There is something missing from the array of sounds that are found at many emergency scenes: the loud whirring of a gasoline-powered hydraulic unit and the buzzing of chainsaws and circular saws as ...

Topic: Ultra-High-Strength Steel (UHSS) Objective: The rescue team acknowledges its reciprocating saw, with an appropriate blade, is a tool that’s capable of cutting automotive boron-type steel Task: ...

Shelby, NC–Continuing in its tradition of firsts, HURST Jaws of Life® has launched the industry’s first watertight battery-powered extrication tool line, the HURST Jaws of Life eDRAULIC® EWXT. The ...

POWER HAWK Technologies Inc.'s new C-1604 Shredder rescue tool cutter for motor vehicle accident emergency rescues slices through the high-strength construction materials that are used in today’s new ...

Hurst Jaws of Life unveiled this month at FDIC the next generation of eDRAULIC battery-powered rescue tools – eDRAULIC 2.0. The new eDRAULIC 2.0 rescue tool line introduced at the show features two ...

The El Paso Fire Department has acquired new AMKUS Heavy Rescue tools to enhance their vehicle extrication capabilities and ...

Duluth firefighters spent Thursday smashing car windshields, ripping off doors and lifting up roofs as they learned how to use new extrication equipment. The new tools, purchased with the help of a ...

Over the past several years, many trade publications, blogs and manuals have emphasized the importance of responder positioning in relation to hydraulic tools and tactics on the extrication scene.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) National Urban Security Technology Laboratory (NUSTL) released a request for information (RFI) seeking commercially ...

Logan Township United Fire Department firefighters, Zach Bennett (from left) with a cutter, Anna Boyles with a ram and Garrett Winrick with a jaws of life, hold extrication equipment purchased ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. GARDINER —The Gardiner Fire Department will get new extrication equipment ...

A person in a driveway is working under their car and the jack collapses, pinning them underneath. An SUV skids on ice and rolls over, crashing into trees that wedge the doors shut, cutting off the ...