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If you see seatbelt airbags in any vehicle make sure you identify where the gas cylinders are at. In this case the cylinders are right where we would be tunneling in an under-ride scenario.

Everyone doesn't have to load down their turnout gear with tools for vehicle extrication. These simple wraps/bucket can be deployed by the officer or designated member of the crew at working extrications.

Each unit will have their own prop to train with next week. Below are pictures of the assembly.

Grant Light and the crew on Rescue 9 in Cincinnati was at it again. They built a roller prop that entraps a hand.

Grant Light and his crew from Cincinnati Fire Heavy Rescue 9 put a little work into making this old scrap steel into a great indoor training prop.

Andrew Brassard made a maze prop that weighs a couple hundred pounds. The idea is to use pry bars, airbags, wedges, cribbing, rabbit tools, spreaders, and other tools to manipulate the box and get a small ball from one end to the other.

Cincinnati Rescue 9 Lt. Grant Light has the mic last month in the Heavy Rescue class at BGSU State Fire School.

I dropped in to see Battalion Chief Doug Wehmeyer at the main Deerfield Twp firehouse a few days ago. After some command training and dinner, he finally let me see the rescue truck.

I dropped in on Station 16 in Columbus this afternoon. Below are some pictures of Rescue 16. It is the busiest or one of the busiest rescues in the country, year in - year out.

This run information is from Assistant Chief John Ryan, City of Newburgh Fire Department. Something to keep in mind when your struggling for a source.