Sure, there are a ton of courses out there for confined space principles — how to do hole watch, how to monitor, etc. — but just how relevant is this material to a confined space rescuer? When should we build a tripod reeve? What kind of precautions should we take around a patient when getting […]
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Steep angle litter work can be about as difficult as any high angle rescue. The main reason is that the litter attendants will have to pick and choose the terrain while still maintaining patient contact and visual. This isn’t always doable and often teams are working with minimal personnel so choosing a system that works
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The use of elevated anchors, i.e. high directional anchor systems, is a mandatory requirement of NFPA 1670 for rope technicians. Having said this, it is impossible to discuss one facet of rope rigging and not address all the many other aspects at the same time. A rope system is like a living breathing thing; like
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~This is a quick snippet of something we filmed when we first opened up RLA’s studio lab ~ Two Rope Twin Tension Mini Offset… Backcountry Meets Fire Service So backcountry meets fire service… sounds like a battle of some sort. So while this “match up” is really neither epic nor epoch, this contest does
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A Shout-Out to Peak Rescue Institute for their amazing commitment to Excellence and Service. Class 3 Litter Operations would be considered by most a low angle litter operation. Not necessarily “technical”, but terrain considerations and footing could change a “standard” operation to something a bit more meaty. It isn’t just backcountry or rural SAR teams
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As Torrey and I travel around the country filming and managing a very large amount of footage, it has become very apparent to me that one product has become, what I would call… an “emerging product”. While in days past, the AZTEK was (and still is to some degree) the work horse for rigging systems…
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We reached out a year or so ago and started looking at confined space. There’s a lot of video on rope rescue, a lot of cool high line failure videos you can watch. There wasn’t a lot on confined space, we found. We decided, “How do we do a confined space video?” Well, everybody wants
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Meet The Players… The AZTEK Elite and the Pocket Hauler. Compact pulley systems have been in use for a long time, but the AZTEK in its current version is really what is known best. The original version (AZTEK Pro), is Sterling’s Pocket Hauler, includes these mini double pulleys and had a progress capture prusik at
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