Extrication Tools, Cutters and Spreaders News & Articles

• EMS and extrication: Coordinating clinical care during vehicle rescue

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  Follow these steps to define roles, identify and mitigate hazards, and work toward the best possible patient outcome

• Photos: Utah crews rescue 2 people buried by avalanche

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  One patient had to be extricated from beneath a vehicle; both were transported to a medical center

• Extrication equipment, radios stolen from Ore. VFD station

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  The Hamlet Volunteer Fire Department said it has received many donation offers

• Photos: Crash traps two people in car dangling over rushing Calif. canal

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  Colton firefighters stabilized the car in the water and used a Jaws of Life tool to pull off a door; EMS providers transported both survivors to a trauma center

• 6 dead in Neb. city's 'worst crash in recent memory'

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  Lincoln Fire & Rescue extricated a woman from the crashed vehicle and transported her to a medical facility where she later died

• Video: Idaho FFs extricate man trapped in car after crashing into tree

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  Footage released by the Boise Fire Department showed firefighters freeing the man by cutting off the roof of the vehicle

• Video: FDNY firefighter’s leg crushed by car while trying to free victims

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  Firefighter Ryan Warnock was helping to stabilize the vehicle for extrication when one of the occupants hit the gas, causing the car to shift

• How to buy extrication tools (eBook)

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  Download this FireRescue1 extrication tools buying guide to learn key steps for product selection, purchasing and implementation

• FDIC 2022: Product unveilings, apparatus showcase and collaboration news

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  Don’t miss these offerings on the main exhibit hall floor and in Lucas Oil Stadium

• MCIs all come back to personnel and resources

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  It’s vital to identify your capacity, who can help when needed, and what equipment is limited

• Nearly 100 vehicles involved in pileup on Ore. interstate

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  Multiple agencies responded to the wreck and uninjured drivers were taken to the Pendleton Convention Center

• How the Jaws of Life became a tool to snatch you from the jaws of death

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  The Jaws of Life was first created in 1961 and are now indispensable tools for many fire departments

• HURST Jaws of Life celebrates 50th anniversary

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  The company is marking its half-century milestone with a celebratory logo, challenge coins, and patches

• 'We're feeling violated again,' Wash. chief says of second station burglary

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  Video shows open apparatus compartments after thieves made off with nearly $25K worth of equipment from Whatcom County District 16's Station 86

• This intelligent extrication tool interacts with the rescuer to keep the focus on the patient

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  Improvements in speed, power and design ensure the HURST eDRAULIC 3.0 Tool is tough enough to keep up with modern extrication demands while also being safer for the operator

• Calif. firefighters rescue two from fire in vacant office building

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  Fresno firefighters cut through metal bars blocking windows to pull a man and a woman to safety

• Extrication tools: What you want

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  Throwing off the constraints of money and physics, what improvements do you want to see in extrication tools?

• ‘I don’t think they made it’: 911 call reports plane crash

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  2 women were severely injured when their single-engine Cessna Skyhawk crashed in Miramar, Fla.

• YouTube video, ‘I Tried Paramedic Academy’ goes viral

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  Michelle Khare documented her experience with South Metro Fire Rescue in a video that reached 1 million views in just over a week

• How to buy extrication tools, cutters and spreaders

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  Several factors will affect which tools and systems will best serve your agency's extrication needs

• Calif. firefighters rescue nude woman found wedged between buildings

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  Orange County Fire Authority crews had to cut through an 8-inch-thick concrete wall to rescue the woman

• Mich. FFs use Jaws of Life to free woman stuck in a chair during ‘stuck fetish’ video

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  Ann Arbor firefighters had to try a couple techniques before successfully freeing the woman, whose TikTok video of the ‘entrapment’ has gone viral

• Texas groups launch $1.1M initiative to donate equipment to first responders in 22 counties

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  Each of the more than 150 kits to be donated contains a Jaws of Life tool, portable lighting, electronic road flares and more

• Safe, effective and efficient stabilization for today’s MVC

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  The Junkyard Dog (JYD) ZStrut Rescue Strut uses a uniquely-engineered deployment method that eliminates the need for pins altogether

• US traffic deaths spike even as pandemic cuts miles traveled

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  Some highway travel officials suggested that emptier roads led to more opportunities to abuse speed

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