Plymouth County technical rescue team

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Plymouth County technical rescue team

• Sponsored by Plymouth County Fire and Rescue
  Training Association
• Photos by Rob Reardon and Pat Travers

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The purpose of this powerpoint presentation is to
familiarize firefighters and officers with the
assets of the Plymouth County Technical Rescue
Team. Technical rescue is unique and complex and
it requires an increased amount of specialized
training and the skill is seldom put to use in
real rescues.
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Plymouth County technical rescue team
Technical Rescue involves the location, rescue
(extrication), and initial medical stabilization
of victims trapped in confined spaces, structural
collapse, transportation accidents, collapsed
trenches, incidents requiring rope rescue and
underwater rescue/recovery.

• Medium Duty Technical Rescue Task Force

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• The team is made up of 50 members from fire
  departments around the County training together
  regularly.

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• Plymouth County Tech Rescue has four fully
  equipped trailers

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• Upon activation the trailers are delivered to the
  scene by their host Towns

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• Equipment gets staged upon arrival for the
  specific type of rescue

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• Inside of mobile command which is activated on
  all incidents

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• Inside Tech Trailer 2

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• Cutting, breaking , lifting equipment

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• Confined space and rope rescue equipment

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• High pressure bags, stokes and trench collapse
  panels

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• All trailers are equipped with a portable
  generator, lighting and extension cords.

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• All trailers have four gas meters, 02, CO, H2S,
  CG LEL

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• Carpenters box with assorted hand tools

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• Command vests and 2 wheel dollys

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Structural and trench collapse

• The team has tools for shoring, breaching,
  cutting and lifting.

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• Multiple saws for cutting, wood. metal, concrete

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• Multiple Milwaukee sawzalls with extra batteries

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• Multiple drills, impact and demo hammer drills

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• Hydraulic Rebar Cutters

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• Framing nail guns and compressors

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• Assorted lumber for shoring and cribbing and a
  cutting station

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• Team members assemble a wall buttress

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• Nail guns provide for speed in their assembly

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• Door frame shoring

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• T Shoring for doorway

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• Low pressure air bags

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• High pressure air bags w/ air cart

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• Bosch electric jackhammers with multiple tips

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• Acetylene torch

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• Exothermic/Oxygen slice cutter

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• Expandable search camera w/ lighting and sound

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• Delsar listening device multi point system

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• Pneumatic air gun Impact gun/whizzer saws

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• Hydraulic 12 and 20 ton bottle jacks

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• Longs boards, shoring, and other misc rescue
  equipment

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• Trench panel shoring

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• Paratech Air shores

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• Team member uses an air knife during a trench
  exercise

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Rope rescue

• High and low angle rope rescue

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• Caribiners, figure eight decenders, and assorted
  prusik-minded pulleys

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• Over 4000 feet of rescue rope and water rescue
  rope

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• Class III harnesses and helmets

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• Stokes, spider rigging, SKED

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• Back country rescue wheel

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• Multi lengths of Prusik cord and accessory cord

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Confined space
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• Portable 12 Tripod

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• Supplied air breathing with cart and escape
  bottles

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• Rescue SKED

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• Air blower

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Dive
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• Bridgewater Special ops acting as dive equipment
  staging area

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• Divers practicing tender to diver rope searches

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• Team members using dry suits with rescue harnesses

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• Tender communicating with diver via rope signals

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• Diver s and tenders are certified

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• Hand held sonar unit

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• Water rescue throw bags and life safety rope

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• Whitman dive incident

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• Divers in 30 feet of water searching for training
  maniken

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• Joint dive drill in Duxbury Bay

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Assorted photos
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• Joint training exercise PCTRT and Old Colony
  SWAT. Team members breaching wall with electric
  jack hammer in a hostage situation

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• Tech team members staging with SWAT at joint
  exercise

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• Team was selected to participate in a national
  industrial training video

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• Team activation for a concrete slab collapse on a
  worker in a trench in Stoughton

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• Members secure a victim after removal from a silo

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To activate the Plymouth county tech rescue
team call plymouth county control by
radio or 508-747-1779