Ropes & Knots.pdf - Los Angeles County Firefighters Association

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2. Chest Lash cont:
LOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT
CONTEXT TRAINING PROGRAM
c. Pass one webbing bight through the other.
d. Place your hand through the webbing bight, which was passed through,
and grasp the lower bight.
e. Pull the lower webbing bight through the bight where the hand was
inserted.
f. The hand not in use grasps the bights and pulls the harness snug as the
index finger holds the longer bight in position. Secure the lash with a half
hitch. (See: Volume 4, Chapter 6, Subject 8)
g. Attach the bight (tail) of the chest lash to one of the pre-rigged carabiners.
(See: Volume 4, Chapter 6, Subject 9, page 5)
h. Connect the chest harness to the prerig carabiners.
NOTE: The hasty chest harness knot is also referred to as a "locking larks foot".
3. Lashing victim to Miller backboard:
(See: Volume 4, Chapter 6, Subject 9, page 6)
a. Secure the victim to the backboard in the prescribed manner and place in
the wire basket stretcher.
b. Using the 12' blue webbing, tie the ends together with a water knot
forming a sling, then double in half.
c. Place doubled sling down through the hand hold at the head of the
backboard, under the backboard and up through the hand hold on the
opposite side.
d. Clip both ends of the sling into the carabiners, holding the prerig onto the
head of the stretcher.