Spotting your apparatus between yourself and oncoming traffic at accident scenes is critical for Firefighter / Rescuer safety.
This video emphasizes firefighter safety training and fire apparatus spotting:
Long Beach, CA FFs responding to a traffic accident are themselves struck by a suspected drunk driver at a busy intersection. While rescuers are transporting patients in the vehicle that struck the Truck Co, a second vehicle cruising through an adjacent parking lot strikes a pedestrian and pins her under that car…Apparently the occupants of that car were watching the action in the street instead of foot traffic in the parking lot… A very busy incident!
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The guy talking to the PT did a good job. It sounds silly but we need to remember if the PT is A and O they don’t always understand what we are doing to extricate them. good idea to have somebody talk them through what we are doing… I.E. the engineer can always hold a hand and chat.
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