Over the past several years, many trade publications, blogs and manuals have emphasized the importance of responder positioning in relation to hydraulic tools and tactics on the extrication scene.

Willcox Fire-Rescue used hydraulic and battery-powered spreaders and cutters to free a commercial vehicle driver who rolled over on Interstate 10. Crews responded to the rollover at Milepost 336 to ...

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When an Altoona Fire Department crew answered an entrapment call involving a Mercedes SUV in spring 2015, firefighter Mike Hawksworth couldn’t cut through the door hinges to free the patient. Instead, ...

Tools are essential to extrication operations, but they have limitations. And so do people. We are often held back by habit or lack of training. Further, we too often forget that tools are meant to ...

On Sunday, four Nebraska firefighters learned new techniques with a hydraulic cutter, spreader and ram at the 18th Annual Nebraska Emergency Medical Services Association's Winter Conference in Kearney ...

The Midland Fire Department will be purchasing an electric-hydraulic cutter, spreader and accessories thanks to a $45,000 grant from the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation of Canada. “On behalf ...