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Large patients and Road Crash Rescue
It’s easy to look around, in almost any community in Australia and see that there are more and more people who are overweight or obese, and sadly this observation is backed up with data from the Australian Government, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare...
WHAT IS AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE ‘EMERGENCY PLUG’
In recent years there has been lots of ideas and suggestions in relation to how rescue operators are to best deal with isolating and stabilising any type of Electric Vehicle (EV), either Fully Electric or Hybrid. One of the major initial concerns and arguably one of...
Vehicle Relocation Techniques Re-Directs using Winches
Welcome to the second article in a series about winches in rescue operations. In a road crash rescue scenario, vehicle re-directs using a winch (it doesn’t matter if it’s a vehicle mounted/powered winch or manually operated winch like a Tirfor) requires the use of a...
New Vehicle Design, High Strength Materials and Rescue
I feel it would be safe to say that any operator who has been involved in the rescue field for the last 10 years or so has seen some major developments in vehicle design and construction as well as a significant change in the tools we use and how we use them during...
Winching Operations Controlled Rollover
Welcome to the first article in a series about winching operations. The humble winch, arguably until recent years, probably one of the least utilised pieces of equipment on any operator’s rescue. When I started my rescue journey back in the early 90’s, I found that...