Posts Tagged: Webbing
How Do You Store Your Webbing?
Below are two different methods of storing webbing with a carabiner. FF Louie Wargo sent them over with a few questions after a recent training. As a side note, be sure to look up in the wheelhouse of the Jet Express if your ever headed to the Lake Erie islands. Captain Louie might be piloting the boat.
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Simple Webbing Tips: Storage
Here is one of our instructors from Engine House Training,LLC on some simple webbing techniques. He will be running a series on different webbing uses, so stay tuned!
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Catching up and a simple “Trick of the Trade”
Well, the good news is that I lived 12 hours following my last post and made it to 4-day break. As usual, I've been just as busy at home on the farm as I am while on the job.
We've been lucky enough to have been getting some much needed rain.
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How Many Uses Can You Come Up With?
Everyone has their own ideas about why they carry a certain length of webbing or rope. But, don't limit yourself to the harnesses and escape systems that utilize webbing. The pieces I keep are for a multitude of basic practices that assist me, when needed, in actual firefighting.
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What’s in Your Pockets? Here is What’s in Mine
Occasionally I will place other tools in my pockets to give them a try and see if they are something I forget on the engine or need frequently. Most of the time, I go back to the way it has been for years. I keep two sets of webbing, each secured in a loop with a caribeener or two for rescue, self-rescue, or a downed firefighter. I also carry the 25' prussick just in case I need to take a dive out of a window without the advantage of having a ladder (although I have no plans of needing this!)....you just never know!
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What’s In Your Pockets?
Without becoming a walking toolbox, what essentials do you carry on your person?
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