There are frequent situations with people trapped, where the rescue team is required to move or remove all portions of the roof to allow the occupants to be extricated. This University of Extrication ...

Removing a roof is a fairly easy and uncomplicated task. Responders simply protect the patient and interior responder, remove or displace interior trim at cut locations, and–through the coordination ...

OBJECTIVE: Rescue personnel shall develop a protocol for total roof removal involving a convertible with an automatically retractable hardtop roof. TASK: The rescue team shall study the design and ...

If you have attended my Tactical Extrication Course, you know that I strive for thinking operators. Not all entrapments will be the same. They will range from a quick job to downright challenging ones ...

A man was injured when his vehicle drove underneath the trailer of a semi truck in Ferndale. Fire crews had to cut the roof of the vehicle in order to get the man out safely. The man suffered minor ...