Big Rig Rescue

Don’t miss this limited opportunity to attend the best training available for working with some of the area’s foremost towing and recovery professionals and their massive equipment. You’ll learn the safest and most efficient techniques for heavy lifting and stabilization of big rigs involved in collisions with smaller vehicles. Also, learn and practice The 5 Step Discipline for Overturns and Underrides.

This program is a specialized educational

presentation focusing on collisions involving large trucks vs. autos. Obviously this program is relevant to daily activities of responders who may participate in vehicle rescue. The BRR™ program eliminates time consumption while rescuers learn ‘on the job’. Precious minutes of the Golden Hour are saved thus reducing mortality. Rescuers may apply these techniques immediately upon returning to their agency utilizing tools they already possess.

You will learn how to calculate resistances and determine how best to rig, lift, and stabilize the big rigs involved in overturns and underrides. This will improve the safety of all operating at scenes such as this! Otherwise, how do you actually know if you’re operating safely and within the WLL of your equipment? You will learn how to use equipment you already possess for new and safe applications. The BRR training is detail oriented and focused on safety of all involved in a controlled environment. The information provided in this course is unmatched anywhere. All presenters have extensive training, experience, and continue to operate in their field every day. The presenters include heavy recovery operators and technical/heavy rescue providers, who achieved and maintain certification in their respective areas. Also, they’ve successfully completed college level training for instructional methodology. This training isn’t simply a demo of some type of equipment or ‘entertainment’. You will be directly involved with rigging, lifting, and stabilizing big rigs. There will be no opportunity to actually cut/spread/ram the big rigs or autos however.

The hands-on training offers challenges to small groups in a time compressed format, similar to everyday responses. It will be both mentally and physically challenging! Each group is expected to develop a plan of action and execute that plan within a specified time period. Should the initial plan prove unsuccessful, the group is expected to develop an alternate and continue the mission. Careful planning, critical thinking, utilization of classroom learning, and prompt plan execution will be paramount for success. Presenters will guide you through The 5 Step Discipline while challenging you to critically think, evaluate and solve problems.

Future dates for BRR™ training can been found at www.cccc.edu/BRR and follow the links to the Emergency Services Training Center (ESTC) schedule. Do not delay! Each course fills very quickly.

>Full length fire retardant protective clothing meeting NFPA Std for Technical Rescue

>Safety glasses or goggles meeting ANSI Std Z87.1+ (helmet shields are insufficient)

>Protective footgear with impact resistant toe cap meeting NFPA Std for Technical Rescue

For answers to your questions, please contact Landis Phillips, Emergency Services Training Coordinator. Telephone 919.777.777or 919.777.7770, or via email ljphillips@cccc.edu

‘BIG LIFT U’

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You will face very challenging yet realistic scenarios including, concrete mixer vs. smaller vehicle in ditch, fully loaded TT trailer overturn onto an auto, full size RR tanker underride, 25,000 pound mixer drum balanced on an auto, inverted patient removal using air cushions, simulated structural collapse, and multiple overturn/underride situations! The focus will be the effective use of air bag rescue systems (high, medium, & low pressure) and strut/cribbing support. During this training you learn how to safely lift several thousand pound vehicles/objects and how to stabilize them. Are you ready for serious extrication training?

Both programs provide two intensive days combining both classroom and HANDS-ON learning. An extensive reference handout will be provided for each attendee. Anyone wishing to attend must have previous training and considerable experience in vehicle extrication, as these courses are not entry level training. The skills developed meet NFPA Standard 1670, Technician Level.

Photos from previous classes

This training will address the myths and misunderstandings of Hybrid cars/trucks and the dangers involved with them, including collisions and fires. The training is a follow-up to the auto firefighting training. It introduces the attendees to new fuels that are becoming available today. Many of these fuels can not be extinguished using normal extinguishing agents or tactics. It is also an introduction to the new flex-fuel vehicles and the unique dangers they present when involved in fire.

Attendees will be introduced to the new Supplemental Restraint Systems, compressed gas struts, plastic fuel tanks, magnesium drive train parts, and the dangers they present when exposed to fire.

Attendees will be introduced to a new offensive attack that can be employed on any auto, with equipment their department already possesses.

learning. The AV section will include vital points, pictures, and video segments of actual events illustrating dangers involving these systems.

*Attendees must meet NFPA STD #1001 requirements in order to participate in live fire exercises.

Agriculture is one of the most dangerous industries in America. Each year, needless injuries and deaths occur to farmers, family members, farm employees, and rescue personnel. Emergency responders often lack knowledge of the nature of farm machinery, chemicals, and farm structures; in addition, some rescue techniques may actually increase the risk to the victim and rescue personnel. Training and education in the methods of farm/rural rescue are essential for proper response and safety to the rescuer and patient. The main goal of the National Farmedic Training Program developed by Cornell University is to provide rural fire/rescue responders with a systematic approach to farm rescue procedures that address the safety of both patients and responders.

The National FARMEDIC Training Program has been working in agricultural and rural incident response training for over two decades. Initial activities began in 1981 when the New York Farm Bureau, Empire Nine (a regional emergency services training program), Farm Family Insurance Company and rural fire/rescue/EMS personnel got together to discuss the void in farm rescue education. Two troubling regional trends instigated this gathering of forces: (1) farm machinery extrications were often taking a long time - too long - to complete, and (2) rescuers were injured, some fatally, during rescues and fire-ground operations on farms.

From the onset, a train-the-trainer approach was adopted as the strategy to educate rural rescuers to respond to fire and medical emergencies specific to farms. In the 1990's, the National FARMEDIC Training Program partnered with Alfred State College, Alfred, NY, and the NYS Department of Health, Albany, NY. This partnership generated a major grant from U.S. Health and Human Services to train 200 instructors nationwide. Since its inception, more than 28,000 rural fire/rescue/EMS, hospital personnel and farm community members in 48 states and Canada have been trained how to respond to farm emergencies

Those of us who have responded to a difficult farm emergency quickly learn that this type of call can be extremely challenging. Instead of a working in a kitchen - we find ourselves in a silo or grain bin. Instead of a highway - we find ourselves in a muddy field carrying our tools to the scene. Instead of easily removing wreckage from our patient - we find ourselves trying to work on machinery stronger than our own heavy rescue tools. We not only need to be concerned with the patient, but with the hazards that have injured and killed rescuers.

Appropriate training in farm/rural rescue results in better patient outcomes and reduces the likelihood of rescuer injury or death. Some positive results of the National FARMEDIC Training Program are: shorter notification, response, and extrication times; improved first aid, EMS, and hospital care; and fewer rescuer injuries.

The need to educate the farm community is equally important. As rescuers we know that the events of the first minutes of an emergency strongly influence the outcome. We also know that there is often a delay in the notification of emergency services and that response times can be lengthy.

Want to set up a class or have questions???

Contact Instructor Trey Smith at tsmith@rescuenc.com if you have any questions. Or you can reach him at 704-507-6152.