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Rescue awareness
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 What is a TRI?

 Technical rescue incident

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What is the accountability system?

  • Allows the ic to manage resources,delegate tasks, track the personnel on scene, and restrict scene access.
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What is the HELP position?

  • The heat escape lessening position requires to draw your knees close to your chest pressing the arms close to the side of the body and keeping your head and neck out of the water
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What are some examples of incidents requiring a special rescue team?

  • Cave rescue, dive rescue,trench rescue,swift water rescue, wilderness recuse, rope rescue
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What guidelines should be followed when assisting TRI Team

 members? 

  • Be safe
  • Follow orders
  • Work as a team
  • Think
  • Follow the golden rule of public service
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What are 2 types of vehicle frames?

  • Platform frame construction uses beams to fabricate the load bearing frame of a vehicle.
  • Unibody construction combines body and frame together, most common.
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What is the model used in water rescue?

  • Reach- first attempt to reach person
  • Throw- throw and flotation device or buoy
  • Row- go out to person in small boat or canoe
  • Go- go get pt urself
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What does the mnemonic FAILURE stand for? What does the mnemonic FAILURE stand for?

  • F-failure to understand the environment
  • A-Additional medical problems not considered
  • I-Inadequate rescue skills
  • L- lack of teamwork or experience
  • U- underestimating the logistics of the incident
  • R- rescue versus recovery mode not considered
  • E- equipment not mastered
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What are examples of Alternative Power Vehicles?

  • Electric and hybrid
  • Liquefied petroleum gas
  • Ethanol and flex fuel
  • Biodiesel and dimethyl ether
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What is the difference between High and Low angle rescue?

  • Lowangle is where the slope of the ground over where th rescuers is less than 45 degrees
  • High angle is above 45 degrees
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What are the 8 steps of a Technical Rescue?

  • Preparation- prepping with additional resources to have said skills and to know medical terminology.
  • Response- a dispatch protocol should be established for tri’s.
  • Arrival and assessment
  • Stabilization-hot zone warm zone and cold zone is it safe to enter.
  • Access- once scene is stabilized how to get to pt and help.
  • Disentanglement- freeing pts
  • Removal- removing pt from area where problem arose.
  • Transport- taking them to le hopital
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What is used to stabilize a vehicle involved in an MVC?

  • Short lengths of robust timber 10x10 cm
  • Step blocks
  • Wedges
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What is a belay?

  • Rope being fed out while climbing to the climbers to prevent a fall
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What standards should your PPE fall under?

  • High visibility
  • Protective headgear
  • Footwear
  • Safety glasses or goggles
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What are hazards to consider at a trench or collapse incident?

  • A secondary collapse and the soil pile
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Describe the following: Rappelling, Scrambling, Hasty Rockslide.

  • Rappelling- to decend on a fixed rope
  • Scrambling- a method used to ascend rocky faces and ridges.
  • Hasty rope slide- self escape procedure when there is no other means of egress, this kind of semi-controlled fall should not be attempted without proper training.