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 and discuss how to build mechanical advantage with minimal gear during a two-to-one rope fire rescue. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: From here, now building mechanical advantage. Derek might just jump into that connection point. We’ll lower …
Cartoon by Sam Wallace
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 raise a single person to a high point in a rope rescue operation. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: We need a better high point. Using the other end of the rope. We’ve got a high …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Cartoon by Sam Wallace
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 …
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 …
— Chris Smity | District of Columbia Fire Department (DCFD)
