Video: Bumper Line Hoseload

Michael Testa, Deputy Chief of Operations at Five Points (DE) Fire Company, shared a video on packing and deployment of the modified Scorpion 150-foot bumper line.

Inspired by Dave Hall of Delaware City Fire Company 15 and Kyle Pedicone of Hockessin Fire Company 19, it stores clean with no donut roll, no multiple loops to fumble, and no flaking of line.

 

Hand entrapped in rope gripper

Elevator Rescue: Rope Gripper Entrapment

Mike Dragonetti discusses operating safely while around a Rope Gripper and two methods of mitigating an entrapment situation.
Delta explosion

Two Workers Killed, Another Injured in Explosion at Atlanta Delta Air Lines Facility

Two workers were killed and another seriously injured in an explosion Tuesday at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport.