Today’s vehicles are well equipped to try to keep drivers safe during a crash and include safety equipment like airbags and other technologies. Unfortunately, this can sometimes impede the progress of ...

WATERTOWN — Watertown Fire Chief Tanya Reynen is running a two-week academy for the new hires in her department.

OBJECTIVE: Given an acquired SUV-style vehicle, the rescue team shall open, move, and/or remove portions of the vehicle's side structure that would typically trap an occupant within the vehicle at a ...

Vehicle extrication is a puzzle. But it’s not a normal puzzle; it’s a puzzle with constantly changing rules. Manufacturers strive to make the best vehicle on the road so they can make the most sales.

On a 19 degree Fahrenheit day, Firehouse Labs met with representatives from Power Hawk Technologies at the Sussex County, NJ, Public Safety Academy to review the latest version of the company’s ...

Many collisions may result in victims becoming trapped. Anacortes firefighters are now using specific techniques to cut and remove vehicles from around these trapped victims. These new techniques are ...

The Deadwood Volunteer Fire Department has begun monthly vehicle extrication training sessions with the local ambulance ...

LAMAR COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) - Thousands of car accidents happen across the country everyday. Fifteen firefighters took a vehicle extrication class Thursday and Saturday to prepare for many drivers’ ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The Mobile Fire-Rescue training staff and on duty firefighters spent Thursday morning teaching extrication techniques to its newest class of recruits. “Today the big thing is ...