Technical Rescue

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Does your department have technical rescue capabilities? What kind of problems are you facing in regards to staffing, training and equipment? If you have any gadgets or special techniques, this is the place to share them.
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SARS - Airlines

by Kevin Schroeder

Apr 29, 2008

Looking for ideas on the storage and deployment of supplied air respirator airlines. We don't have room for reels, and simply coiling the lines leads to knots and a mess. Have tried the "figure 8" coil with limited success. Any ideas out there? What do you guys do that works? When you put four resucers (2 in / 2 out) on 200' each, airline handling becomes an obsession.
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    Jim Rigstad

    Alex what you are describing is a linemans coil. Kevin the sheaths supplied from Rescue Tech allow you to place the airline and the comm line inside the sheath and velcro the rescue rope along the outside. This allows you to still use the rope as a belay for vertical entries and still keep a nice tight package.

    May 5, 2008

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    Steve Disick

    I have found that the figure 8 coil works well with both the airline and com line in a sheath. The coil should be done inside a large bag so it can be carried and transported easily and keeps the coil together. Large hockey bags and duffels have worked well for us.

    May 6, 2008

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    we use 2 inch tubular webbing per rescuer set this works well for our team. It protects your lines. Then everything is ready to deploy right out of a bag or off a real. Also gives you a quick way color code everything if you have to trouble shoot something. Accountability is easier to. you can have a separate color per team or per rescuer. Good luck Hope this has been some help.

    Nov 22, 2008