Posts Tagged: Special Operations
Manhattan Scaffolding Rescue Highlights Agency Rivalry and Risk Management Decisions
“We have some of the best training and the best equipment to do this.”
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Texas Task Force 1 Deployed to Search Town Destroyed by Wildfire
Texas Task Force 1 has been deployed to Bastrop, Texas (Near Austin) to conduct a search of the scorched town. Approximately 700 homes haves have been destroyed by the wildfire.
The State of Texas has been a leader in enhancing their US&R Task F…
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World Trade Center Bombing-1993
1993 WTC Bombing
At 18 minutes after noon on February 26, 1993, a huge bomb went off beneath the two towers of the World Trade Center. This was not a suicide attack. The terrorists parked a truck bomb with a timing device on Level B-2 of the u…
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Workers Critical After Beam Collapse at Yale University
Firefighters used air bags to rescue a worker pinned by a steel beam.
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Santa Barbara County Hazmat Responds to White Powder
The powder was not identified, but determined to be non-harmful.
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Horse in the Loft
While awaiting the arrival of additional resources, the horse was kept calm due to the age and the poor condition of the barn’s second story floor. Given the time of the incident a light tower and generator was called to the scene for lighting around the incident and inside barn
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Multi-Agency Rescue Effort Frees Man from Trench in Pennsylvania
A group of 5 men set out to help install a french drain at a Pennsylvania home, when one of them became trapped in the trench they dug. A wall of dirt gave way trapping the man to his chest in the 6 foot deep by 4 foot wide trench. Numerous fire, EMS…
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Short on Cash for Special Operations? Consider moving your personnel to a special ops engine
Special Operations are the first to go during tight budgets
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Investigation Continues into Last Weeks Trench Collapse in Ohio
OSHA is looking into the fatal trench collapse
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Honolulu Fire Boat Faces Sinking Budget
Special Operations Units across the country face cuts
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Crush Syndrome…The Smiling Death
If you've ever been called a "rock breaker", you need a basic awareness of crush syndrome.
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Successful High-Angle Rescue
The elevator worker had fallen into the silo and was buried to his armpits with only one arm free.
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Urban Search and Rescue Insights
Insights into the make-up and operational deployment of the FEMA National Urban Search and Rescue System (USAR) with information on the UFDA and USAID organization and strategic US&R considerations.
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