Technical Rescue
Technical Rope Rescue : Operation Level
This course is designed to provide students with the fundamentals of rope rescue in a low angle environment. Students learn and practice skills like pre-planning and size-up of rope low angle rescue. Skills include rescue operations, knots, anchor systems, belay operations, ascending/descending, mechanical advantage systems, patient packing & litter attending. Students learn how to safely navigate low-angle or over-the-bank rescue situations and assist rescuers trained in high-angle rescues.
Technical Rope Rescue : Technician Level
Living in the Northern part of the Adirondack Mountains, this is our favorite class to instruct. This course is designed to start with very mild over-the-bank rescues to more challenging vertical scenarios, and finish with highline rigged over natural gorges. Students will learn and practice such skills as pre-planning, size-up and scene management, ascending and descending, belaying, mechanical advantage systems, lowering and raising systems, patient packaging and litter attending, tethers and highline. This intense course is taught over five days, splitting the days into two sessions, which has proven to be very beneficial. Our program builds on skilled learned one day, and creates an amazing level of confidence in our students.
Completion of the TRR: TL class satisfies the requirements in NFPA 1670 for Technical Rope Rescue Technician level training. In addition as stated in SRT1, this level of training is mandatory for inclusion on many Federal and State Emergency Management Agency Teams.
Technical Animal Rescue
This course teaches students how to rescue animals without becoming a victim yourself. We cover rescuer safety, animal behavior in a disaster environment, basic first-aid for animals and how to extricate and safely transport animals in a flood or low angle environment. Students include Firefighters, EMT's, Vet Techs, Animal Enforcement and Rescue, K-9 units and Law Enforcement. This program is extremely interactive, we use established knowledge of our students to assist in out presentations and hands on drills.
