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[CANFF2706]

Our Dept is starting to put together a regional US&R type team. Anybody know of Canadian organizations or Fire Departments that offer training in Collapse & Trench Rescue? We have some leads on US instructors who have FEMA experience but who & what is out there on the home front?

[Scoop422]

I'm not sure about trainers, but Toronto now has a HUSAR team and a large new indoor training centre that has a trench rescue simulator and alot of other great stuff. I'm not sure who the contacts are but I'll see if I can get a phone number.

[Scoop422]

If you go to www.torontofirefighters.com and scroll down to the bottom of the home page there is a HUSAR symbol on the right, click on the symbol and it gives info about it and a name and e-mail of a training Captain in charge.

[resqtek]

Some of our guys are heading down east to give training to a department. We are in Calgary, Alberta. If you contact our training academy they can get you in touch with the coordinator of the program. For obvious reasons I do not want to post his name and number on a public forum. Chech out the website at http://calgaryfire.ca .

[mtwaites]

I wish that there is more of a thing like that in our area too!

[fieryred943]

You might want to look at the local Fire colleges. I graduated from Manitoba Emergency Services College. They have all types of collapse/trench/farm accident courses. Look up the college on the web they should be able to send you a course calendar.

Cheers