If you’ve noticed some Danville Fire Department activity during the afternoons this week, just west of the David S Palmer Arena; firefighters have been taking advantage of that open grassy area with a small built-in hill to work on using the rope for rescue situations. As Lieutenant Training Officer Ryan Allison explains, practicing on how to get someone being rescued up a slope is just part of it.
AUDIO: A lot of people don’t realize that we have a confined space, technical rescue kind of team. And so we try to rotate between doing something with rope training; whether it’s repelling off of something, coming in from a high angle, going down to a grade. Or going the next month to confined space; making an entry into an area where there’s maybe a limited oxygen supply, and someone’s going to be put in danger.
Lieutenant Allison says different drills such as the ones this week are usually done every other month.
