Chapter 25: Assisting Special Rescue Teams Flashcards
- TRI stands for?
Common TRI’s is a complex rescue incident that requires specially train personnel and special equipment. Common TRI’s involve vehicles, machinery, elevators, or escalators, rope techniques, water, ice, trench, or structural collapse, and energize electrical equipment.
- Training in technical rescue areas is conducted at 3 levels. What are they?
- Technical Rescue Incidents.
- • Awareness Level
• Operations Level
• Technician Level (Read pic above for description of each).
STEPS OF SPECIAL RESCUE:
- Although special rescue situations may take many different forms, all rescuers take certain basic steps to perform special rescues in a safe, effective, and efficient manner. What are the 10 steps?
- PRA SAD RTSP which is an acronym for:
• Preparation
• Response
• Arrival and Size Up
• Stabilization
• Access
• Disentanglement
• Removal
• Transport
• Security of the scene and preparation for the next call.
• Post incident analysis
Stabilizing the Incident
Once the needed resources are on the way, and the scene is safe to enter, begin to stabilize the incident. Establish an outer perimeter to keep the public and media out of the staging area. When the special rescue team arrives, they will establish a smaller perimeter directly around the rescue site. (Collapsed structure, hazardous spill etc) and whose size is proportional to the hazards that exist.
- There are three control zones that should be established. What are they?
- What are the color tape of each control zone?
- • Hot Zone: This area is for entry teams and special rescue teams. Only the hot zone immediately surrounds the danger of the site and is established to protect personnel outside the zone.
• Warm Zone: This is for properly trained and equipped personnel only. The warm zone is where personnel and equipment decontamination and hot zone support takes place.
• Cold Zone: This area is for staging vehicles and equipment. The cold zone contains the command post. The public and the media should be kept clear of the cold zone at all times. - • Red for the hot zone
• Orange for the warm zone
• Yellow for the cold zone
Disentangling a victim:
In the vehicle accident, the most important point to remember is that the vehicle is to be removed from around the victim, rather than trying to remove the victim from the wreckage.
- What does packaging mean?
The type of transport will vary, depending on the severity of the victims injuries, and the distance to the medical facility. For example, if a victim is critically injured, or if the rescue is taken place, some distance from the hospital, air transportation may be more appropriate than the use of a ground ambulance.
- The process of preparing the victim for movement as a unit.
POST INCIDENT DUTIES:
- What are the two post incident duties?
- • Security of the Scene and Preparation for the Next Call: Once the rescue is complete, the scene must be stabilized by the rescue crew to ensure that no one else becomes injured. In a trench incident, this includes filling the trench with dirt and roping off the surrounding area. At a hazardous materials incident, the cleanup of equipment and personnel takes place after a hazardous material incident has been controlled and victims have been treated and transported. Train disposal crews should be available to clean the site. All equipment, protective, gear, and clothing, as well as the rescue personnel themselves, must be decontaminated. In a vehicle rescue incident, the vehicle is removed; usually it is transported by a tow truck to a storage lot. The street is clean of all debris from the vehicle. This includes the cleanup of any spilled fluids, including gasoline, from the vehicle that was involved in the incident. In an industrial setting, the supervisor of the facility is responsible for securing the scene. Nevertheless, the technical rescue team must follow up with the supervisor or the safety coordinator to ensure that further problems are prevented. Once you have secured the scene and packed up your equipment, it is important to return to the station and fully inventory, clean, service, and maintain all of the equipment to prepare it for the next call. Back at the station, as you prepare for the next call, complete our reports, and document the rescue incident.• Post Incident Analysis: As with any type of call, the best way to prepare for the next rescue call is to review the last one and identify the strengths and weaknesses in your response. What did you do well? What could have been done better? If a death or a serious injury occurred during the call, a critical incident stress management session may occur to assist firefighters. Viewing a TRI with everyone involved will allow everyone to learn from the call and make the next call even more successful.
GENERAL RESCUE SCENE PROCEDURES:
- What are the 6 steps for General Rescue Scene Procedures?
- • Approaching the Scene: Size up begins with the information gain first from the person reporting the incident, and then from the bystanders at the scene upon arrival. Many times information received will be incomplete. Once on the scene, you can better identify life-threatening hazards, and take the appropriate corrective measures to mitigate those dangerous.
• Mitigating Utility Hazards
• Providing Scene Security: coworkers, family members, and other rescuers may enter an unsafe scene and become additional victims. The IC coordinate with law enforcement to help secure the scene and control access. You will often be asked to establish barriers to provide seeing security at a rescue incident. When emergency incidents occur on streets or highways, vehicle, warning, lights, traffic, cones, and fuses are often used to warn oncoming traffic. When crowd control is an issue, plastic barrier tape marked with the words “caution” or “fire line” is often used to keep out non-essential personnel.
• Using Protective Equipment
• Using the Incident Command System
• Ensuring Accountability
• Making Victim Contact
Skill Drill 25-1: Establishing a Barrier:
After-Action Review:
After-Action Review:
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