Tech Rescue Teams

[jonesy0924]

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What would a small department need to do to get a Tech Rescue team? We are in a very industrious area and the closest team is about 20 minutes away. What type of training and equipment would be needed.....Just looking for some help

[MEck51]

I am too lazy to search for you however I will suggest you try one.

Anyway, first address your goals.
1 haz-mat?
2 confined space? you will also need haz-mat rolling for the most part.
3 trech rescue?
4 high angle?
5 structual collapse?
6 all around heavy rescue team?
7 some others I can not rember quickly enough to post?

Now what level do you want to be trained to?
1 operations?
2 tech? if you have a team this should be the min., I would suggest some specialists

Now are you paid (doesn't sound it)
Paid full contingent of staff available, you don't have to rely upon guys that may not be available.
Vollie, you will have to train to backfill when guys aren't available.

There are many variables, come back with some basic answers and it will be easier to answer your intial question.

Keep in mind though that many industrial complexes have their own teams, and you may just be support or assisting until the other team arrives. Also the complexes themselves should be able to tell you alot about what they would like to see. They also will usaualy offer $$$$ to train your people and get you equipment beings they are the reason that you need this team, but talk to the right people up top and explain them the basic facts of your dept.

[fdsq10]

Not sure what part of FL you are located in, but there are alot of State Technical Rescue Teams in the FL area you could talk too. One that comes to me is Jacksonville FD, they have a great state team. We did some training with them during one of our hurricane deployments 2 yrs ago. You could also contact the 2 FEMA US&R teams for some suggestions. STAY SAFE. FDSQUAD 10 VATF-2 US&R.

[jonesy0924]

fdsq10 I am in Hillsborough COunty and they have a real good team I plan to talk to them after talking with my chief...
Meck51 i am with both a paid and vollie but I am looking for the paid dept that I work with...

[ADSNWFLD]

Our department has 10 guys, but we are part of a larger division team that has about 70 Technical rescue guys, 100+ Haz mat techs, and 30 to 40 divers.
Get with the surrounding towns and make a regional team.

[herbroberson]

As was stated in an earlier reply, what level of response do you wish to provide initially? If you have a team with in 20 minutes of your area and 10 members already at the operations or technician level that serve on a division or area team, you might consider training all members to either awareness (recognize the hazard, call additional resourses, initial survey, tape off the area, yada yada yada) and having some (as it sounds like you already do) trained to ops or tech level with enough initial material to start placing ground pads and walk boards and be able to set two to four initial panels in the area of the victim. If the team and its full set of resourses are only 20 minutes away, just getting started with protecting the trench lip would probably be about all the time you would have before the team arrived to assist. Doing this would save a lot of money on duplication of equipment which is not cheap for trench. The basics are four sheets of Finform or equivalant wall sheeting and strong backs for them, timbers (6"x6"'s, 2'x12"'s, ect with the right saws to cut them) to be cut for shoring, or pneumatic shoring,or trench screw jacks, adequate ground pads and walk board material, and basic hand tools to put this together and to start moving the spoil pile back away from the lip.

Our county has a multi-department response to trench incidents with two of the departments storing the trailers we use to carry a huge cache of materials for trench (and building collapse), and surrounding departments providing awareness or ops level initial personel response. One of the keys here is to not delay the dispatch of the team or materials when an incident is recieved by your dispatchers. Get everything coming to save time, and if you find those resourses are not needed then you cancel the response ... it is a lot better to have more than you need coming than to need more than you have! Just my two cents worth :D .

[jonesy0924]

We are a paid department and I am looking into a start up team for high angle, confined space, and vehicle and machinary rescue to start as this is the most apt to happen

[XCAPT1]

I belong to a Township Task Force. We have 10 department teams as part of our Task Force. When my department started our TRT we started with high angle and confined space in mind. We had a need for both disciplines because of a college and construction in our district. Those two disciplines use allot of the same training and equipment, so we felt it gave us more bang for the buck. Now we have members trained in all disciplines.

If you start a team remember to work within your training level. I have seen teams work beyond their training because they are a TRT and they were called.

Here is a link to my Task Force Site:Brookhaven Technical Rescue Task Force (http://longislandrescue.com/btrtf/)

Stay Safe

[bkmcse]

Our Tech Rescue team is a county wide team. We are a mixture of several Vol depts and one Career dept. We train together every other month and are working on getting all members of the team up to Technicial level on Rope, Trench, Confined Space, and Structural Collapse. We also have a county wide Hazmat team.