{"id":412,"date":"2011-11-11T15:26:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T22:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/preparedblog.com\/?p=412"},"modified":"2011-11-11T15:26:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T22:26:37","slug":"cert-day-7-search-and-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/cert\/cert-day-7-search-and-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"CERT Day 7 – Search and Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Light search & rescue.<\/p>\n

The “rules” for light search and rescue, for example, trying to help people who may be trapped in a building after an earthquake (or anything else that could knock a building down) are as follows:<\/p>\n

1) Be safe!
\n2) Do the greatest good for the most people, vs. dedicating all of your resources to solving one problem of many<\/p>\n

Of course, before you run willy-nilly into a building to rescue someone, you need to determine whether you will die if you do that :-|.\u00a0 You must evaluate the scene and see how dangerous it is.\u00a0 One of the first things to do is to look at the damage.\u00a0 If it’s light or medium damange, you may consider entering, searching, and rescuing as needed.\u00a0 If the damage is heavy, don’t go it.<\/p>\n

\"Earthquake<\/a>
Earthquake-damaged basement - would you go in?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Don’t go in and rescue the crying person?\u00a0 That’s terrible!”\u00a0\u00a0 Yes it is.\u00a0 But it’s not as terrible as you going inside and possibly:
\n1) Causing the building to collapse further, making the situation worse for the trapped person or
\n2) Getting trapped yourself, making the situation worse for everyone else you could otherwise be helping, as well as for yourself!<\/p>\n

What do you do when you\u00a0encounter heavy damage and someone making noise inside?\u00a0 You say\u00a0“I can’t come in. It’s too dangerous. We’ll send in someone with the right training as soon as we possibly can.”\u00a0 Those are the unfortunate, frustrating words you’ll get to shout to some poor soul who wants out.<\/div>\n

In addition to learning more about damage and search techniques, we learned a bit about cribbing.\u00a0 What is cribbing?\u00a0 If you look up the noun, it’s defined as a temporary wooden structure used to support heavy objects during construction, search and rescue, etc.<\/p>\n

We also used it as\u00a0a verb: to build up those wooden supports while levering something heavy off of a victim.\u00a0 This comes in handy when you have a piece of wall or bookshelf or whatever pinning a victim down, and some other pieces of wood to use as a lever and cribbing to free him or her, in an emergency.\u00a0 It’s not too difficult to imagine a situation like this after an earthquake, when the fire department is too overloaded to help, and it’s a life or death situation.<\/p>\n

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\"Cribbing<\/a>
Cribbing Exercise: Rescue the Trapped Victim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As you can see in the picture here, we have a victim trapped under a pallet with a huge tire on top of it.\u00a0 The piles of wood are pieces of 2×4, but for purposes of emergency cribbing, they of course don’t have to be as pretty as these.\u00a0 What did we do next?\u00a0 After our FD captain explained the basics, we used a lever and pieces of wood to slowly and safely (it didn’t fall back onto the victim or any of the rescuers!) raise the pallet off of the “victim”, so we could pull her out and do first aid.\u00a0 To see what the end result looks like, take a CERT course! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Do I expect I’ll be doing any cribbing soon?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Is it more likely that I’ll need to use a fire extinguisher effectively<\/a>?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 But it’s also a good tool to have in your toolbox, and I know a lot more now about it than I did before.<\/p>\n

As with everything we do in our CERT training, this will not make me an expert Search-and-Rescue operator, or a carpenter, physician, or engineer.\u00a0 But it does give me some good ideas for how I can help in a pinch.<\/p>\n

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Light search & rescue. The “rules” for light search and rescue, for example, trying to help people who may be trapped in a building after an earthquake (or anything else that could knock a building down) are as follows: 1) Be safe! 2) Do the greatest good for the most people, vs. dedicating all of … Continue reading CERT Day 7 – Search and Rescue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}