Tag Archives: rope rescue

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.

Check these pictures out of a extrication training on rope. Push your training to prepare for the unusual, but just as importantly, to strengthen your critical thinking.

What's your plan for getting to a victim on the top of a car in flood waters? Swift water operations?

Some torch operations on rope from the Cincinnati Heavy Rescue 9 crew.

We did some training with the pickets on our rig the other day. Picket systems used for anchors are limited by the soil type you are dealing with.

It's a elevator rescue in a blind shaft with heavy rigging (griphoist), metal cutting on rope (plasma cutter and saw), and a pick-off.

A former firefighter was killed in a grain bin accident. Read more HERE. Reports state he was working on top of the bin and fell in

Confined space training at the Milton (Ontario) FD using a culvert pipe and ladder gin.

We did a little high-line set-up training in the apparatus bay yesterday. It ended up being a pretty low-line, but it worked to practice the set-up.

Then, over the next 2 days we were in the water covering defensive swimming, throwbags, shallow water crossings, swiftwater rescue boards, 2 and 4 line boat operations, high line boat operations, and victim rescue.