This seemed like a good time to review the need for aerial apparatus at industrial fires. The focus here is the municipal aerial apparatus.
One important item in the surface water rescue standard (as in all the others) is the choice and utilization of the appropriate PPE.
IRECA's rope rescue competition in Houston helped this operator learn to do more with less.
Responders use the plant's own mobile crane to transfer the patient to the ground.
Firefighters rescue driver from car overturned in retention pond.
The vat reportedly contained liquid chromic acid.
Large platforms do have maneuverability issues, and do take time to set up. This has to be compared with the time, pumps, hose, foam, and staffing needed to develop a 5,000 gpm stream.
In FDNY manuals, there are techniques to use ladders to: bridge over alleyways (also used over excavations), to replace burnt-out stairs, and to bridge over fences (utilizing two ladders lashed together).
Aside from the obvious use of ladders for climbing, the use of ladders as a means of supporting a rope-based rescue system appears to have been born during the Second World War.
A RIT team is meant to render immediate aid to the people who have a chance to affect the outcome of the transpiring emergency.
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