| Rescue Northwest offers a full
line of technical rescue classes. Please call for details
if your department or squad is interested in hosting
a class. All fees are based on class size. Content is
listed below, however classes may be customized to meet
your department's specific needs. Unless
otherwise noted, all courses listed here comply with
NFPA 1670, Operations and Training for Technical Rescue
Incidents, 2004 edition.
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| Schedule
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 Rope
Rescue I (20 hours)
Cost: $325
This course meets requirements
for awareness and operations levels, and will provide
the student with the ability to approach rope rescue
situations safely and conduct rope rescue operations
in low-angle situations, as well as practice safe
rescuer skills in high-angle situations.
Skills taught include:
- Size up
- Equipment selection
- Knots
- Anchors
- Ascending and descending
- Raising and lowering systems
- Patient Packaging
- Litter tending in the low-angle
environment
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 Rope
Rescue II (20 hours)
Cost: $325
This course meets requirements for
technician level, with the exception of Highline Rope
Systems, and will provide the student with the ability
to conduct rescue operations in most high-angle situations.
Skills taught include:
- Advanced anchor systems
- Advanced haul systems
- Raising and lowering systems
for the high-angle environment
- Knot passing
- High directional anchors
- "Pick-off" rescues
- Litter rigging and tending in
the high-angle environment
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 Rope
Rescue III (20 hours)
Cost: $375
With the addition of this course,
the student will have met all requirements for technician
level. It will challenge the student's rigging skills
and problem-solving abilities, and will provide the
student with the ability to conduct and/or manage
high-angle rescue operations.
Skills taught include:
- Advanced litter tending
- Sloping highlines (telphers)
- Horizontal highlines
- Lead climbing
- Other ascending techniques
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Confined Space Awareness (8
hours)
Cost: $150
This course provides the student
with the ability to recognize confined spaces and
related hazards, prevent further injury, and summon
additional resources.
Skills taught include:
- Size up
- Hazard identification
- Non-entry retrieval
- Site control and scene management
- Overview of applicable state
& federal regulations
- Overview of NFPA 1670 applicable
chapters
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 Confined
Space Rescue Operations (24 hours)
Cost: $425
In addition to the curriculum of
Awareness, this course will provide the student with
training in pre-entry operations, operation management,
and limited entry into confined spaces.
Skills taught include:
- Awareness training
- Atmospheric monitoring
- Ventilation
- Isolation techniques
- Selection and use of PPE
- Victim packaging
- Anchor systems
- Raising and lowering systems
- Respiratory protection
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 Emergency
Trench Shoring & Rescue (16 hours)
This course provides the student
with the ability to approach trench rescue scenes
safely and apply emergency trench shoring and rescue
skills in various types of trenches in order to safely
perform a rescue or recovery.
Subjects taught include:
- Identification of types of soil and trench collapses
- Initial non-entry operations
- Shoring materials
- Emergency trench shoring
- OSHA-compliant shoring
- Basic medical care
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Building Collapse and
Emergency Building Shoring (16 hours)
Course description coming soon;
call for details!
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 Ice
Rescue (8 hours)
Course description coming soon;
call for details!
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