
High Angle Rescue Techniques
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
3rd Edition
Published on 9. November 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
413 pages
978-1-284-02528-6 (ISBN)
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Everything you need to know about high angle rescue! High angle rescue is difficult. Learning how to do it shouldn't be. The step-by-step approach of this unique, full-color text makes it easy to learn everything you need to know about high angle rescue - including planning for an incident, managing a team, troubleshooting problems, operating equipment, and so much more!
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Sudbury
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Weight
1049 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-284-02528-6 (9781284025286)
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Tom Vines has a wide spectrum of experience in urban and backcountry emergency services, along with years of work in training emergency responders and in publications.While in the east coast, he provided consulting services on high angle rope techniques to the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Special Operations Division and to theNational Headquarters of The International Association of Firefighters. While there, he responded to search and rescue calls to backcounty areas that included vertical caveemergencies.While in Montana, he served a Civilian Deputy for Search and Rescue (ret) for Carbon County and worked search and rescue responses in the mountain areas of Carbon Countyand adjoining Stillwater County. In nearby Yellowstone National Park, he has joined in mutual response training with national park rangers in specialties such as helicopterrappelling and helicopter short haul operations.His medical experience includes ambulance service in Billings, Montana and as an instructor in wilderness'EMS.On the national scene, he helped establish and coordinate the International Technical Rescue Symposium (ITRS). For 20 years, he edited the "Rescue Report," column, a reviewand analysis of actual rescue incidents nationwide. In addition to the three previous editions of High Angle Rescue Techniques, he was co-author forConfined Space and Structural Rope Rescue.