In this firefighter rope rescue training video, instructor Derick Caloway of Elevated Safety and Harken Safety and Rescue and Tim Anderson of Anderson Rescue Solutions demonstrate how to retrieve a single person load in a rope rescue. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: If, for some reason, he was, by himself, was going to start this. You’d want to tie off the end of …
Rope Rescue (Part 2 of 5) | Rope Rescue Going Over | Firefighter Rope Trainer
In this firefighter rope rescue training video, instructor Derick Caloway of Elevated Safety and Harken Safety and Rescue and Tim Anderson of Anderson Rescue Solutions demonstrate the how to go over safety for a two-to-one progress, capture and drop loop system rope rescue operation. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: We’re going to manage this and leave it up here. There is a knot …
Rope Rescue (Part 1 of 5) | Setting up a Rope Rescue | Firefighter Rope Trainer
In this firefighter rope rescue training video, instructors Sean Cogan of Harken Safety and Rescue and Derick Calloway of Elevated Safety/Harken Group discuss the progress, capture and drop loop system. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: I’m going to start from the top, basically go through a different evolution of a progress capture drop loop system that we really like versus going into 3-to-1s …
Heavy Rescues
Cartoon by Sam Wallace
Elevator Rope Rescue (Part 6) | Coming up from an Elevator Extraction | Firefighter Elevator Rescue Training
In this firefighter elevator rope rescue training video, instructor Geoff Davis discusses how to bring a rescuer back up from a shaft during an elevator entrapment rescue. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: After we lower the rescuer down and we package the patient however we’re going to package, what has to happen next? Bring him back up. Bring him back up. What did …
Elevator Rope Rescue (Part 5 of 6) | Elevator Extraction | Firefighter Elevator Rescue Training
In this firefighter elevator rope rescue training video, instructor Chris Smity discusses preparing to go down into a shaft for an elevator entrapment rescue. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: You want to be slow and controlled when we go down because there’s a lot of things that can happen. Nine times out of ten, I’m going to pick you over him to get …
“The smartest person can’t be the hero.”
— Chris Smity | District of Columbia Fire Department (DCFD)
Elevator Rope Rescue (Part 4 of 6) | Loading an MPD | Firefighter Elevator Rescue Training
In this firefighter elevator rope rescue training video, instructor Chris Smity demonstrates the proper way to load and hang a multi-purpose device (MPD) when preparing for an elevator entrapment rescue. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: If you guys have ever used this MPD, it can be very challenging to some people to load this thing up. I hold it in my left hand. …
Firehouse Pranks
Cartoon by Sam Wallace
“Pretty knots operate pretty.”
— Chris Smity | District of Columbia Fire Department (DCFD)








