Ropes & Knots.pdf - Los Angeles County Firefighters Association
Ropes & Knots.pdf - Los Angeles County Firefighters Association
Ropes & Knots.pdf - Los Angeles County Firefighters Association
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LOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT<br />
CONTEXT TRAINING PROGRAM<br />
STRETCHER LASHING<br />
OBJECTIVE: 1.<br />
Demonstrate the ability to properly secure a victim in a wire basket<br />
stretcher, using the procedures indicated in the Context Training<br />
manual and Volume 4, Chapter 6.<br />
2. To answer general information questions about rope systems.<br />
3. All operations are to be completed in sequence without safety<br />
violations.<br />
EQUIPMENT: 1. Wire basket stretcher.<br />
2. One Miller board.<br />
3. One red webbing. (22')<br />
4. Two blue webbing. (12’)<br />
5. One person acting as a victim.<br />
DESCRIPTION OF EVOLUTION:<br />
1. All personnel will have personal safety equipment donned.<br />
2. Answer questions about rope systems.<br />
3. Personnel will properly interior lash a victim inside a wire basket<br />
stretcher.<br />
4. Personnel will execute an exterior lash, fully securing the victim to<br />
the wire basket stretcher.<br />
5. The evolution is complete when the victim is correctly lashed into<br />
the wire basket stretcher.