Shale Safety wrap up

Thanks to everyone who came out to the 2017 Shale Safety Institute. Our crew was split between two locations. Lance was helping with the Auto Extrication class while Justin and I were doing the Difficult Access Rescue and Heavy lifting. All of the classes had a good bit of students in them and student reviews were all positive.

 The Shale Safety Institute is a great training event provided by a partnership between Belmont College and Hess. Belmont College and Hess have a great thing going with this event. There were great door prizes, t-shirts and a goody bag for the students along with the education they provided.

The Difficult Access Rescue class had students hanging from a rope and doing an auto extrication. We were simulating a car that went over a high wall or a step hill. The main focus for students is to be working from a rope to do rescue tasks. The other focus was for the students to think outside the box. Most of the students have done vehicle extrication or rope rescue but not they've never done it together. The link below is a short video of scenario the students were faced with.

Difficult Access Rescue

Also here's a short video of the Hurst eDraulic in action during the class.
Hurst eDraulic in action

The other class we did was a heavy lifting class. We staged a dummy under a tractor trailer and made the students lift the truck and get the dummy out. We also stacked a tractor trailer on a car and then stabilized the tractor and extricated a victim from the car. The main point here was getting the students to think about what was going on and where they needed to lift or stabilize each vehicle. The other take away from this class was showing the lifting capabilities of the rotator tow truck and the speed at which they can work. Wat hung the rotator work is a thing of beauty. They are an amazing machine with lots of capabilities. Get out and work with the tow trucks in your area. They are a great resource.

Lance did a class called vehicle extrication. In that class they used new tools and did basic extrication techniques from door removal, roof removal and a rip and blitz. This class reviewed the basic of extrication which was a review for some and nephew for others. Here's a link to one of our friends Jeff Woodarcyk setting off a side curtain air bag during the class.
Side curtain air bag demo

You need to continue to persue education and training in the fire service. If you think you know it all it's time to retire. Opputuities like the Shale Safety Institute is a great opportunity for you to learn more about the fire service. Keep training and perusing education. Remember to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

Shale Safety

The 2017 Shale Safety Institute is coming up on October 7th, 2017 at Belmont College. There are tons of good fire and EMS continuing education classes and it's all free. Here is an awesome opportunity to get some quality continuing education for absolutely free. There will be also be door prizes and they will feed you lunch.

This year I will be doing a two classes. Both of my classes will be off site at Bill's Towing. The morning session I will be doing a class called Difficult Access Rescue and in the afternoon I will be doing a class called Heavy Lifting class. In  the Difficult Access Rescue class I will be hanging firefighters from a rope system and having them try to perform a vehicle extrication. This is ot your evry day rescue run and it will be challenging but exciting.

The second class is titled Heavy Lifting. This class will have some kind of heavy object on top of a car. The firefighters will have to figure out how to lift that object off of the car to be able to do some sort of rescue. This class also will show the importance of having a good working relationship with the towing company. We will show the firefighters the capabilities of the towing industry and how the tow industry can help with the rescue.

I am excited to be doing these classes. I learn from every class that I do and love being able to provide that education to others. If you are curious as to how to sign up follow the link below.

http://www.belmontcollege.edu/fireems/ 

Thanks
R.C.

600 likes

We just hit 600 likes on our Facebook page! The entire crew is excited that we hit this small milestone in our social media career. We hope everyone continues to share our posts, make comments on our posts and tell your friends about our page. We are striving to pass on more and more info on social media. Don't forget we have a YouTube account, an Instagram page and a twitter page. Stay engaged in our social media pages and if you have questions or comments fire them away. Thanks for following along.

R.C.

So what is The Rescue Boss about?

So what is The Rescue Boss about? The Rescue Boss is a group of four friends that have a passion for the fire service. Because of that passion and the drive to pay it forward we decided to start this social media campaign. We share stories that we find interesting on Facebook. We share pictures and videos from things that we are doing on Twitter and Instgram. We also do live videos where we discuss fire service topics or we share things that we are doing. None of us claim to be experts in any topic but rather a bunch of guys that want to help educate firefighters everywhere. We hope that you are enjoying what we are doing and if you have any questions or comments don't be affraid to contact us. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at The Rescue Boss.

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Lance Winstel
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Through this blog we will be discussing fire service topics. No one in this group considers themselves an expert. We are all a bunch of guys that love the fire service. Our main goal is to pay it forward and we are trying to leave the fire service better than we found it. We will be posting on the different social media sites as well as making videos and posting them. If you have any topic that you would like us to discuss fire us an email.