“We will risk our lives in a calculated way that is

appropriate to the situation to save savable lives.

We will not risk our lives at all for that which is
already lost.”
 Rescue –Those activities directed at locating endangered person at an emergency
incident, removing those person from danger, treating the injured and providing
for transport to an appropriate health care facility.
 Rescue Technician – A person who is trained to perform a specific type of technical
rescue.
GOAL OF RESCUE
 Extricate
 Treat
 Transport
Goal of rescue can be best met if the 3S’s will be considered.
- Safety, Sureness and Simplicity
 Safety – is a mindset all rescuers must possess.
Safety is considered one of the most difficult and unforgiving activities that
the first responder team faces in the line of duty.
 Sureness – means that you and your team are absolutely confident that you have
been given the training and acquired the skills available.
 Simplicity – is not as simple as it sounds; the simplest way is often the most
effective.
 Is defined as any rescue effort that requires rope and related equipment to safely
gain access to, and remove patients from, hazardous geographic areas with limited
access such as mountains, high rise building, above and below grade structures, by
means of rope system.

 Structural Collapse
 Water
 Wilderness Search & Rescue
 Rope Rescue (High Angle, Steep Angle Low Angle)
 Trench Collapse
 Confined Space
 Ropes – one of the oldest tools used by the fire service. Rope is very valuable for applications
such as hauling, accomplishing rescuers of different evaluation, stabilizing vehicles and
cordoning off.

Most Common Types of Rope Construction:

 Laid Rope – composed of three strands twisted together to form the final rope. Twisted ropes are
susceptible to abrasion and other types of physical.

 Braided – compare to laid rope, it reduces or eliminates the twisting common to laid ropes.
 Braid – on – braid – also a jacketed rope, but compare to kernmantle, it’s sheath
may slide along the inner core of the rope.

 Kernmantle Rope – jacketed type. Composed of braided covering or sheath

(mantle) over the load-bearing strands (kern).

Dynamic 60% elasticity

Static 20% elasticity
STANDARD SAFETY
 According to the NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) 1983-95 Standard, life
safety rope is designed “for supporting people during rescue, fire fighting or other
emergency procedures, or during training evolutions”

Life Safety Rope must have a minimum breaking strength of;

 4,500 lbs. for a single person load of 300 lbs. 4500/300 lbs.
( includes rescue equipment) ( 300 lbs. – 136 kg.)
 9,000 lbs. for a two – person, 600 lbs. load 9000/600 lbs.
( includes equipment)

Rope Size Breaking Strength (lbs.)

6mm 2,500
8mm 3,500
9mm 4,500
12,7 mm (1/2”) 9,000
What are.....

 KNOT – a fixed, non-moveable place on a piece of cordage that is achieved

through turns, bends and tie – offs.
 BEND – is the intertwining of two ends of rope.
 HITCH – a knot that attaches to or wraps around an object, and when the object is
removed, the knot will fall apart.
 LOOP – an element of a knot created by forming a complete circle in a rope.
ELEMENTS OF A KNOT
 BIGHT – the open loop in a rope or piece of webbing formed when it is doubled
back on itself.

 LOOP – made by crossing the side of a bight over standing part.

 ROUND TURN – consists of further bending of one side of a loop.