Training Minutes: Protester Barrier Device
Mark Gregory and members of PL Vulcan Training demonstrate how to overcome an improvised barrier that chains two protesters together.
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Odd Rescues Revisited: Child Stuck in a Swing
Familiarizing yourself with the playground equipment can help your crews when it comes to resuces involving trapped children.
Training Minutes: Extremity Caught in Machine
Pat Nichols of P.L. Vulcan Fire Training Concepts discusses rescuing a victim who has a hand trapped in an industrial-type machine.
Training Minutes: Hand Trapped in Press
Mark Gregory and other members of P.L. Vulcan Fire Training Concepts demonstrate some methods of removing a victim's hand from a press using a training prop.
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Training Minutes: Ring Removal Using Cutting Tools
Mark Gregory, Pat Nichols, and Phil Higgins of P.L. Vulcan Fire Training Concepts consider alternative methods to removing a ring from a patient's hand.
Training Minutes: Ladder Lever for Victim Removal
Tom Gies, Chris Higgins, and Chris Black demonstrate how to create a improvised lever system to remove a victim trapped underneath a vehicle.
Training Minutes: Tech Rescue: Non-invasive Ring Removal
Mark Gregory and Phil Higgins of P.L. Vulcan Fire Training Concepts review ring removal techniques.
Training Minutes: Tech Rescue: Hand in Meat Grinder
Members of P.L. Vulcan Fire Training Concepts discuss rescue approaches to dealing with a patient's hand caught in a meat grinder.
Odd Jobs: The Impalement Incident
Mark Gregory looks at this rare response that firefighters need to know could eventually happen in their district.
Training Minutes: Tungsten Ring Removal
Tom Gies and Mark Gregory of PL Vulcan examine some considerations when removing a tungsten ring from a patient.
Training Minutes: Rescuing a Victim from Auger Entrapment, Part 2
In this “Homegrown” Training Minutes video, Mark Gregory, Jim Sandas, and other members of PL Vulcan continue their look at operational details for rescuing a victim with an extremity trapped in an auger.
Training Minutes: Rescuing a Victim from Auger Entrapment
Mark Gregory and company from PL Vulcan Fire Training Concepts review a training prop to train firefighters on removing a victim whose limb has become entrapped in an auger.