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2. Technical rescue - Wikipedia

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   Technical rescue is the use of specialised tools and skills for rescue, including vehicle extrication, confined space rescue, rope rescue, trench rescue, structural collapse rescue, wilderness search and rescue, ice rescue, swift water rescue, underwater rescue and cave rescue. These often require specialised rescue squads as they exceed the ...

3. FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force - Wikipedia

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   The cache contains five categories of equipment: Medical, Search and Rescue, Communications, Technical Support and Logistics. Medical. The medical portion of the cache includes medical treatment and tools to provide sophisticated medical treatment for victims and task force members, including limited treatment of disaster search canines.

4. Rescue vehicle - Wikipedia

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   A rescue vehicle is a specialised vehicle designed to transport and provide the equipment necessary for technical rescue. [1] Vehicles carry an array of special equipment such as the jaws of life, wooden cribbing, generators, winches, hi-lift jacks, cranes, cutting torches, circular saws and other forms of heavy equipment unavailable on ...

5. Urban search and rescue - Wikipedia

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   Rescuers with a victim of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake Rescue teams evacuating residents from flooded areas during Hurricane Katrina. Urban search and rescue (abbreviated as USAR or US&R) is a type of technical rescue operation that involves the location, extrication, and initial medical stabilization of victims trapped in an urban area, namely structural collapse due to natural disasters, war ...

6. Rope rescue - Wikipedia

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   Rope rescue. Rope rescue is a subset of technical rescue that involves the use of rope, be it steel or cable rope, or more commonly used nylon, polyester, or other type of rope. Kernmantle (kern = core and mantle = sheath) rope as it is called, is available in various types: dynamic (stretches to absorb the shock of a falling lead climber or ...

7. Plymouth County Technical Rescue Team lifts 1,000-pound ... - AOL

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   WHITMAN — A 1,000-pound elderly horse got a lift to her feet this weekend by a technical rescue team using a harness and front-end loader. The Whitman Fire Department responded to Winter Acres ...