Firefighter Extrication Training

Knowledge of our equipment is paramount, especially when it comes to working around patients. Though we’ll never have the need to pick up an egg, it’s important to train so we can understand the very edge of where the power starts and stops, for when the time comes that it’s life or death. Many departments use their spreaders for this drill, but we used our cutters, because they actually have a point on the ends, making it harder. Once again my assistant, Neal, performs the task.