All drills / Rescue
Officer down rescue
Practice reaching a downed partner, moving them to cover and starting self-aid or buddy aid.
- Goal
- Get a downed officer to cover and control bleeding quickly.
- Length
- 30 minutes
- For
- Law Enforcement
- Category
- Rescue
- Level
- Advanced
- People
- 2 to 4 officers, a downed officer dummy and an instructor.
What is inside
- 6 step-by-step instructions for running it
- 3 points on what good looks like
- 2 debrief questions
- Setup, equipment and safety notes
- A ready lesson plan: audience, standards it lines up with, objectives, lecture outline, scenario and final evaluation
- A sign-in roster your crew signs on their own phones (department plans)
Two drills are free every week. Pro and department plans open all 164. General training ideas only: your agency's protocols, policies and medical director come first. 24On is not accredited and does not approve hours.
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- RIT package deployment
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- Self-rescue: wall breach
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Practice breaching a training wall and passing through the stud space with a reduced SCBA profile.
- Downed firefighter stair removal
Rescue · 35 min · Advanced
Move a downed firefighter up or down a flight of stairs as a team, using drag straps and coordinated commands.