3/27/2012 – Tactical Response Team Training

The training division conducted one of the quarterly Tactical Response Team training sessions on Tuesday, March 27, 2012.  Two training sessions occurred, one at 09:00 and one at 18:00.  The topic of the training was Confined Space Rescue.  Personnel reviewed confined space directives and then conducted an exercise involving an actual confined space inside a building in the industrial area that is currently vacant.  The exercise involved a mannequin being used to simulate a victim that was trapped underneath the floor in a horizontal ventilation shaft.

Personnel were able to conduct air monitoring inside the space using a wireless remote monitoring station, then conducted ventilation of the space.  Next, two entrants dressed in Class III harnesses along with two other personnel who acted as a rapid intervention team.  An air supply was established using a supplied air breathing apparatus (air-cart) and a tripod with associated rope rigging was setup over the space to accommodate tag lines for the entrants and a haul line to remove the simulated victim.