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The Katy Volunteer Fire Department in conjunction
with Texas Engineering Extension Agency, have put together a nationally
recognized vehicle extrication school. In the past Students have
come from all over the state of Texas and as far away as Canada
to attend our school.
The classes offered are in to two categories, basic
and advanced. All students begin with an orientation. Students
are introduced to their instructors and given procedures for the
class.
Saturday morning the students are presented to
the designated instructor for the appropriate class and sent to
their designated areas. Basic students will learn the right tool
for the right job. Most if not all of these students have had
little or no prior knowledge or handling of tools such as the
jaws of life, circle O cutters or rams. Basic students will also
learn the proper way to extricate (remove) a person from an emergency
situation. Using a backboard, webbing, c-collars, head beds, cribbing,
etc. are incorporated into the class. Students are taught to properly
package a patient for transport to the hospital.
These classes have been large enough in the past
that the class has had to be separated, relocating at various
facilities to start using the tools, while the other half remains
at the station and to learn about patient handling skills.
Advanced students will learn to extricate patients
from non traditional emergencies such as tractor and mower accidents,
trench rescue, confined space rescue, along with various other
incidents that can be created by instructors. Advanced students
spend their two days learning all advanced techniques so each
student must have successfully completed the basic level class.
Friends, family, instructors, local high school
students, and explorers all participate as victims so that the
students may have as real of an emergency environment and still
be controlled.
27th
Annual Katy Vehicle Extrication and Rescue Seminar - November
9-11, 2007
This type and quality of training is important and
the Katy Volunteer Fire Department will continue to sponsor this
dynamic program as it has done for the past eighteen years.
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