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Grant Schwalbe's Blog – July 2016 Archive (1)

Civilian Victim Removal

When training on search, victim removal often gets very little attention. Victims are most often found in one of two places: a path of egress or in a bedroom. Logically, if the victim were 5-10 feet inside the front door, we would simply drag him/her out quickly. But if the victim is found in a bedroom behind a closed door we must be careful not to do additional harm to this victim. We say it often on our classes, “If you crawl through a smoky, hot hallway and open up a bedroom door and…

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Added by Grant Schwalbe on July 13, 2016 at 6:30am — No Comments

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