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Training Series Continues w/Vehicle Rescue Scenerio
By Assistant Chief Robert Klinger, Jr.
July 26, 2010
On Monday evening crews met at the fire house for the weekly training night. After completing the weekly house chores members were alerted by Chester County Fire Board for an accident at Stacey's Towing with a vehicle overturned that was part of a planned drill by the officers.
Crews responded and arrived to find a single vehicle accident scenerio with 3 subjects trapped, in a vehicle on an embankment after rolling several times. Assistant 33 (Klinger) set up Command while Captain 33 (L. Stoltzfus) took the roll of Rescue Operations and began working with the EMS crews to triage, extricate and package the patients.
Rescue crews stabilized the vehicle, and then removed the doors and roof of the vehicle while dealing with the difficult angle of the embankment. Engine 33-1's crews established a Z-Rig system and prepped the Stokes basket to remove a victim from the vehicle up the hill.
After the last patient had been extricated, the Department was notified by the CCFB for a field fire in the area of Route 10 and Resevior Rd. Crews quickly gathered equipment up and responded to the field fire to find it was a controlled burn that had been called in by a passerby. Members then loaded up, went back to the Station and held a quick talk through of things that went well and need improvemnt during the drill.
