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Dave Dalrymple

Residence.: Clinton New Jersey

Department:: RWJUH EMS , Clinton EMS/Rescue (volunteer) & RoadwayRescue (my educational consulting company)

Title/rank:: Rescue Services Captain (Clinton EMS/Rescue)

Years of public service:: 25

Agency structure:: Paid EMS

Professional Qualifications:: All sorts ;)

Topics you provide training for:: Vehicle Rescue, Motorsports Rescue

Areas of expertise:: Vehicle Technology concerns, Vehicle Rescue, Motorsports Rescue - performance rally is my speciality, Extrication challenges

Bio:: David Dalrymple is a career EMS provider for the RWJUH Emergency Medical Services in New Brunswick, NJ and he is a volunteer Rescue Services Captain for Clinton EMS/Rescue in Clinton, NJ. He has been actively involved with emergency services for 26 years.
Dave is the education chair of the Transportation Emergency Rescue Committee - US (TERC). This committee is charged with developing educational materials and performing research & development on transportation rescue. Dave is certified as an International level extrication assessor and serves on the Expert Technical Advisory Board of the IETRI as their Road Traffic Accident advisor. He has taught and assessed in North America, Europe, UK and South Africa. He is also a member of the IAFC Specialized Technical Rescue Committee. In 2007 he received the Harvey Grant award for excellence in rescue.
Certified as a fire service instructor by the State of New Jersey, Dave has been actively teaching transportation rescue topics for over 15 years. He is currently the lead instructor for vehicle rescue programs at the Hunterdon County Emergency Services Training Center and is the executive educator for RoadwayRescue LLC, a dynamic educational team for transportation rescue training. Dave is certified by ICET as a registered International SAVER instructor.
Dave volunteers as a fire/rescue technician for the Sports Car Club of America-Northern New Jersey region and is actively involved in emergency response at performance rally events with Rally America. Dave is a member of the International Council on Motorsport Sciences.
Dave has developed & delivered educational seminars as well as published articles on transportation rescue topics on a local, regional, national and international level. He currently writes the “Extrication Tactics” column for Fire Engineering magazine. Dave also is a contributing author for the Firefighter I & II textbook and is currently working on a 3 DVD educational series on vehicle technology & rescue from Pennwell.

Web site:: roadwayrescue.com

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Actually besides Hurst & Holmatro, TNT, Genesis & ResQTec has "new vehicle techology" friendly cutters. Basically besides higher & higher cutting forces needed all these cutter have dif... Read More »

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At 5:01pm on July 17th, 2008, Andy Fossum said…: would u be the best person in this community to ask about nitrogen tire filling?. if not, can you direct me to whom i should chat with.

At 11:27pm on July 8th, 2008, Todd McKee said…: Thanks for the FE videos keep up the great work. Feel free to look at the hazmat group called training and news. Todd McKee

At 9:21pm on June 14th, 2008, Art Sutherland said…: Dave I seen some of your videos and they are just what we need, we only have had the Jaws of Life the past 2 years. Is there anywhere that we can download the videos and use them for training.

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