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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. …
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Cartoon by Sam Wallace
“Pretty knots operate pretty.”
— Chris Smity | District of Columbia Fire Department (DCFD)
Elevator Rope Rescue (Part 3 of 6) | Rope Rescue Knots | Firefighter Elevator Rescue Training
In this firefighter elevator rope rescue training video, instructor Chris Smity demonstrates the proper way to assemble a double long tailbone rope rescue knot when preparing for an elevator entrapment rescue. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: Double long tail bone. I try to tie them in a snap configuration. We don’t need huge tails for this because we have an objective that we’re …
Elevator Rope Rescue (Part 2 of 6) | Trapped in Elevator | Firefighter Elevator Rescue Training
In this elevator rope rescue training video, instructor Chris Smity discusses rope rescue equipment setup and safety when rescuing people trapped in an elevator during a Twisted Industries’ Carolina Fire Days training event. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: We got head pins and leg pins. Head pins are bigger in diameter. They only go in the head. It’s rated 32,000 pounds. Leg pins, …
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