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Manchester VT Fire DepartmentRetrains for Technical Rope Rescue

Weybridge Cave Rescue - 8/6/2013

Is Fail-Safe Really Safe? - published in Advanced Rescue Technology, June/July 2004

Pictures

Rescue Training for Vermont Fire, EMS, SAR and Industrial Teams
Training, Consulting, Evaluation & Rescue Program Development

Robert Riversong, Rescue Specialist








aVERT (at) Ponds-Edge.net

Low & High-Angle Rope Rescue, 

River Rescue, Backcountry Rescue, Cave Rescue

BASIC:
basic knots – simple anchors

low-angle rappeling & belaying

INTERMEDIATE:

more knots – anchor systems

steep-angle litter raising, lowering, & belaying systems

ADVANCED:

loads, forces & vectors

multi-point load-distributing anchors

back-ties & directionals – artificial high anchors

compound & complex mechanical advantage pulley systems

patient pick-offs – vertical litter lowering & raising systems – offsets & highlines

CUSTOM:

curriculum and practicum created to meet your specific needs

Training History

Departments, Squads, Teams  Trained

   Berkshire Mountain Search & Rescue Team (MA)

   Upper Valley Wilderness Response Team (NH/VT)

   Readsboro VT FD

   Wardsboro VT FD

   Whitingham VT Ambulance

   Yankee Atomic high-angle rescue team (3x MA)

   Firefighter 1 ropes segment (Bennington VT)

   Pownal VT FD

   Rowe MA FD

   Westminster VT FD

   VT Cave Rescue Association

   Manchester VT Rescue Squad

   MA Task Force 1 FEMA USAR Team

   Elliot Hospital Paramedic tech rescue training (NH)

   NCRC Orientation to Cave Rescue (5x, NY & VT)

   Warren VT FD

   Mad River Valley Rescue & mutual aid squads (VT)

   Manchester VT Fire Department

Reference Letter from Yankee Atomic

Thank you for the excellent training and advice you provided to Yankee Atomic Electric Company for a site high angle rescue team.  The training provided was timely and site specific.  The training program you developed addressed our specific objectives and allowed us to form a rescue team that would be capable of providing scene stabilization and removal of an accident victim from the top of our containment structure or any roof area at the facility.  Your program was tailored to meet these objectives and we appreciate the time and effort you provided to allow us to form this team in such a short period of time.

Everyone who took the training was completely satisfied and felt confident that if there was an accident they were prepared to respond.  To an individual they expressed that your training was some of the best that has been provided since working here.

We also appreciate the advice you provided in the purchase of equipment and recommended changes to the facility.  Your experience and expertise in this area was apparent to all of us.

You can feel free to use us as a reference at any time.

Edwin L. May

Rescue Team Leader

Yankee Atomic Electric Company

Rowe, MA