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Trench Rescue Training
Colac brigade attended a trench rescue training day in November to update and practise its skills in this area.
Colac brigade coordinates trench rescue activities on-scene, as CFA is the control authority for these type of incidents. Members of the Cobden Brigade were there to view the activity, and Colac VICSES also attended with its Heavy Rescue Truck. The exercise was carried out with the assistance of Rick Slater, a trenching contractor from Colac who operates across Region 6.
Read the full article and view photos at
http://cfafireflyer.blogspot.com/2008/11/trench-rescue-training-for...
Colac brigade coordinates trench rescue activities on-scene, as CFA is the control authority for these type of incidents. Members of the Cobden Brigade were there to view the activity, and Colac VICSES also attended with its Heavy Rescue Truck. The exercise was carried out with the assistance of Rick Slater, a trenching contractor from Colac who operates across Region 6.
Read the full article and view photos at
http://cfafireflyer.blogspot.com/2008/11/trench-rescue-training-for...
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Permalink Reply by lutan1 on
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It's on our RTO Scope of Registration- our instructor is an off duty Op's Officer from one of the Regions. We put it on there for two of our clients that wanted to do it, then they saw the costs invovled and decided against it!!!!
Haven't done it myself yet, but want to....
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Permalink Reply by Aussie_Wildfire on
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The wimmera- mallee pipe line went in and it made me think. How far away is someone with expertise in trench rescue.
As you said CFA is the control authority but who knows what they are doing. we tend to cheat and get the mine rescue team in.
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Permalink Reply by Jason Brooks on
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Trench rescue sucks. Back breaking manual labor. But, education is the most important part. Check your areas for unsafe excavation and do not feel afraid to question it. If it looks unsafe, it probably is. Prevention with trench saves tons of lives. If nothing else, take a tench awareness class in order to protect yourself and your crew.
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Permalink Reply by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on
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Hello Down Under Brothers, Saw this cartoon and it made me think of you guys...
Merry Christmas, Mike
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Trench Rescue for the CFA is a bit like Confiend Space Rescue- the calls are so far and few between, it's a hard balancing act to get the right people trained, at the right level, in the right area and then to equip them properly.
I beleive for the fatal Confined Space Rescue in Hamilton in either 07 or 08 (Can't remember when it was!) they responded the local CFA and SES along with Geelong and Ballarat which is a massive hike for them to get to....
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Permalink Reply by Trainer on
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We have several certified including myself, that’s not the problem, we can’t afford the equipment. We can get some of this equipment from 15 miles out and get most of the lumber from our local lumber yard, but the thin form plywood nobody has and it’s like $180 a sheet. We have also had 1 fatality.
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Permalink Reply by Brian Dumser on
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We went through trench rescue training several years ago. In fact I think we're due for another class for those who weren't here then.
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It's amazingly resource hungry in terms of not just personnel, but also timber, tools, etc.
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You can easily spend in excess of $10,000 usd to even get basic trench equipment. We have a trailer that is extremly over loaded with our trench gear. Lots and lots of hydraulic rams. Sheets of Fin Form and everything else that goes along with it. Regional teams help defray costs. You could even look to some of your area construction giants. They are the ones that may need you when the #$%* hits the fan anyhow.
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Yes we belong to a state team, some 40 that are located across Illinois, and pretty much have the equipment with the exception of the lumber, which would take a trailer in it self. The hard stuff to get is the Fin form, sorry for the misnaming I was thinking of concrete forms, the only place we can find it is in another state, I think we decided to use ¾ oak in a pinch. And lutan is right, 1 call in 5 years.
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Check Nations Rent, if you can. We found that they had Fin Form for less than our original supplier did and that was an excavating supplier.
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