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Victim Extrication Techniques

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Lt. Gregg Karl of the Arlington County, Virginia, Fire Department walks a group of CERT trainees through a cribbing and leveraging exercise. This video is recommended for use in the CERT Train-the-Trainer course to demonstrate effective instructional techniques for teaching victim extrication.

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hey Sue remember you going to your scene size up appointed Incident Commander developing ocean plan Implement your plan and extricate the victim would like to be The Incident Commander since you're in the you'll get to be The Incident Commander don't you guys grab your safety equipment and come on up front  okay here's your problem do heavyweights on top of this victim you cannot lift from that end it has to be listening from this since you're going to need to crib it everything you need is here work your plan before I do that can you go through what I need in my plan before I have to run it as the commander asks do I need to supervise those tasks and make sure everything is done to Safe manner well done I need to check to see if there we have a victim purse before mic check to see if the victim is still alive victim is viable okay alright let's get started okay I'm going to stop you hear you're going to remember you need to assign tasks okay let's start with who's going to do the fulcrum would you take care of the fulcrum okay for me please if you two would take care of building are cribbing and if you could work on the medical angle and watch our victim please let's get started can't remember cuz he is going to Commander you're not coming for the Commander in the safety person do I need to watch the whole scene okay now you're tripping some place you're going to prepare to lift you always run to make sure you're going to lift  when the center of the low do you know want to live from the end so that way it doesn't shift an awkward way back onto the victim  the thing is you're going to need this a little closer your fulcrum and closer and he has he calls the commands because he has a lift okay so it's all going to be on him are you going ready lifting on three one two three one three moving if you guys one second have you on your knee because in case a load shift she need to be able to get away quick and the other problem is anytime you slide the cribbing in you don't want your hands between the load and the cribbing in case the just to keep it on the sides so it's lighted it when ready the victim clear now  okay let me down your semester play some here should we put some extra Chris books pushing this time if that happens upon 312 can we clear coming down okay we need to make a plan for getting the victim out how about if you stay on this side and you stay on this side will try to pull them out this way whole section you want to support the head and neck as you slide the victim out gently so if you get them under the arm one support the head One support the neck gently slide him out just as soon as he's clear it we finish with your task guess you're taking him away from the the letter okay they just clear  so how do we do excellent

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