Exercise height-depth rescue
Although we always work in manholes and stormwater tanks with the necessary and prescribed safety equipment, we want to prepare ourselves for an emergency that hopefully never occurs. Rescue from manholes and stormwater tanks often proves difficult, as they are often difficult to access.
Together with the professional fire fighters of Biel, we have staged a situation that could also occur in everyday working life. The victim is injured in the leg and lies in a narrow shaft of the rainwater basin. Other STEBATEC employees alert the emergency services. The height and depth rescue specialists from the Biel professional fire fighters arrive.
While part of the fire brigade provides first aid to the casualty in the rainwater basin, further preparations have to be made for the rescue. Meanwhile, the STEBATEC employees receive further information and instructions. How important it is, for example, to explain the situation in detail when the emergencycall is first made, so that the right team with the right equipment is called out so that time losses can be avoided. The other possibilities of rescuing someone from a shaft or how important it is to know the safety equipment and to constantly check its functionality were also shown.
The casualty was first treated and can now be transported out of the rainwater basin on a stretcher. He was first roped down from the elevated shaft into the stormwater tank and then out of the tank.
The second part of the exercise looked at the difficulties and solutions that exist when rescuing from an accident in a small narrow shaft.
It was a very instructive afternoon with the professional fire fighters of Biel and we hope that we will never need what we have learned.
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