Posts Tagged: Cribbing
Type A School Buses / LPG / Heavy Lifting
Coming in 2012 will be an option from General Motors for liquified petroleum gas (LPG) in Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana cutaway 4500 vans, which are used in Type A school bus applications. About 2,600 LPG (autogas) fueling stations are scattered ar…
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Cribbing For Heavy Vehicle Lifting
Here is a basic review of wood cribbing capacities and then some thoughts on how to increase your crews critical thinking before the heavy rescue lifting call.
Are you prepared to lift a heavy vehicle off of an entrapped victim? Do you have the knowle…
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Leadership Style Assessment
I am currently undertaking the most challenging collegiate educational journey of my life in Capella Universities MPA program. Typically, my post's are on rescue, extrication, and training, but I plan to throw in fire service relevant leadership and mo…
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Sawzall / Reciprocating Saw Ops
Many of us in the fire service are getting back to the basics and this post will dive into Sawzall / reciprocating saw operations. I've included a bit of history, pictures, and some tips that will hopefully help contain your emotions prior to throwing …
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Lifting and Moving Operations: An Inch Can Save a Life
Make sure you surf over to Firehouse.com and read a great article about Back-to-basics approach moving heavy objects in rescue scenarios written by Michael R. Donahue, a Firehouse.com Contributor. The article brakes down lifting and moving loads into several great examples that include; Fulcrum & Leaver, Hydraulic Tools, Pneumatic Struts, Pneumatic Air Bags, and Ropes.
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Hurst FDIC Display
Hurst….. Well every major extrication tool manufacturer had a great display of tools set up at FDIC. Hurst had a 2011 Ford Fiesta in a plexi-glass box where factory reps cut it to pieces in front of visitors at their booth. There was also a stack of Boron B-pillars that I would have loved to sneak out the back. There was also an outside demo area by Lucas Oil Stadium where conference attendees could put on some PPE and make some cuts on a car. Best part of the outside demo on Friday was Hurst had a bar set up next to the display!
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Wooden Cribbing Basics
I was wandering around the Internet and ran across a Canadian Public Safety site that has some good basic information about wooden cribbing. The information below is basic 101 cribbing but it never hurts to review the basics.
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RAW VIDEO: Firefighters pull car from underneath semi
A good portion of the extrication of the man trapped in the vehicle under the semi trailer was captured by a cameraman from NBC 25. The accident was on Southbound I-75 between Clio and Birch Run around 6 am. The car spun out into a ditch and A semi tractor-trailer rolled over onto a car. The driver of the car was not killed. In fact, it is reported that he was able to send text messages while trapped in the vehicle.
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Airbags in the Dark
So, when you drill for these, lift something, anything, like pallets with full visibility. Watch what happens to the opposite side of the lift and make notes. When you get into the dark you will have to crib, raise, and lower all by feel. Oh, and up on red and down on blue is difficult at best.
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Technical Rescue/Special Ops
However, as you can see we have two problems with this scenario: the piece of equipment tilted and the boom in the house.
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