Featured Product of the Week — OnScene Solutions’ Wellz Tool pulls extra duty during extrication training. This forcible entry tool fits into a responder’s pocket and can be used to breach doors, open hydrants, block hinges, shut off gas meters … and as shown here, aid in extrication. Find more information about the Wellz Tool here >
During this six-week Heavy Lifting and Stabilization Training series, we take a quick look at how opposing 4x4s can be crossed to chock a tandem-axle vehicle. This training footage was captured at Secrest Wrecker Service in Monroe, NC. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: Just for tandem. Well, it’s the truck on the trailer. We just talk about it just bites into itself. It’s …
Cartoon by Sam Wallace
The Beaver Lane Volunteer Rescue and Fire Department specced this SVI-built Heavy Rescue, featuring aluminum body mounted on a Spartan Gladiator LFD chassis with 20-inch raised roof. Powered by a Cummins ISX12 500HP engine, this new walk-around Heavy Rescue features a Resolve Specialty Space Saver SCBA filling station, OnScene Solutions cargo slides with compartment lighting, a 240,000-lumen Command Light CL …
Nick Griffin, Beaver Lane Fire Department — Heavy Lifting and Stabilization Training
Vehicle Stabilization
Nick Griffin, Beaver Lane Fire Department — Heavy Lifting and Stabilization Training
Vehicle Stabilization
Beaver Lane Fire & Rescue Technical Rescue Certified Firefighter Nick Griffin moderates Part 2 of Fire Spotlight’s Heavy Lifting and Stabilization Training series. Griffin describes this recent pit scenario — a bobtail semi truck rolled on top of a car. Crews learned how to perform a control roll using Paratech Fire & Rescue Equipment HydraFusion Struts in conjunction with a …
Check out this Ten House truck show-and-tell! Crews from area departments peeked behind the compartment doors of this SVI-built Heavy Rescue and picked the brains of Charlotte Fire Department, Charlotte NC on this truck build during a March training event. HEAVY RESCUE EQUIPPED WITH: Paratech Kit Ropes Inflatable Raft Swift Water 50’s Exothermic Cutting Torch Plumber’s Kit Ground Pads Hypothermic …
Heavy Lifting and Stabilization Training at Secrest Wrecker Service — Monroe, NC
Vehicle Stabilization
Heavy Lifting and Stabilization Training at Secrest Wrecker Service — Monroe, NC
Vehicle Stabilization
