Tactical Rescue
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Several departments answered the call by responding with rescue teams, equipment and other gear needed to protect both first responders on site and the rescue victim
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Greenville County Emergency Management first responders finished training for a water rescue only to immediately use those skills in a real-life situation
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The process took about an hour and involved two engines, one ladder truck, police units and an ambulance
The potential for a confusing operational picture existed during the opening minutes of the response to the latest school shooting tragedy in Santa Clarita, California
The rescue required the efforts of all 11 on-duty personnel using technical rescue skills and equipment to safely bring the man down
County officials hope to have 12 additional tactical paramedics by the end of September
The new protective gear, funded by a $34,000 state EMS grant, is specifically designed for members to respond to an active attacker situation
A new Florida law will give paramedics responding to situations deemed as high-risk the ability to carry more than medical supplies
The bill would require paramedics to obtain a concealed-weapons license and to complete LE-established training and deployment practices
High-fidelity, full-scale exercises for SWAT and EMS at Urban Shield 2016 create a unique and memorable MCI and active shooter training experience
Once the shooter is dead or apprehended, the top mission for police and EMS is to stop the dying from bleeding and airway compromise
Among the possible motives, according to the FBI: workplace violence or terrorism
Firefighters had to chip away at sections to fit a stretcher through to reach the caver, who suffered back injuries and was evacuated by helicopter
Responders worked for nearly two hours to free her after she slipped from a ladder and fell 30 feet
Responders performed a rope rescue after a passerby noticed a motorcycle over the embankment of a road
He rescued a female BASE jumper who was slammed into the steel beams of the bridge, and was dangling at 500 feet above the Snake River
More than 20 rescue units spent nearly an hour and a half trying to extract the worker from the trench
The thin ice the boy was standing on looked like it could have buckled at any moment
After scaling the cliff, medic Marco Barros told 4-year-old Sebastion Johnson to think of Spiderman as he loaded the boy into a rescue basket
EMS World Keynote speaker Alexander Eastman explains what EMS needs to get to the scene quicker to improve victim survivability
Bob Baribeau and his team of six technical rescuers took nearly two hours of climbing through a crack in a jumble of boulders to reach her
He was trapped 50 feet in the air; responders devised a complicated rope system and a medic provided aid to the man during the rescue
The worker, who was conscious when he was pulled from the ditch, was taken to the hospital in serious condition
When you’re on an operation and you can only take what you can carry, what do you choose?
