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Permalink Reply by Lance Piatt on June 14, 2010 at 10:34am

Great questions... NFPA 1670 deals with manufactures responsibility for gear and 1006 deals with personal responsibility. Training logs and such are or should be mandatory. People can get killed or injured whether training or live rescue; they are the same. You train for what you do; cutting this means you are not prepared for the live rescues. Having back up gear (mainly rope and soft interfacing) might be a good idea, but having a full set of training cache and on the truck... is to me, a bit overboard. In fact, training is the perfect place to make sure ALL gear is up to speed and in proper order. Much of your decision will depend on how much your train and how you you train. So as long as the all the gear is "bomber" and there is no questions, then you should be fine.

Granted, there are some who would not agree with my thoughts here and that is great. Love to hear other thoughts.

Give Matt a call at Rescue Response Gear 888 600 9116 or email him at mattadams@rescueresponse.com

Lance

Permalink Reply by Mike "Lapo" Lapotasky on June 15, 2010 at 1:54pm

Rope logs should be maintained and need to be kept current. When rope is shock loaded or loaded by baskets and patients or exposed to chemicals or chaffing on an actual rescue, it is important for the rope to be cleaned, inspected, and considered for removal from service.

We lost $2000 in rope on one high-angle cliff rescue. All ropes, cords and webbing that were involved in systems used were removed from servide as life safety rope.

Permalink Reply by TC on June 19, 2010 at 4:55pm

Why did you guys remove all of the gear from service? What caused you guys to decide to do this?