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.

‘BIG LIFT U’

March 27/28 and September 18/19, 2010

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.

Attendance is limited to ensure maximum hands-on for each attendee.

For registration information, please contact:

Landis Phillips, Emergency Services Training Director
Central Carolina Community College
Emergency Services Training Center
3000 Airport Rd.
Sanford, NC 27330

Telephone: 919.776.5601; Fax: 919.777.7769

Email: ljphillips@cccc.edu

Course Overview

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.

Prior training and experience in vehicle extrication and hand / hydraulic tool operations.

Here is an excerpt from Billy's philosophy on FIVE STEP DISCIPLINE FOR OVERTURNS/UNDERRIDES.

Up righting a loaded cement mixer, perhaps lifting the rear of a loaded van trailer is an everyday task for heavy recovery operators. Usually these tasks are well within their capabilities. Place someone who is injured and trapped in an auto underneath such a vehicle and a challenge begins. While heavy recovery operators may easily overcome this challenge it may prove a formidable challenge for fire/rescue responders. This challenge may critically be a matter of life and death for the victims of the accident, and prove dangerous to emergency responders also.

To provide a discipline for success regarding the overturn of a larger vehicle onto a smaller one, or the under ride of a smaller vehicle beneath a larger one, I promote The 5 Step Discipline. This discipline is detailed in the BIG RIG RESCUE™-Level 1 program. I will attempt to provide an overview of this discipline in the information that follows. It is an effort to provide both the heavy recovery operator and fire/rescue responder a simple list of steps to follow when faced by such an intimidating sight.

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.