Tech Rescue talk

Petzl Technical Partner

Steve

May 1, 2024

🎉🔗 Exciting Announcement from Capital TechnicalRescue and Safety Consultants, LLC (CTR)! 🔗🎉

We are thrilled to share that CTR has officially joined the prestigious Petzl Technical Partner (PTP) network! 🌟 As a member of this esteemed network, we are committed to upholding the highest standards of technical proficiency, safety, and innovation in the industry.

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2022 NYS Technical Rescue Conference

Steve Disick

March 23, 2022

Excited to announce we are once again presenting at the Technical Rescue Conference at the NYS DHSES State Preparedness Training Center - June 3rd - 5th, 2022!!


This year we will be presenting two 180 minute hands on workshops  1. Rigging Challenges and 2. Small Teams / Efficiency in Rescue.

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Factors of Safety

Cliff Freer

April 30, 2021

It is the responsibility of every Rope Rescue Operator and Technician to determine if the system they are utilizing is “safe”. There has long been the misnomer that our “Safety Factors” for rope rescue in the fire service were required to be 15:1.

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Open Enrollment Courses

Steve Disick

April 5, 2021

We are excited to announce multiple Open Enrollment courses and clinics that can take you or your team members from basic rescue knowledge to advanced specialty clinics. All of these courses are on our website now and are open for registration.

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April Fools! Tandem Twin Tension Rope Systems

Steve Disick

April 1, 2021

The new website has officially launched, however that was not at all an April Fools joke. Our Facebook and Instagram post of the "Tandem Twin Tension Rope System - TTTRS" absolutely was a joke, and we managed to hook a few big fish on that one! Honestly we are still laughing about it.

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Fall Protection in the Rescue Training Environment

Cliff Freer

December 29, 2017

The fire service is an amazing and rewarding profession with limitless potential. Like many other professions we face challenges that go way beyond our responses. Unions fighting for salaries, manning, training and equipment. Insurance prices increase to the same proportion as our benefits decrease. We have an enormous amount of latitude while we are operating at the scene of an emergency to accomplish our goals and occasionally we get injured and sometimes it’s much worse. That will always be as noble as it is regrettable. First Responders work in hazardous environments. That requires us to simulate these environments as best we can to achieve realistic and effective training. When someone gets injured it always forces us to take that moment to pause, that gut check that we did right by the people we are responsible for. Risk can rarely be eliminated completely but with a good look how we manage and setup our training environments we can get close while still providing excellent training.

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