Instructors present challenging, difficult extrication scenarios requiring advanced skills to stabilize the vehicles, gain entry, and remove patients entrapped and entangled in the wreckage. There ...

Topic: Comparison of Steel Tensile Strengths Objective: The rescue team will better understand advanced steel tensile strength ratings and how they relate to that of mild or high-strength steel. Task: ...

The first two days of this course are spent studying current and future airbag hazards, advanced steels, vehicle construction, alternatively fueled vehicles (including hybrids, fully electric, natural ...

HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) — More than 50 first responders from 16 different departments throughout the tri-state area spent their weekend working on their life-saving skills. A Southeast Tennessee ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) National Urban Security Technology Laboratory (NUSTL) released a request for information (RFI) seeking commercially ...

Every vehicle collision is different, said Matt Carlson, and a Saturday training in Mapleton helped first responders prepare for when vehicle extractions are needed. Carlson, an instructor with ...

The Contra Costa County Fire Department Sunday rescued a man who was lodged in a 16-inch underground pipe in Antioch. It took 50 firefighters more than three hours to extricate the man, who emerged ...

LE MARS, Iowa (KTIV) - Area fire departments underwent intensive heavy vehicle extrication training Oct. 11 and 12, learning critical skills to rescue individuals trapped in vehicles. The 14-hour ...

Today’s vehicles are well equipped to try to keep drivers safe during a crash and include safety equipment like airbags and other technologies. Unfortunately, this can sometimes impede the progress of ...