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Basement Rescue Drills Video
Here is a great video of some basement removal techniques. This is another video from Dale Pekel, who looks like he may have gotten a promotion? Dale? Anyway, these props are able to be used for multiple drills and Dale is very generous with how to build them.
These two techniques are great and you can see that one must be comfortable and well trained in the use of the SCBA. Confidence comes from continued use and training. You must master the basics and know your tools like the back of your hand. This allows you to perform the more advanced tasks without worrying about the simple things because they become second nature.
Train hard and stay safe. Thanks Dale for another great video.
Jason
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Permalink Reply by Captain William Frazer on
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Very Very Nice, and a welcome challenge. If anyone has pics of props like this I would love to have em!
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Permalink Reply by Ernie Scheinert on
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Jason- As always, thank you so much for sharing this great video. This definitely gives me more ideas to bring up to the officers for training ideas as well as more knowledge to utilize as I continue to do more interior ops. Thank you so much for all of the insight that you offer to us!!
Ernie
Stay Safe
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Permalink Reply by Tyler Lyons on
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Awesome training evolution, thanks for sharing!
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Permalink Reply by Jason Hoevelmann on
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I will send you pictures of two different types of props we use for this. You can also email Dale, he will send you plans for the prop you see in the video. He is on FFN.
Thanks,
Jason
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Permalink Reply by Jack/dt on
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Just an observation:
The prop sets the window height at about 5ft (60+14=74" basement height)whereas (at least in my area) typical basement heights are ~8ft, which puts the bottom of the window at about 82" (96-14) ~2ft higher than the video prop. This is important because it's going to make getting in and out for the rescuers that much more difficult and the increased angle of the ladder means it's going to be harder to keep the FF in place on the ladder.
Video says "lock feet on the rungs" but, will an unconscious FF's feet/legs stay locked? I think a length of webbing positioned on the ladder so that it can be put around the FF' shoulders and attached to the rungs would be the only way to keep an unconscious FF from sliding down the ladder. (In a similar way that you would do it to pull a FF out)
One other thing: Many homes have window wells outside the basement windows (grade is higher than bottom of window) which means getting down into the well and then through the window, exiting in the same way and trying to get an unconscious FF on a ladder out a window well is going to be very difficult; you'd actually have to pull the FF off of the ladder, into the well and then pull him up out of the well, this is going to slow the removal significantly.
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Jack/dt,
You are absolutely right in your observations. Our basement windows are usually taller as well. In regards to this prop, you can adjust it when you build it to the height you need.
This method is one of many and I agree about the feet. We have used a 175 pound dummy and we slide the feet in between the rungs and it works well. One thing to note is to make sure the head does not fall between the rungs and gets hung up going out, we don't want to break a neck. This is especially important if the firefighter is on his back. The rear brim of the helmet can cause this if it gets caught up.
The window wells are a significant issue and we are working on adding this to a prop we already have. I will send pictures once it is finished.
I am going to post a different removal method soon that uses two firefighters inside and one or two outside using just webbing. I like it a lot and it works very well.
Thanks for the great ideas and observations. You always bring great insight to these discussions and I really appreciate it.
Stay safe,
Jason
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