Training Minutes: High-Point System for Firefighter Rescue

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In this Training Minutes video, Paul DeBartolomeo and company demonstrate how to set up a simple 2:1 system using ropes and a 24-foot portable ladder for removing a down firefighter from an upper floor.

Watch in the player below. More Training Minutes videos: emberly.fireengineering.com/video/training-minutes

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