Boron Extrication An in-depth look into vehicle extrication and rescues involving today's automobiles
What a great year 2010 was! For the first time in a long time the automotive industry started adding jobs here in Detroit! Hopefully, with more people getting back to work the budget cuts in public safety budgets can finally ...
Read More »Electric Vehicle Safety Training
The project has some major legs and $4.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Read More »Watch Driver, Passenger, and Seat Airbags get deployed. Air curtains too!
I posted some videos of Ron Moore deploying airbags on several different Ford vehicles at the CREST Center in Michigan. Ron hot wired every airbag in the vehicle and deployed each one. The Ford representative was there also, he had ...
Read More »The Fundamentals of Extrication: NFPA 1670 Operations Level (By Ron Moore)
I consider Ron Moore as one of the best in the Fire Service when it comes to Extrication. Personally, I also plan to take one of his Extrication classes at FireHouse Expo in 2011. That being said, we can all ...
Read More »2011 Volt Body Structure High Strength Steel
General Motors has already conducted more than 50 crash tests of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt. Chevrolet expects Volt to achieve high safety ratings in government tests. With the Volt’s body structure made up of nearly 80 percent high-strength steel I would say ...
Read More »More UHSS and AHSS in the Future!
Just in case you thought that the automotive industry was content with the current amount of UHSS and AHSS used in vehicles, that is not the case. The amount of AHSS in vehicles is expected to triple by 2020.Here are ...
Read More »Subaru, UHSS, and Boron
After several request for information on the Boron and Ultra-high Strength Steel (UHSS) used in Subaru vehicles I decided to put together a post. Subaru is well known for the use of Boron and UHSS so I steered cleared of ...
Read More »Boron Updates and Ron Moore’s Presentation
I am working on adding/ updating a page that will list all the automakers and provide links to all the vehicle information currently available on this site. You can access information by automaker right now by using the labels on ...
Read More »The Challenges of Extrication Involving Vehicles with Advanced Steel Structures
Sign up for a free presentation online called The Challenges of Extrication Involving Vehicles with Advanced Steel Structures Presented By Ronald E. MooreOctober 27 , 2009 – 2 pm (ET) OVERVIEW: With increasing frequency, fire departments are reporting an inability ...
Read More »Free UHSS Extrication Training DVD
I received a copy of an extrication DVD put together by State Farm. The DVD is only a couple years old but has boat loads of useful information. One of the contributors in this DVD is Ron Moore. Many of ...
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