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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.

There are a lot of moving parts, belts, and chains that create potential for entrapment. Short video and a couple pictures below.

Here's a quick one on the importance of preplanning and getting out in your district. First, VCSing stands for Various Courses and Speeds. It might not be the politically correct definition, but if you don't get out in your district more often than not you will miss what's going on.

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.

A couple pictures of Portland's rescue tiller.

I share these pictures to show some of the mounting options available, and to suggest looking at many rigs when organizing your new rig. Plan them out so they work for your department's operations.

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.