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    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.
    Rock Island firefighters send off old engine in simulated first responder crash
    Susan Nicol
    June 10, 2025
    This time it didn't matter that Rock Island's E-32 had a cracked frame and a laundry list of issues.
    Municipal Emergency Services
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    Oct. 16, 2024
    Municipal Emergency Services has quickly grown to be the largest supplier of 3M™ Scott™ Air-Paks, RevolveAir Systems, Fire-Dex, Honeywell, Seek Thermal, Hurst Jaws of Life, Matex...
    Photos by Chris Soda
    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.
    Steve Randall
    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
    Richard Bossert
    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...