Disentanglement Drill
Disentanglement Drill
Fire Engineering has a good article on disentanglement. Captains Jim Nagle and Jeff Edmonds, of the Everett (WA) Fire Department Training Division put the article together. Here is my favorite piece:
We found several commonalities among crews most successful at getting through before running totally out of air: They stayed closely bunched. This enabled team members to untangle each other, and aided communication. Those that became spread out were less effective because they had to duplicate effort, and work on their own. In addition, crews who created a low profile by putting their air bottles in the corner, and basically inching through on their backs, found greater success. Those that stuck to the typical crawl on hands and knees became entangled time and again.
Emphasis mine.
Photo courtesy of PennWell Corporation.
What a great way to get your SCBA out of the way in an entanglement situation.
They also list 10 things to remember in entanglement situations. Read the whole article - good stuff.
