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Read the blog posts of experts travelling the world to train and exchange knowledge with rescuers from all nationalities.
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Electric vehicles: More danger to rescuers?
28 Mar 2020Electric vehicles are now a common sight on every type of road and their number, including hybrids, is steadily increasing. Statistically, this means that there is a greater chance that, when an...
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Extrication training: Practice how you play
28 Feb 2020What does that mean? When sports teams practice, do they leave protective gear in the locker room? Do they omit rules just because there are no judges watching? No, they practice as if it’s a real...
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Lifting bags: A simple job, or not?
31 Jan 2020We regularly hear or read in the news about accidents in which people become trapped under an object or a vehicle. This may be due to a collapsed building, a stack of shipping containers that has...
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Multi-Agency Training: Combining Ingredients For A Successful Rescue Operation
23 Dec 2019A new decade begins. Perhaps we should begin a new era of training as well. Not that we train the wrong way, but instead of focusing on honing our individual specialties, how about we take a closer...
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A Different Angle on Cutting Modern B Pillars
29 Oct 2019The 2020 model year vehicles are now in full production. Of course, there are new updated safety systems for us to study. We also see continued advancement of metals and reinforcing structures, but...
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Thinking Outside The Box
20 Sep 2018I have previously blogged about the need to practice cross ramming and how effective it can be at creating space and easing the extrication process when the vehicle has suffered massive intrusion e.g...
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Educate yourself!
20 Apr 2018In my last blog I briefly touched upon the importance of a cyclic approach to training to allow less experienced rescuers to develop. Becoming a firefighter/rescuer is a huge undertaking requiring a...
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The Importance of the Training Cycle
30 Mar 2018Regular readers of my blog (and yes, there are some!) will know what great emphasis I place on good quality training. I am passionate about upskilling people and feel very strongly that instructors...
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Internal Space Creation: Use Your Head... Hands
09 Mar 2018Space creation is an integral part of freeing any entrapped (pinned) patient and is a process that, in my view, essentially has two distinct areas: external and internal space creation. External space...
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Outside the Box Training
16 Feb 2018As you know, training is my passion and I believe that we should grasp every opportunity to improve our skills and knowledge when it comes to technical and medical rescue. Sometimes training can...