*** Technical Rescue Training Organisations *** Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 00:09:30 -0700 (PDT) From: jgus@rain.org (Judith Gustafson) To: sar-l@islandnet.com Subject: Re: Technical/High Angle Training Courses > Does anyone out there know of courses being run over a period of four to six days SOLO (through NARI) High Angle Rescue (Level I) and Advanced High Angle Rescue (Level 2) Full listing of NARI courses and description of Rescuer Technician certification available from SOLO at: RFD 1 Box 163, Tasker Hill Conway, NH 03818 Voice (603) 447-6711 Fax (603) 447-2310 email Website www.shore.net/~arlyn/solo CMC Rescue School Rope Rescue Tech I & II, and Advanced RRT III open enrollment and on-site contract courses, catalog and info available at: P O Drawer 6870 Santa Barbara CA 93160-6870 Phone: 800/235-5741 FAX: 800-235-8951 email: customerservice@cmcrescue.com Web: http://www.cmcrescue.com/ WMA (Wilderness Medical Associates) High Angle Rescue instruction available by contract 189 Dudley Road Bryant Pond, Maine 04219 Tel (207) 665-2707 Toll Free 24 hrs message (888) WILDMED Fax (207) 665-2747 email Website http://wildmed.com Judith Gustafson * jgus@rain.org * P O Box 1215 * Ojai CA 93024 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 22:19:11 +1000 (EST) From: als@ns1.ix.net.au (Alan Sheehan) To: SAR-L@islandnet.com Subject: Re: Technical/High Angle Training Courses The NSW State Emergency Service has a training package in Vertical Rescue. It is in three qualifications in line with the State Rescue Board standards. V1 standard is a 29 hour course based on "basic" haul and lower system. 1:1 or 2:1 MA. SRT rigging, etc. Includes day and night exercises. At one stage the intention was for all general land rescue units to be V1 qualified (I'm not sure what happened to that...). V2 is a standard not supported by SES. VM (Vertical Mobility) is a 29 hour course teaching vertical mobility skills (abseiling, prusiking, and lots of nasty edges, knot passes and changeovers), SRT rigging, etc. Of course, day and night exercises including industrial and tower as well as cliffs. V3 is a 30 hour course covering reversible safeties, advanced haul systems (Z-rig, bolt ons, multiplying, etc), abseil assists (single rescuer rescues), and helicopter winching (theory only... bummer!). Once again it includes day and night exercises, including industrial and tower as well as cliffs. Requires VM as a prerequisite. We tend to run each of these courses as two full weekends each to try to get as much time on rope as possible. Vertical Rescue Instructors need the V3 qualifications plus "considerable" experience and qualifications in "Instructional Techniques" (another 30 hours). All Vertical Rescuers and Instructors have to keep a log book to "prove" their "considerable" experience. It does come in handy though on a "Coroner's job" when your trying to remember details in court 12 months after the fact... While I was preparing this post, I began to wonder about what prerequisites others have for their technical/high angle courses? We require: First Aid (1 weekend) Introduction to Disaster Rescue (1 weekend) Disaster Rescue (3-4 weekends) Then either V1, or VM and V3 depending on the standard being sought. So what pre-requisites do you have on your technical/high angle courses? We are all volunteers: fortunately the cost of our courses is commensurate with our rate of pay - free... (apart from the occasional sense of frustration that goes with being a volunteer...) BTW, the NSW Volunteer Rescue Association also run ALVRI courses (Australian Lightweight Vertical Rescue I???? - I'm never sure of the last word - maybe Instruction?). Never having done it I don't know much about it. Alan Sheehan Oberon State Emergency Service New South Wales Australia E-mail: als@ix.net.au AlanS@obe.woodpanels.csr.com.au All opinions are my own so don't blame anyone else... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 08:32:44 -0400 From: "WPGATE::NOEL::DJACOB"@vdhvax.vdh.state.vt.us (Donna Jacob) To: sar-l@islandnet.com Subject: Re: Technical/High Angle Training Courses - Reply There is a small company in Vermont which is run by a gentleman with some 12+ years of experience in the areas of technical rescue and emergency medical experience. The company is called Technical Rescue Services of Vermont, and although I don't believe they have an e-mail address, his address is: PO Box 29 Underhill, Vermont 05489-0029 (802) 899-3427 He has taught several fire department/rescue services both low and high angle rope rescue training in the couple years he has been running the company. He offers these courses in conjunction with a full-time job in the Army as a mountaineering instructor, but somehow managed to fit in a course for our group...and continues to serve as our instructor and technical team mentor. He indicated he would be willing to travel to a neighboring state for a weekend, should a service(s) be interested. Best luck finding a quality course. --Donna ------------------------------