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E-MAG 19 RESCUETECHNICAL EMS, EXTRICATION,SAR, AQUATIC, ROPE, DIVE, TACTICAL & USAR In stark contrast to the balmy weather in Cairns, Queensland on the cover of hard copy issue 60 our Emag cover is from Martin Boyle, another Australian but this time from Australian Emergency Management in Antarctica which promises to bring temperatures down a notch or two. 1 TECHNICALRESCUE E-magazine19 www.trescue.com CONTENTS Contents E-Mag 19 3 PRODUCTS Wenger Swisstool Channelock #89 Rescue Tool ResQtec Building Collapse Trailer 4 How to Buy an Ice Axe by Ken Osterkamp 5 2011 Canpro PHOTO COMPETITION * VIEWS EXPRESSED IN ARTICLES ARE NOT NECESSARILY 6 AutoRenewal Subscription Offer THOSE OF TECHNICAL 7 Who’s Whoat TRm RESCUE magazine 8 What Jackets do we use? 9 GEAR REVIEWs by Gear Flogger: EcoGear Duffel Wenger Yeti Boot DMM Revolver Carabiner 10 ISSUE 60 What’s acomin’ 14 AQUATIC In the News Floods & Landslide Brazil, Africa and Australia 17 IN THE NEWS: The Cost of Disasters 18 Arb Rescue by James Fairfield 20 PRODUCTS FunYak FY390 Black Team Maxi Wedge Kit StatBand Triage tag Mammut Smart Belay device 22 EVENTS Neil Noble at EMS Today 2011 & SAR 2011 24 UK Ambulance HART West Mids by Rich Bell 26 USCG NEWS Ice Rescue 27 SAFETY NOTICES Pyott Boone Gas Moitors 28 EQUIPMENT GALLERY PELI torches 30 Team Badges 32 Back issues 33 What’s on the Cover 34 COMING SOON Rescue in ANTARCTICA 36 Rope Useage Poll We mostly work remote from the office phone so don’t expect an answer. However, we will ring you back if your message hasn’t been accidentally deleted. Better still email us because we monitor these regardless of where we are: [email protected] [email protected] 2 TECHNICALRESCUE E-magazine19 www.trescue.com PRODUCTS Army Knife", the first world-famous multi- SWISSTOOL tool. Because it is easy to operate particular- The Channellock ly functional, versatile and easy, even the #89 #89 Rescue Tool SPIRIT SwissTool has received since its launch in was designed by 1999 by experts highest RESCUE firefighters, for Not new, since it was recognition. firefighters and first available in The Spirit is its first responders. 2006 but worth predecessor, TOOL According to bringing to your the Ryan DeArment, attention if you’re SwissTool, director of mar- not already famil- to no keting “ We iar with the origi- one talked to many nal Victorinox and firefighters SwissTool which about emer- was designed to gency situations, give the and we learned Leatherman that they don’t Supertool a run have time to for its money. search for the That’s a tough correct tool, The act to take true advantage on espe- of the Rescue cially Tool line is that it allows first responders to carry a tool since in their pocket that provides multiple life-saving func- the tions." new Manufactured in Meadville, Pa., the #89 combines Leatherman multiple essential functions into one lightweight tool, Supertool that eliminating the weight and bulk of carrying many tools. we are currently testing is just about the is one of the most versatile The main feature of the #89 Rescue Tool is a hardened biggest and meanest multitool out there. multi-tool in the whole range. The modified cutting edge designed to shear through soft metal and However, to give them their due, Victorinox product now includes the traditional dull standard battery cables. Along with this some of the did pretty well with their first multitool. The blade knives with scissors instead of the sec- other tools features are: Spirit is a redesign aimed at making the ond blade is installed. A SwissTool Spirit con- •Integrated cable cutter SPECIFICATIONS: SwissTool more ergonomic and comfortable sists of the following items: •Narrow jaw that fits Length: 10.99” in the hand whilst retaining all the heavier Needlenose pliers, screwdrivers 2, 3 and 6 into tight spaces Weight: 1.59 lb duty tools (heavier duty than the traditional mm, wire cutter for thin and soft wire up to •Tapered pry wedge to Jaw Length: 1.43” Swiss Army Knife). This is what Victorinox 40 HRc, cap lifter, nail puller, blade with plain open doors and windows Joint Thickness: .53” have to say about the Spirit..... and serrated edge, sharp blade or scissors, •Spanner wrench tight- Joint Width: 1.62” As the successor of the Victorinox SwissTool metal file, metal saw, wood saw, reamer and ens and loosens up to 6- Cutting Length: 1.43” SwissTool Spirit developed and this is now punch, Phillips screwdriver 1 +2, chisel / inch hose couplings supplemented by a model with a sharp scraper, cable cover cutter lengthwise, wire •Gas shut-off valve slot blade. The Spirit is more ergonomic, more bender, wire stripper and scraper, cable •Window punch for elegant and easier. With just 205 g of a cover cutter, can opener, multi purpose safety glass corpse weight, it surprises with its 27 func- hook, leather pouch, coupling for corkscrew, tions. hard wire cutter, 10 individual springs, lock Over 100 years ago was the original "Swiss release ww.victorinox.com www.theRescueTool.com BUILDING COLLAPSE TRAILER from ResQTec If you have specific needs, RESQTEC can tailor- The Collapsed Building trailer contains all neces- make solutions. With years of experience and sary equipment for combating large collapsed know-how of rescue we would like to help you buildings; hydraulic tools, NT Lifting Bags, ProFix, picture an eventual future rescue scenario. An CribBlocks and all their accessories. This trailer can example is the Collapsed Building Trailer. easily be stationed in strategic areas, be moved The Collapsed Building Trailer has been devel- quickly and be driven safely on unpaved roads. This oped together and in close cooperation with trailer is modular, requires little maintenance and Civil Defense of Saudi Arabia. can be updated easily. www.resqtec.eu www.trescue.com TECHNICALRESCUE E-magazine19 3 GEAR Bernie Madoff, as in: “I dropped my axe and the mountain done made-off How to Buy with it.” The leash should be able to support body weight, which any climb- ing sling will easily, since it’s possible you might have to use it as a very tem- an Ice Axe porary anchor to free your hands for something else. by Ken Osterkamp You basically have a two choices in sling design: a hand leash that secures ce axes, with cram- other stuff that might make plunging As always it’s about managing risk and your axe to your wrist, or a longer lan- pons and ropes, are the shaft into hard snow any more dif- consequences. That all-aluminum yard-style leash that attaches to the the definitive tools of ficult than it has to be. When you model will be only slightly more useful I harness or body. The advantage of the the mountaineer. Within plunge your axe for the 1,000th time than a salad spinner if that slope turns lanyard is that you can easily switch- this holy trinity the axe def- on a long climbing day you’ll thank me. out to be thinly-covered hard ice. back up a slope while swapping hands initely owns the cool factor Next, check the head. Is it steel? It bet- to keep your axe on the correct (uphill) because in a major motion ter be, or else you’ll be watching your WHAT’S WITH THE RATINGS? side, without stopping to switch your picture you can kill someone friend effortlessly chopping steps in CE. ISO. UIAA. You see the acronyms, leash. Make your own or buy one, it’s with it. alpine ice while your anorexic little alu- but really, WTF? Here’s the beta: in up to you. minum number bounces off like Polish Europe climbing gear is considered Two other accessories that are useful: CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON cavalry off Nazi tanks. The adze should personal protective equipment, like a pick and spike protectors and a head OK, that was a lot of informa- feel comfortable under your hand when condom, and as such is required to insulator. Pick and spike protectors tion for a dumb climber. Grab you rest your weight on it, because meet certain safety standards. Very are usually rubber or leather. They exist a beer. Sit down. Hydrate. First you’ll be doing this a lot as you wheeze roughly speaking these are created by for transport and storage of the axe to you’ll need to figure out length. your carcass uphill. the UIAA, approved by the CE (also keep the sharp pointy parts from tear- While standing normally hold Once you’ve found the correct weight, called CEN) and tested in accordance ing a new one in other, softer gear like the axe head in your hand, palm length, shaft and head you’re pretty with ISO. These stamps are useful but your new $500 down fart sack. on top, pick to the front in stan- much there. Other desirable features by no means infallible, mostly because Insulating the head of your axe where dard walking or “cane” position. include an adequately sized carabiner testing doesn’t always accurately you grip it is not a bad idea, since the If you listen to jazz, talk exces- hole in both the head and in the spike, reflect real world conditions. metal is surprisingly effective at draw- sively about wine and are gener- useful for deploying the axe as an In America, we don’t give a rat’s ass ing heat out of your hand. You can buy ally annoying and pretentious you anchor, to belay with, or for just rack- and rely on reputation enforced by liti- a head insulator, but why would you? will insist on calling this piolet ing the axe on a carabiner off your har- gation.

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