Posts Tagged: Technical Rescue
Helmet-cam: Icy dog rescue in Fargo, North Dakota.
Up close and personal for an ice rescue in North Dakota.
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SUSAR…The Other US&R Teams
The State Urban Search and Rescue Association (SUSAR), was founded in August 2006.
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USAID Deploys VA-TF1 and CA-TF2 to Japan
VA-TF1 and CA-TF2
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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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New Zealand May Request Additional US&R Assistance for Recovery Efforts
New Zealand may seek additional help to find more than 200 missing people in Christchurch following a 6.3-magnitude earthquake, as search-and-rescue efforts in the nation’s second-largest city enter a fifth day.
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Who saves these guys when they get into trouble? Would you be ready for a rescue from a 1768-foot transmission tower?
What goes up may someday need help from the fire deparment.
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Multiple Rescue Teams Called in for Challenging Water Tower Rescue
Rescuers made a confined space entry 160 feet in the air.
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Breaking News: Water Tower Rescue in Hollywood FL
Two people are reported trapped inside.
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Base Jumper Spends the Night Hanging from Cliff. Gets Rescued then Arrested
A massive search & rescue operation was mobilized
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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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US Coast Guard Helo Hoists 17 year old boy off Oregon cliff
The teen fell down the 200 foot embankment
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Worker Pulled from Peanut Silo by FD and Virginia Beach Tech Rescue
The rescue team considered dismantling the Silo.
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Houston Fire Rescues Windows Washers from 45th Floor
The rescue took about two and a half hours.
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Technical Rescue Team’s First Call: Structural Collapse with Entrapment
The team worked for hours to free the women and her dog
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Passerby Killed in Kansas City, MO Building Collapse
The abandoned warehouse collapsed into the street.
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Confined Space Incident: 2 firefighters and 2 civilians pulled out unresponsive
At least one person has died.
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Long Beach Fire US&R Team Rappels to Stop suicidal jumper
The Long Beach Fire Department Blogs reports:
On Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD) units, responded to a reported suicidal female hanging out of an eight (8) story window at the Hilton Hotel located at 701 W OCEA…
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Rope Rescue Tech Part 1
I recently took a rope rescue technician class given by CMC. This is just one of many pictures I took during the class. The class was a week long and there was very little classroom time; almost all in the field.
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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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Car Over a Cliff in Oregon sends 2 victims to the hospital by air
Trees stopped the car from falling another 200 feet
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Hazards of Nitrogen Asphyxiation
Nitrogen is suspected in a recent FF close call
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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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Confined Space Incident: City Worker Killed, 3 Firefighters overcome.
Air monitoring showed less 2% oxygen
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Sometimes you get the bear. Oxnard, California firefighters pluck a 200 pound bear from a tree.
Bear first spotted in a fire station parking lot.
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Seattle Fire’s Technical Rescue Team Pulls 2 Window Washers from 35th Floor
Firefighters were lowered down from the roof
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