Vehicle Extrication

The Firehouse.com Vehicle Extrication product category is a collection of information, product listings and resources for researching vehicle extrication and rescue tool opions, including hydraulic and electric cutters, spreaders, combination tools, struts, airbags and lifting tools, extrication blankets and gloves and vehicle extraction options.
fire department rescue team vehicle extrication Power Hawk Technologies
May 6, 2025
Firehouse Labs' field analysis of Power Hawk Technologies' Auto Crib-It vehicle stabilization tools verified their capability to automatically set and lock as a vehicle is lifted...
Photos by Chris Soda
Sept. 24, 2024
Chris Soda's guidance about the simultaneous use of a spreader and a ram gives rescuers a process that's best for extricating victims from electric vehicles.
Photos by Steve Randall
Photo 1: Secured crib stacks with tools 12 inches high.
Sept. 13, 2024
Steve Randall details how support assemblies that are built using what’s on board apparatus can be deployed to increase rescue crew success.
Bus Accident Near Vicksburg, MS, Killed Seven
Aug. 31, 2024
The Mississippi Highway Patrol said dozens were injured and a 6-year-old and his teenage sister were killed in the charter bus crash near Vicksburg.
Photo by Victorian Simmons
July 22, 2024
Richard Bossert applies his experience as a board-certified vehicle rescue instructor to inform EMS providers and rescue technicians that MVA patient treatment and removal must...
Photos courtesy of Baltimore County, MD, Fire Department
July 22, 2024
Billy Goldfeder learned why members who were on scene of a medical emergency on an interstate came away relatively unscathed when their apparatus were struck by a separate passenger...