TECHNICAL ROPE RESCUE - Rescue 3 Certification Course
This professional 5-day rope course will get you the best
training available. It is designed to teach students a complete
range of skills from basic over-the-bank rescues to
progressively more vertical scenarios. Students will learn and
practice such skills as pre-planning, size-up and scene
management, ascending and descending, belaying, mechanical
advantage systems, lowering and raising systems, patient
packaging and litter attending, tethers, and highlines. In
addition to these standard skills there will be an integrated
component on animal rescue.
This course is one half a day in the classroom and 4˝ days in
the field and can be taught in an urban, rural, or combined
environments. This course is suitable for all adults, trained or
untrained, and will teach skills such as:
- Rescue philosophy
- Size-up
- Liability and mitigation
- Rope safety
- Managing a rope rescue
- Gear and equipment
- Knots and anchors
- Mechanical advantage
- Field expedient harnessing
- Low angle rope systems
- High angle rope systems
- Lowering and raising systems
- Rappelling [abseiling] and ascending
- Proper belaying techniques
- Pick-offs
- High line systems
This is a professional Rescue 3 Certification Course that meets
or exceeds all the guidelines set forth by the National Fire
Protection Agency [NFPA 1670]. This course also exceeds the
requirements of FEMA, USAR, and NIMS typing.
CERTIFICATION IS VALID FOR 3 YEARS |
Next Course:
SPRING, 2012
Potomac, Maryland
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.
Travel and accommodations are the responsibility of each
student. A list of local hotels nearby the site will be provided
upon registration.
Equipment Requirements:
- Climbing or fire helmet
- Leather gloves
- Work boots, hiking boots, or appropriate footwear
- Long pants or coveralls
- Full body harness (sit/chest harness can be substituted)
- Appropriate protective clothing for weather conditions
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