cars is a relatively run of the mill job, but what do we do when the incident involves a Bus?

Rescue Tools: Speed Versus Control – more information about use of the flow control mechanism in hydraulic rescue tools to regulate the speed of operation.

I have instructed crews for many years on dealing with incidents where there is difficult or Restricted Access to Rescue Scenes.

Vehicle Extrication Practice Training: Practice how you play! Do not accept nor seek out shortcuts that will leave you unprepared for real rescue scenes.

In my last blog I briefly touched upon the importance of a cyclic approach to Firefighter Education & Training to allow less experienced rescuers to develop.

We will consider here the methods of Creating Openings for Fire Ventilation where openings are made manually by means of hand tools.

Heavy Rescue Sweden have recently been in touch to tell us about the training courses they provide including truck extrication instructor training and chain-cable extrication instructor training.