Earlier this week we posted tips for confined space rescue professionals. What about first responders that do not have any confined space training? Police officers are routinely the first-arriving responders at confined space incidents, even prior to EMS and the fire department. It is...

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As a first responder and technical rescue instructor, confined space rescue is one of the scariest rescue disciplines that I teach. Many confined space fatalities were “would be” rescuers, meaning they entered a confined space to do well but instead became victims themselves. Even though I...

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Thirteen years ago on April 17, 2007, two fire fighters were seriously injured while conducting water rescue training. The near miss occurred when they were practicing a two-boat tether rescue technique downstream of a low-head dam. Both boats being used in the evolution eventually crossed the...

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