Tag Archives: Rescue

Back at the May 2013 BGSU State Fire School while teaching in the heavy rescue class, a group of instructors were passing around some newer pieces of equipment to the rescue world. One was the UFO Rigging Cube.

Last month while at the School Transportation News Expo in Reno I learned about the new 98 gallon propane tank we will be seeing on some of Blue Birds school buses.

Yesterday on Facebook we added a picture of a guy wire into a car that a Brother shared. A pretty good conversation about how to deal with these wires took place. If your able scroll back on the FDT facebook page to check it out.

As more and more alternative fueled vehicles hit the road, we still haven’t really seen an industry standard that identifies these vehicles easily for first responders.  Little hybrid, propane, or CNG stickers on the trunk or fender can be hard to see at night and/or destroyed during a crash.  The tale is similar when talking about school buses.  Take for ...

When I say thinking with muscle I include your cranium muscle. At last nights training we set-up a roll-over pinning scenario and also moved big blocks. It's not rocket science, but sometimes we could fall into a trap of what is not fastest and safest.

Over this weekend the world saw two fatal charter bus crashes. Although different in construction, these buses give rescuers similar challenges because of the numbers of passengers. Lots of personnel and resources are needed for incidents of this magnitude.

Over the last few days I've been in Reno, Nevada presenting and learning at the School Transportation News Expo. Here's yesterdays post on some leadership lessons the fire service can learn from the transportation industry. READ ON. STN puts on a great conference. Be sure to follow them on Facebook to stay current with the technology we will see on the road and to show them the fire service cares about the transportation of our children.

At the end of last year, Ryan Gray (Editor-In-Chief of School Transportation News magazine) contacted me about writing a piece on school bus emergencies and what first responders will do at the scene of a crash.  Read it HERE.  Subsequent to that article, I was invited to collaborate and present a couple classes at the STN Expo with Cheri Clymer ...

Screw jacks are very versatile and pretty inexpensive as well. In a rescue email group today we started discussing screw jacks in the trench environment.

There are three separate parts to this post, but lots of good stuff to think about.