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    The Firehouse.com Vehicle Extrication product category is a collection of information, product listings and resources for researching vehicle extrication and rescue tool opions, including hydraulic and electric cutters, spreaders, combination tools, struts, airbags and lifting tools, extrication blankets and gloves and vehicle extraction options.
    Photos by Chris Soda
    Rescue

    Technical Rescue: Tools in Tandem for EV Extrication

    Chris Soda
    Sept. 24, 2024
    Chris Soda's guidance about the simultaneous use of a spreader and a ram gives rescuers a process that's best for extricating victims from electric vehicles.
    Palm Beach State College
    Training Drills

    PBSC to Host South Florida’s Biggest First Responder Competition

    Firehouse.com News
    April 24, 2024
    The Palm Beach State College Invitational brings together 50 teams of 400 professional firefighters and paramedics from Tallahassee to Miami and Canada to see who can best solve...
    Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS
    EMS

    City Bus, Cars in Mass Casualty Incident in Los Angeles

    March 29, 2024
    Los Angeles firefighters transported nine people to the hospital after a crash with an MTA bus and three other vehicles.
    WATCH: Tractor-trailer hangs over bridge, driver and family injured
    Operations & Training

    Crash Leaves Rig Hanging off Pittsford, NY, Bridge

    March 14, 2024
    “I’m quite flabbergasted he did survive with very minor injuries,” Henrietta Fire Chief Mark Cholach said.
    Carol Robinson/AL.com/TNS
    Rescue

    Rescuers Free Driver Trapped by Beam in Birmingham, AL

    March 9, 2024
    The U-Haul struck a 60,000-pound beam which fell and crushed the cab with Birmingham firefighters rescuing the driver.
    Dinges Fire Company
    Tools

    Dinges Fire Company Appointed “Authorized Dealer” of Amkus Rescue Tools

    Amkus, Inc.
    March 1, 2024
    The deal makes Dinges Fire the official authorized Amkus dealer in seven midwestern states.