Responder vs. Machinery

Description: First responders are seldom called to incidents involving entrapments or impalements. Due to these low frequency, high risk events, it is imperative that responders develop a patient removal and care mindset that is often talked about, but seldom exercised. Participants will learn various extrication methods utilizing hand, pneumatic, and power tools that will help achieve successful outcomes as you rotate through stations that includes scenarios such as entangled digits, limb entrapments, and impalements. You will gain an appreciation for tools that should be carried as part of the tool compliment carried on an engine company and are not commonly utilized in this discipline. Participants are required to utilize structural PPE, eye/ear protection during the training evolutions.