Cave-in Disaster Response Program

Cave-in Disaster Response Program

The Fairfax County, VA, Fire and Rescue Department is developing a Cave-in Disaster Response Program to improve the department’s capability to handle below ground entrapment incidents such as trench cave-ins, subgrade structural collapses, and foundation construction accidents.

For information, contact the public affairs section of the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department, 4031 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030.

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.