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Collapsed Structure Rescue Class
1998

 

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The Collapsed Structure Rescue course of 1998 included fire fighters and rescue specialists from teams all around the country. Only a few of the students were DART members. Many of the students in this class would come back in later years to be CSRC instructors. We would also see some of these students in real disasters, working with their teams, at places like the World Trade Center. When one works a real situation, it is comforting to be working with people one has trained with before.

The CSRC Class of 1998. (48,274 bytes) Taking a chow break. (46,772 bytes) Erecting a shore in a confined space. (53,571 bytes) Night lighting on the equipment staging area. (24,288 bytes) Core drilling through concrete floor. (34,796 bytes)
Students practicing hammering on concrete slabs at odd angles. (43,618 bytes) Students practicing hammering techniques on concrete slabs. (34,231 bytes) Students practicing with a gas-powered circular saw to gain access to a concrete tube. (39,209 bytes) Load testing of a modified offset horizontal shore. (51,460 bytes) Students practicing techniques for using a gas-powered core drill. (46,077 bytes)
A student is working in a confined space. (37,232 bytes) Instructors conferring in the Command Post. (35,399 bytes) Lighting rope being strung in the underground chambers. (52,101 bytes) A Stanley portable hydraulic power unit and a Makita electrical generator being used in the final scenario. (59,219 bytes) Students conferring with their squad leader at one of the entrances of the final scenario prop. (30,446 bytes)
A medical treatment station has been set up at the rescue site. (38,008 bytes) A battery charging station has been set up on a cutting table near the equipment staging area. (60,306 bytes) Student Forrest Rowell studying some notes during a break. (47,096 bytes) Class instructor, and DART Deputy Chief, Mark Tangney attempting to get better seating. (41,801 bytes) Rescue operations are taking place within a confined space. (34,699 bytes)
Notice the shoring at the entrance to the space. (27,471 bytes) Students are taught to draw up the shore they want to build. (31,885 bytes) A student connecting timbers on a vertical shore. (36,178 bytes) Draw what you want to build. (30,075 bytes) Yeah folks, we are NASA and we do have some rocket scientists on DART. (45,774 bytes)
Students are prefabricating as much of the shore as possible in the safety outside the confined space. (52,143 bytes) The students have identified a speedy way to build two vertical shore headers. Build one long one and cut it in two. (44,026 bytes) DART instructors milling about smartly during a break in activities. (41,909 bytes) Student's quickly evacuating the A student is constructing a window shore in the breach they made in the concrete wall. (37,079 bytes)
Here's a squad taking a break. (56,338 bytes) DART instructor giving a briefing at the start of the day's activities. (43,072 bytes) Students learn to build horizontal shoring in relatively open spaces. (29,049 bytes) One of the students is exiting through one of the breaches. (41,817 bytes) A collapsed concrete ceiling/floor has been lifted and cribbed. (47,012 bytes)
A victim has been removed from the collapsed structure in a SKED. (34,481 bytes) A rescue squad conferring during night operations. (27,954 bytes) DART rescue specialist helping to lower a hydraulic cutting tool to the team in the next level down. (46,477 bytes)    

 

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