Tag Archives: Stabilization

Anyone who changes their own oil knows that automakers are covering the bottom-side (AKA the Dirty Side) with plastic panels to improve airflow which translates into better fuel economy. These plastic panels can

So calls like this never happen? Take a look at the pictures and start playing it out in your mind. How many vehicles, how many occupants or pedestrians? Is anyone trapped under a vehicle? Any fluids/fuel leaking? Lastly, do you have enough struts and platform to work on?

Take a look at the pictures from earlier in the week in Boston. The Boston Fire Department responsed to a worker in a Bobcat loader who was trapped under the front axle of a dump truck.

Check out the Hi-Lift First Responder Jack designed by the Puyallup Extrication Team helping out on the highway with a pickup truck with and overturned trailer.

We train for motor vehicle accidents with entrapment but do you train for extrications that involve an object other than another car? A vehicle resting against a utility pole or wrapped around it is a common scenario that we could ran into on a MVA. However, a tree that fell onto a vehicle that was uprooted by the wind in uncommon for most of us.