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Hi, my name's Alex Cordonnier. This is my Eagle Project from March 2012,
and next I'm going to walk you through some of the training maneuvers.
One of the primary purposes of this training prop is for firefighters to practice
bailout maneuvers when they need to exit a structure quickly.
In the video you're watching, this firefighter is using the tool-in-the-wall method to
secure his webbing
and rappel to safety.
In the next two clips, you'll see the haligan in the corner of the window method for
securing your webbing,
as well as opening a wall and wrapping a stud
to secure your webbing and rappel to safety.
In this clip, two exterior firefighters are dropping a webbing loop to a third
firefighter,
who uses it as a step to exit the structure.
Here we have a firefighter creating a step using a haligan tool in order to
exit the structure.
Here you see a firefighter using a six-foot pike pole
and his webbing
to create a loop and exit the structure.
In rooms with high windows, you may be able to kick holes in the wall and climb
to a safe exit.
In this scenario, we have a down firefighter
in a basement with a high-rise window.
The two rescuers are tending to him. The first thing they want to do is make him
as low profile as possible,
so they're going to remove his helmet and set it aside.
Next they're going to roll him onto his side
and loosen and the shoulder strap and the waist strap
to begin the process of removing his air pack.
Next, a rescuer from the outside will hand through an attic ladder
with the feet first and the feet facing up that will prevent them from getting
caught in the window as you're removing the firefighter.
You'll notice the rescuers are using an axe handle to lay the ladder across.
This will give them some room to get their gloved hands underneath the ladder to
lift.
As they roll the firefighter onto the ladder, they'll remove the other side's straps
and pull the air pack off of him, leaving him on his breathing air.
You then want to put the air pack above the firefighter's head
and secure his hands in the superman position above his head along with the air pack.
At this point you want to check his feet to make sure his feet are
close to one of the rungs of the ladder
so when you lift him,
he won't have far to slide.
As they lift the head and hand it to a rescuer on the outside of the building,
they can then go to the feet of the ladder,
lift him,
and slide him out the window. As you slide him out the window, you have to be
careful of things that might have fallen through the ladder such as flashlights
or air pack straps.
As his feet approach the window, you may need to push his feet up so they don't get
pinched between the
rung of the ladder and the windowsill.
This training prop also has a Denver attachment in order to practice the Denver drill.
In this clip, you'll see we have a down firefighter right inside a very narrow
space
inside a window.
Rescuer number one enters the structure
over the top of the victim,
works his way to his feet.
Rescuer one will
attempt to roll the victim and
sit him upright to leave room for rescuer two to come in behind the victim and help
extract him.
Once rescuer one makes room behind the victim, rescuer two comes in using the
victim's bottle as support, positions himself
behind the victim, sitting
flat on the ground with his knees bent.
Rescuer one then grabs a hold of the air packs straps,
and the first move is to get the victim on top of rescuer two's knees.
Rescuer two has a hold of the bottom of the bottle,
supporting him.
Once the victim is on
the knees, rescuer one goes down,
gets underneath the legs of the victim.
On a coordinated count, both
rescuers lift the victim to the window,
where an outside rescuer can then reach in and help.
The key is to make sure the bottle clears the windowsill.
In this clip, the firefighter is practicing his vent-enter-search
technique,
where he takes the six-foot pike pole,
removes the window and all the glass,
extends the pike pole into the room as a reference point for his search,
uses the haligan to sweep the floor for victims,
sound the floor for integrity,
enter the structure,
look under the smoke to find the door so he can close it and preserve the
environment.