TASK: Given the information presented in Part 4 of this series, the rescuer will demonstrate the steps necessary to effectively operate a power cutter to cut through the advanced steel structural ...

Instructors present challenging, difficult extrication scenarios requiring advanced skills to stabilize the vehicles, gain entry, and remove patients entrapped and entangled in the wreckage. There ...

Today’s vehicles are well equipped to try to keep drivers safe during a crash and include safety equipment like airbags and other technologies. Unfortunately, this can sometimes impede the progress of ...

The first two days of this course are spent studying current and future airbag hazards, advanced steels, vehicle construction, alternatively fueled vehicles (including hybrids, fully electric, natural ...

The Contra Costa County Fire Department Sunday rescued a man who was lodged in a 16-inch underground pipe in Antioch. It took 50 firefighters more than three hours to extricate the man, who emerged ...