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TWO DAY CLASSES | RESCUE SKILLS WEEKEND

Ag Emergency Rescue High Angle Rope Rescue
This two day course will assist first responders and This course provides information and skills necessary to perform
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rescue personnel with study principles and guidelines for safe rescues utilizing ropes. Topics include size-up and scene
response to agriculture related incidents. Subject matter covered management, knots, equipment, anchors, ascending/descending
includes tractor rollovers, grain auger entrapments, farm machinery techniques, and mechanical advantages. Students will participate in
entrapments, emergencies related electrical malfunctions, and rescue evolutions under supervision of the instructors. Tower rescue
chemical exposure incidents. Confined space and how it relates to will also be included in this training. The content of this course meets
incidents that involve manure pits and grain bins will be covered as the NFPA 1006 and NFPA 1670 requirements.
well. Students will learn extrication methods, machinery stabilization,
lock out/tag out of hazardous systems, in-depth look at agricultural Protective Clothing Required:
trauma, focusing on patient injuries and assessment, as well as, • Helmet
packaging. • Leather Gloves

The hands-on portion of the course will focus on implement • Safety Glasses
entrapments, entanglements, and engulfment. They will experience • Footwear that provides ankle support
first- hand an actual pressures involved on their body. Participants • Coverall are optional
will get their hands dirty.
Presented by: Chad Butler & Kory Bleeker, PRI and FSTB Field Staff
Objectives:
Instructors
• Identify the kinematics of specified farm equipment.
• Assess the patient’s condition rapidly and accurately. 861 Sat/Sun 8:30am - 3:30pm / Central Iowa Expo
• Resuscitate and stabilize the patient according to priority. Class Limit: 25
• Determine if the patient’s needs exceed a medical facility’s
capabilities. Note: Individuals from Iowa volunteer and combination fire departments
registering for this course will receive a $30.00 reduction in Fire School fees,
• Arrange appropriately for the patient’s definitive care. due to partial grant funding from the Iowa Volunteer Firefighters Training
• Ensure that optimum care is provided. Fund.
• Identify the most common causes of grain bin entrapments. EMS CEHs: 12 Formal
• Demonstrate rescue procedures of trapped patients. Sponsor #: 18-0010-016-FE
• Describe the injuries occurred by PTO entanglements.
• Demonstrate stabilization techniques involving farm HANDS-ON
accidents.
• Describe the mechanism of agricultural trauma.
Protective Clothing Required:
• Lightweight Rescue or Fire Helmet
• Safety Glasses
• Extrication Coveralls (optional) or turnout gear
• Leather gloves or Extrications Gloves

Presented by: Steven Seivert & Tyrone Belle, PRI and FSTB Field Staff
Instructors

860 Sat/Sun 8:30am - 3:30pm / Central Iowa Expo
Class Limit: 25
Note: Individuals from Iowa volunteer and combination fire departments
registering for this course will receive a $30.00 reduction in Fire School fees,
due to partial grant funding from the Iowa Volunteer Firefighters Training
Fund.

EMS CEHs: 12 Formal
Sponsor #: 18-0010-015-FE

HANDS-ON

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