Vehicle and Machinery Rescue Technician

Catalog description

This course presents the student with opportunities to develop specific rescue skills applicable to common passenger vehicles and simple small machines (Level I) as well as rescue skills applicable to commercial or heavy vehicles, incidents involving complex extrication processes or multiple uncommon concurrent hazards, and incidents involving heavy machinery (Level II). Specific rescue skills include planning for a vehicle or machinery incident, performing on-going incident size-up, establishing scene safety zones, establishing fire protection, stabilizing vehicles or machines, isolating potentially harmful energy sources, determining access and egress points, creating access and egress openings, disentangling victims, removing packaged victims, and terminating vehicle or machinery rescue incidents. This course meets Sections 6.4.1 and 6.4.2 of NFPA 1001: Chapter 4, Chapter 5 (Sections 5.1 through 5.5), and Chapter 10 of NFPA 1006 Standard for Technical Rescuer Professional Qualifications Level II and Chapters 4, 8, and 12 of NFPA 1670 Standard Operations and Training for Technical Search and Rescue Incidents Levels I & II.