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Monday Night Training Continues With Stokes Basket Training
By Deputy Fire Chief Dan Brooks
February 16, 2010
This past Monday Night, after members helped get some last remaining things together for the Auction this Saturday, members gathered around Rescue 33 to review the new and updated rope and rope rescue equipment. Members reviewed the proper way to "lash" a patient into a "Stokes Basket" in order to get them out of the situation they are in. For example if a car was to go down an embankment, a sledder breaks a leg at the bottom of a hill, or even if someone falls down the steps in their basement.....this is a way to safely get them to the EMS personnel and the ambulance in order to get them to the Hospital. This training will be followed up by another training night reviewing various rigging setups such as the "Z-rig" and "piggyback z-rig" setups in order to actually haul them safely up the hill. The past few weeks training consisted of topics such as "reading smoke" and video critiques using our new power-point projector.
