FIRST Safety and Rescue Training

High Angle Rescue Training On Board USS Lexington CORPUS CHRISTI, TX
First In Rescue, Safety and Training or FIRST, a safety services
company based in Deer Park, Texas, conducted high angle rescue and
confined space rescue training for the Houston Fire Department
Technical Rescue Team on board the USS Lexington Aircraft Carrier
(Ret.) docked in Corpus Christi, Texas. Logan Reininger, Director of
Operations for FIRST described the training. We wanted to give the
HFD Rescue Team a challenging venue for their training and decide on
the USS Lexington. It gives many different scenarios for high angle
rescue, repelling and confined space rescue that you cant find at
the standard fire department training field. This makes the rescuer
have to think out of the box and become more creative when in an
emergency situation and some ones life is in the balance. We
repelled off the top of the ship, conducted numerous confined space
entries, pick-offs and lowers with live patients in the stokes
baskets. The rescue teams were challenged throughout the three day
event and admitted to enjoying the cool breeze coming off the Corpus
Christi Bay while training on the retired aircraft carrier. When you
compare the cost of a venue like this as opposed to the College
Station training field, we have found you get more bang for your
buck here when you add in the factor of being in a resort city along
the gulf. Most of the rescue teams go to the same, standard training
field year after year. At

High Angle Rescue Training On Board USS Lexington CORPUS CHRISTI, TX
First In Rescue, Safety and Training or FIRST, a safety services
company based in Deer Park, Texas, conducted high angle rescue and
confined space rescue training for the Houston Fire Department
Technical Rescue Team on board the USS Lexington Aircraft Carrier
(Ret.) docked in Corpus Christi, Texas. Logan Reininger, Director of
Operations for FIRST described the training. We wanted to give the
HFD Rescue Team a challenging venue for their training and decide on
the USS Lexington. It gives many different scenarios for high ang...