Blind Elevator Shaft Rope System Rescue
Rescuing passengers from a stalled elevator can be challenging. Jeremy Rifflard has tips for creating a rope rescue system for a blind shaft.
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Rope Rescue Transition Techniques onto a Roof with Or Without a High Anchor
Jeremy Rifflard offers some tech rescue transition techniques that will help your firefighters operate more safely and effectively.
Trench Rescue: Controlling Soil
Each trench collapse is unique. Jeremy Rifflard on training on using a variety of techniques to succeed.
Finding Last-Chance Anchors Inside Structures
Jeremy Rifflard identifies ways to locate anchors when firefighters are trapped inside a structure and must bail out.
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Cutting Concrete Floors
Jeremy Rifflard looks at these key fire department practices as well as the tools with which they should use for cutting concrete floors at fire buildings.
Using Pickets as Stable Anchors
Steel pickets are easy to install, and the picket is a versatile tool for firefighters and rescue technicians, writes Jeremy Rifflard.
Stabilizing Tilt-Up Construction with the Double Insertion Point Raker Shore
Because of the increased wall height, floor loads, and the weight of tilt-up panels, the typical single insertion point raker may be ineffective for shoring such structures. The two insertion points involved in each double insertion point raker shore allow for better lateral load distribution to the ground and a higher, more stable, insertion point.
Prebuild Wood Shores for Efficiency
Jeremy Rifflard and William White offer readers their department’s experiences with these easy-to-make, low-cost structural support devices.
Odd Mechanical Advantage Rope Systems with Progress Capture
Jeremy Rifflard explains how to construct hauling systems with a mechanical advantage ranging from 1:1 to 5.1.
Firefighters Respond to Paducah (KY) Truck into Building
Jeremy Rifflard shares a response by Paducah (KY) firefighters and rescue team members to an incident in which a pickup truck crashed into an abandoned store.
Getting an Immobilized Patient to the Ground: The Ladder Pivot Rescue
Use this technique when you have to remove a patient on a backboard from a second- or third-story window or the roof and you can't wait for a technical rescue team. JEREMY RIFFLARD
Responding to Suspended Scaffold Emergencies
Understanding scaffolding components will help responders when they are called to an emergency involving a scaffold collapse. JEREMY RIFFLARD