Date: 03-14-2010
Location: Adamsburg and Community Volunteer Fire Department
The Adamsburg and Community Volunteer Fire Department and surrounding local fire departments continued there training with the second installment in the Basic Vehicle Rescue (BVR) Class. This portion of BVR is considered the operations section. Students learned to utilize hand tools, air tools, and electric powered tools to extricate patients from vehicles that have been involved in collisions. Tools ranging from sawzalls to air chisels were used by the students. These basic tools are taught in this section of the class prior to the next class that utilizes hydraulic power tools or the “Jaws of Life”. It is important for students to learn these basic tools as they are just as important on an emergency as the “Jaws of Life”. So for this class they had to disassemble vehicles using these basic tools. As you can see they were very successful.
