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 him in, clip, clip, and then the whole thing is ready here. This cleans things up pretty well too. If you want to pay rope out, most swivel pulleys, have enough weight to them to shuttle that connection point down to a guy, let him tie into it, load yourself up.

And I’m still a drop loop two-to-one, still for progress capture drop loop two-to-one.  We just changed the configuration just by switching the location of the patrol descent device and the pulley. We just swap them.  If I were to run an ASAP on both legs of this, would you consider it a two-rope system?

Yes. Yes. I would.  And the test is there to prove it. That’s one cool way to minimize your gear. I didn’t have to bring another 300-foot chunk of rope up to do the job. This one’s not traveling. This one’s stuck. That’s just going to stay a static line as far as you want to fade out.