Holy Cow! It’s been almost a year since we last added a post. Life has a way of doing that I suppose. We have been very busy over the past year with A LOT of private contract classes all over the country which has caused us to neglect the website a bit. We’ll pick it up a couple of notches this year! Here are a couple of recent incidents have brought us out of our digital hibernation.
A little over a month ago we were in Alexandria,VA teaching a one day class to each of the shifts. The class focused heavily on the Rescue 2 Training invention “the Appalachian Doortex”, a way to use the Arizona Vortex for elevator hoistway rescues. Almost a month to the day after the training, Alexandria FD used what they learned in our class and successfully set up a Doortex and removed the occupant of the elevator. If you saw the post on Facebook, there were certainly a lot of elevator mechanics chiming in!
Here’s a picture from the incident:
Two MPD’s anchored to the head and the haul system running in the hoistway.
Another elevator rescue was run on duty by our own Jason Ilowite. No Doortex this time, but there was an AZ Vortex, span anchor with a Paratech strut, a twin tension system. All cool stuff!
If you are interested in learning more about the Doortex and Twin Tension Rope Systems, stay tuned. We will be officially announcing our class for April 7 and 8 2018 in the next day or two!