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Swift water rescue (also called "white water rescue") is a subset of technical rescue dealing in white water river conditions. Due to the added pressure of moving water, swift water rescue involves the use of specially trained personnel, ropes and mechanical advantage systems that are often much more robust than those used in standard rope rescue.
Sep. 26—The Manchester Fire Department is sending a swift water and flood rescue team, vehicles and equipment to help first responders in states forecasted to be hit hard by Hurricane Helene.
Rescue Ambulance 86: Swift Water Rescue 86: Valley Bureau: 14 87 Granada Hills: Engine 87: Light Force 87: Rescue Ambulance 87 Rescue Ambulance 887: Squad 87 Hazmat Tender 87 OES Engine 8137C: Valley Bureau: 15 88 Sherman Oaks: Engine 88: Light Force 88: Rescue Ambulance 88: Command 42: Water Tender 88 USAR 88 Swift Water Rescue 88 OES Engine ...
HUET simulator for Westland Lynx helicopter. Helicopter Underwater Egress Training (also known as Helicopter Underwater Escape Training [1]); often abbreviated as HUET, pronounced hue-wet, hue-way or you-way) is training provided to helicopter flight crews, offshore oil and gas industry, law enforcement personnel, and military personnel who are regularly transported by helicopters over water.
Jun. 23—The Terre Haute Fire Department's Swift Water Rescue Team introduced itself to the public Wednesday afternoon on the banks of the Wabash River in Fairbanks Park. The team is the ...
Emergency responders from 18 states and the federal government are working alongside 92 swift water rescue teams and more than 700 National Guard soldiers. PHOTOS: Coast Guard rescues nine people ...
In the midst of historic flooding from Hurricane Florence, a swiftwater rescue team saved a 47-year-old man from his SUV that was nearly submerged in the floodwaters in Cumberland County.
The training center is one of the most advanced in the world, with a six-story tower that can be remotely set ablaze and extinguished, swiftwater rescue canals, train track and airplane fuselage for Mass Casualty Incident training, and an underground dispatch center that can flex over 18 inches in the event of earthquakes. [4]