Paul DeBartolomeo and company demonstrate a method for constructing a 4:1 hauling system to remove a firefighter who has fallen through the floor. #5668856968001
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@sethkeller72775 ай бұрын
Interesting use of the handcuff knot, I like it. Nicely done.
@bzab334 Жыл бұрын
Thx from Springfield IL. Great video, going to use this info for our training next week
@Rescue-mt7fl8 ай бұрын
Interesting drill and a little more addition of tools to the tool box. The issue is looking at where and when this type of drill is realistic. Most of these drills have little basis in reality to what is actually occurring on the foreground. First, why did the firefighter fall through the floor? In the vast majority of cases it is because the floor has given way as a result of fire beneath the floor. When the floor collapses, three things typically happen. First, a blow torch comes through the floor from the fire below. Making the hole the firefighter fell through uninhabitable for a rescuer. Second, the hole is often not as large as what it was to allow the firefighter through. Lightweight flooring actually expands as the softened OSB allows the weight to pass through and flexes back. This weakened floor will most likely have no ability to support a group of heavy firefighters to operate around and in proximity the hole ( that is likely getting weaker from the fire). Third, in the overwhelming majority of cases presented the firefighter is not incapacitated by the 9-10 foot fall. The atmosphere from the fire will force them to find refuge elsewhere in the basement. The complicated rope based rescue techniques require a few things to be successful, the rope must be readily available. The methodology employed must be able to be done in low to no visibility with fire gloves on. Nylon rope requires very low temperatures to be viable. The most likely technique to manage a real life fall through is aggressive fire attack to the basement by whatever openings are available, exterior windows, tenable stairs, high volume piercing nozzles (multiple at flow rates above 150), and implementation of res he through the stairs or ladders through openings you create into protected voids. Window conversions through the subfloor are very effective. But all manpower intensive. Just use common sense to the drills we create and commit our time to train to. Stay safe.
@mikeyscott33783 ай бұрын
Some of these drills are used for extreme cases in where you are trying to exit the structure . This obviously would’ve been a mayday call but in case there were no other options this is what they had to do so it’s good to know these things
@Rescue-mt7fl3 ай бұрын
@@mikeyscott3378 I appreciate your point. To me, our training time is extremely limited and precious. For the volunteer firefighter, many train 1x-2x a month. A few may do more. In this, that leaves a typical volunteer 30-40 hours a year to train ( if we consider they train on holidays, don’t take a vacation or work gets in the way. ) for a career guy this may equate to 2 hours a shift with shift schedules, vacations etc, this is 18 hours a month (only if calls, meetings, inspections etc don’t interfere). Furring this limited time, we can practice on the calls we actually run and the scenarios that NIOSH and Project Mayday have demonstrated to us are the most realistic. First I would say practice on how to prevent going over a burnt out floor in a residence. Identify basements and crawl spaces and signs of fire involvement. Spend those precious few training hours in prevention. Then train on the highest probability of an actual emergency. If there’s no fire involvement, rescue the guy through the stairs, then ask why our training to prevent this failed. If they fall through a floor with fire involvement, find another way to him. But please don’t use that precious training time on hypotheticals instead of covering your basics until you can’t get your basics wrong. ( hint, will take more than your limited training hours). Just my thoughts after looking at trainings I’ve been a part of over 3 decades on the job. Stay safe and keep training brother.