bae
4-19-14, 8:26pm
Just got home.
Several months of 3-day-a-week training at the Technical Rescue Academy, and today was the final field practical exam, starting at 7am, each evolution done as a team of two, responding to calls all over the region, run for time and correctness:
- rapid intervention team search + rescue of a downed firefighter in a commercial building, full gear/SCBA, blacked out, instructors adding stress
- search & rescue for lost person in forest, reporting party on-scene, anxious and not-so-reliable
- call to a "fall from cliff onto beach", area semi-vague. search/locate patient, access/assess patient, develop lowering system for gear/rescuers, lower Stokes, package patient, develop raising system, get patient into ambulance
- vehicle crash - evaluate/report scene, stabilize vehicle, extricate patient with cool tools.
We all passed with flying colors, and they gave us these two stickers for our helmets so our officers can find the certified people in the dark, and then we had a BBQ:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-MLGQj5DoVxY/U1L5Tc5UitI/AAAAAAAAKPU/0VKAwvbMgSA/s640/Awesomized.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-IpfSaAowjG0/U1L5SO_SHHI/AAAAAAAAKPk/HvdOcIu0NQ4/s640/Awesomized.jpg
Several months of 3-day-a-week training at the Technical Rescue Academy, and today was the final field practical exam, starting at 7am, each evolution done as a team of two, responding to calls all over the region, run for time and correctness:
- rapid intervention team search + rescue of a downed firefighter in a commercial building, full gear/SCBA, blacked out, instructors adding stress
- search & rescue for lost person in forest, reporting party on-scene, anxious and not-so-reliable
- call to a "fall from cliff onto beach", area semi-vague. search/locate patient, access/assess patient, develop lowering system for gear/rescuers, lower Stokes, package patient, develop raising system, get patient into ambulance
- vehicle crash - evaluate/report scene, stabilize vehicle, extricate patient with cool tools.
We all passed with flying colors, and they gave us these two stickers for our helmets so our officers can find the certified people in the dark, and then we had a BBQ:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-MLGQj5DoVxY/U1L5Tc5UitI/AAAAAAAAKPU/0VKAwvbMgSA/s640/Awesomized.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-IpfSaAowjG0/U1L5SO_SHHI/AAAAAAAAKPk/HvdOcIu0NQ4/s640/Awesomized.jpg