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Extrication.Com
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Extrication.Com provides emergency responders worldwide with the latest information and training for motor vehicle rescue. Beginning June of 2008, Extrication.Com became the distributor for ResQTec heavy rescue tools and service for MA, RI, southern NH, U.S. Virgin/Caribbean Islands, Department of Defense, and Homeland Security.

We welcome inquiries from all emergency responders and related agencies for both training and heavy rescue tools and related equipment:

Please take a moment to browse through our website, if you have any questions about motor vehicle extrication or our training programs feel free to contact us. We are always willing to answer a question and offer advice or work with you to develop a quote for training for training needs.

Company Mission

Extrication.Com is dedicated to the specialty field of motor vehicle extrication providing emergency responders with the latest training and safety information necessary to safely mitigate a motor vehicle rescue.

Extrication.Com has become one of the leading contenders in the field of extrication providing training, program development and other related contractual services for the fire, police, EMS, U.S. Department of Defense and companies within the automobile industry.

Our Company Training Philosophy

Extrication.Com's principals and techniques are based on minimum manpower, simplicity, team concept enabling the responders to develop the most efficient means possible to safely mitigate a vehicle rescue. Never do we teach that there is only one way to do things. We strive to reduce your overall extrication time without compromising safety or patient care.

Company Profile

Ron Shaw, is the founder of Extrication.Com and primary company lead instructor holding state and national certifications as a fire service instructor having an expertise in motor vehicle extrication.

Extrication.Com  safety articles written by Ron Shaw have been published by Carolina Fire Rescue and EMS Journal, Fire Engineering, Galls, Firehouse Magazine, ISFSI Voice, OSFM and other emergency service related publications and online periodicals. Ron Shaw is currently compiling an official Extrication.Com basic skills textbook for Jones & Bartlett Publishers due to be published in 2009.

All assisting instructors hold certifications as fire service instructors and are the best supporting adjunct instructors in the industry. Extrication.Com instructors are not just hired help. They are alumni of our 40-hour extrication programs. Our instructor curriculum philosophy is simple; you can't teach what you don't know yourself. Guest speakers/trainers have an expertise in specific areas of training and help enhance the quality of our programs.

Extrication.Com has taught vehicle extrication at the basic, intermediate and advanced training skills to emergency responders from four continents, and in the United States coast to coast and border to border. All Extrication.Com programs meet NFPA Standards in part, in whole or exceed the recommendations for FF II, 1006 and 1670 recommendations pertaining to motor vehicle extrication curriculum. Each Extrication.Com program receives full emergency medical technician (basic, intermediate and paramedic) credit hours as sanctioned by the MA OEMS. 

Our client agencies are unique, so are our programs that can be specifically tailored to fit the individual needs of the agencies that we serve. Some agencies have specific and unusual training needs not normally seen in the fire service, we can adjust to conform to those needs. Extrication.Com is at home working with fire, law enforcement, military and private agencies throughout the world. Our company has no geographical boundaries, we welcome the opportunity to work with you.

When considering training consultants; Extrication.Com leads the way in extrication training by doing our own research and development while others copy, move out of our way and follow by our example. For years responders have been taught to make time consuming tasks that may not be necessary and will increase the total overall time to complete their mission during a rescue.

Extrication.Com has taught responders to lower the global average time to displace a dash from 16-30 minutes down to a remarkable 4-6 minutes or less. Our techniques are fast being adopted around the world by the emergency services, including the military specialty groups. In 1999 Extrication.Com developed the extrication technique know as the "Modified Dash Roll ©" to cope with active side impact protection, vehicle under/over rides and rapid intervention for crash vehicles with a dashboard entrapment. Since then we have also developed other techniques that can be use for space making while avoiding active SIPS  components.

Among the company's accomplishments are being able to work with one of the world's leading automobile manufacturers assisting in the development of emergency response guide lines for innovative automobiles such as hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

On the day of "9-11" Extrication.Com started working with elite members from U.S. Department of Defense. We have a very unique working relationship and can develop specific training programs to assist DOD clients with special needs. We are the leaders in vehicle extrication training, we do our own research, and develop rescue techniques to match today's technology.


Extrication.Com can Help!

Extrication.Com offers the most informative classroom presentations available at three skills levels; basic, intermediate and advanced. Our skills levels are based on the following criteria:

  1. Basic Skills: Designed for the entry level responder with no prior extrication experience, working with practical evolutions having a minimal degree of risk for passenger vehicles. No prerequisite required at this level of training. Open enrollments are available to police, fire, EMS, DOD and tow personnel.

  2. Intermediate Skills: Responders who are proficient at  basic extrication skills, working with practical evolutions having an moderate degree of risk and complexity; vehicles inverted, on their side, under/over rides requiring more advanced stabilizing techniques. The cognitive and enabling objectives of these programs are beyond basic skills level of training required for entry level responder; including alternative techniques such as the Modified Dash Roll for passenger and other types of motor vehicles.

  3. Advanced Skills: responders who are proficient at basic & intermediate extrication skills, working with practical evolutions having the highest degree of risk and complexity for passenger, medium & heavy duty trucks, buses, heavy machinery and other specialty vehicles.

Extrication.Com's practical advanced training scenarios are unique, often copied, but never really emulated. We don't just cut up prop vehicles for our practical sessions we utilize them to replicate surrealistic evolutions that you may encounter in the field.

Extrication.Com teaches you about the vehicle: hazards, passive safety features, construction, typical stress points. With today's innovative vehicles we stress how to read the wreck using a quick visual scanning technique, properly stabilize, immobilize and disable the vehicles as required.

In our more advanced programs we try to emulate surrealistic scenarios that cause the student to  think beyond the entry skills level of training and work together as a well organized team. The complexity of our advanced programs are based on the local logistics available and overall student skills ability for that class. Our advanced students will be using all of their prior training skills to safely mitigate the relevant rescue scenarios not available to the basic skills program. Extrication.Com training programs meet or exceed nationally accepted extrication training curriculum for the desired skills level. The training also focuses on relevant techniques and procedures not currently included in recommendations for passenger vehicles, heavy trucks and bus extrication. We don't just cutting up the prop vehicles, this is not realistic extrication training.

If your agency is looking for quality training with the best available instructors providing you with classroom and practical sessions second to none, we can help! We promise that when you walk away the end of practical training session, besides being tired, you'll be given a wealth of useful information and techniques that are relevant.

If you sign up for our hands-on classes you should be in good health and expect to be tired at the end of the day.  Everyone is equal in our program. While we respect rank, it is felt that a good officer can't know the limitations of their personnel unless they too have walked in their shoes.

Those that want to take still photos may do so at the end of the practical session. We will allow staged photo sessions at the end of the practical for those that would like to take pictures. This is a liability issue and we do not want distractions while working with unforgiving heavy rescue tools and equipment.

After completing our training programs followed by Extrication.Com's recommendations, your agency should be able to significantly reduce it's average overall vehicle extrication timed baseline to mitigate a rescue. We can assist your agency in establishing an on-going training program and/or departmental SOPs and/or SOGs for modern vehicle rescue.


Progressive Training

All Extrication.Com training programs are taught progressively according to skills levels. Within a skills level attendees start with the simplest evolutions and progress to more complex and higher risk evolutions for that level.

A common question asked; "Can we attend only the only the advanced segments to your 40-hour program?" The answer would be no. The only exception would be if a prior student completed both basic and intermediate skills levels with Extrication.Com.

In our 40-hour program attendees must attend all skills levels prior to advancing to the next without exception, regardless of prior experience or training. You may not take only the advanced skills levels in this program.

Once a responder completes this program they may further their learning skills with more advanced programs for heavy farm/construction equipment and machinery and tow operators.

For responders interested in rescue technician qualifications our programs will meet NFPA Standards for Fire Fighter II pertaining to vehicle extrication at the appropriate skills level (awareness, operational) the 40-hour program exceeds this level. For responders desiring to meet NFPA Standards 1006 and 1670 for pertaining to vehicle and machinery extrication disciplines Extrication.Com has expanded our program offerings to include heavy machinery extrication. 

There are no requisites, this program is designed for those attending at the entry level or seasoned responder desiring to learn more.

Interested in hosting a Extrication.Com?  We have training basic, intermediate and advanced program offerings that can be designed specifically for your agency.

Next 2009 40-Hour Open Enrollment Program

Kitchener Fire Department, Kitchener ONT Canada
40-hour Basic-Intermediate-Advanced Skills WeekDAY Program
Monday May 25th through Friday May 29th, 2009

Note: This program is open to any emergency responder.

Host Agency: Kitchener Fire Department, Kitchener ONT Canada
Point of Contact: Calvin Monique, Training Director Kitchener Fire Department
Phone: 519-741-2894
Email: cal.monique@city.kitchener.on.ca
Alternate Contact: Tim Forsyth  Tim.Forsyth@kitchener.ca

2008 Training Information

2008 CACDACFO Conference  -  2008 CACDACFO Conferencia Anual
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic/República Dominicana
December 3-6, 2008   
03 al 06 de Diciembre 2008
Conference Information/Información de la conferencia


Latest Published Hybrid Vehicle Safety Article by Extrication.Com
Title:  Hybrid Vehicle Rescue: Replacing Fear with Knowledge

This is a four part article explaining essentials you needed to know about hybrid vehicles. The first two segments explains what hybrids are and how to cope with them at an incident, including submersion. The third segment gives a generic explanation and methods for fighting hybrid vehicle fires. In the forth and final segment responders will learn how to handle spills and first aid for exposures to NiMH HV battery electrolyte.

Free Hybrid Vehicle  Carolina Fire Rescue EMS Journal Magazine Download

Download Part-I  Topic: General Hybrid Vehicle Information
Magazine: Carolina Fire Rescue EMS Journal; Volume 22, No 3, Winter 2008 Issue.
Starting Page:  Page 44


Download Part-2 Topic: General Hybrid Vehicle Information (continued from Part-1)
Published
by Carolina Fire Rescue EMS Journal; Summer Issue Volume 22, No 4, Spring 2008 Issue.
Starting Page:  Page

Download Part-3  Topic: Hybrid Vehicle Fires
Published
by Carolina Fire Rescue EMS Journal; Summer Issue Volume 23, No 1
Starting Page:  Page 9

To Be Announced: Part-4 (Fall issue 2008)  Topic:  Hybrid (HV Battery Electrolyte) Spills and First Aid
Published
by Carolina Fire Rescue EMS Journal 2008 Fall Issue Volume 23, No 2 Page 20; Articles are available as hard copy, and free PDF download from publishers website.

Publisher:
Carolina Fire Journal  www.carolinafirejournal.com
C
ontact Gwen Shuford, assistant editor.


ResQTec Distributor
Manufacturer's of Leading Heavy Rescue Tools and Lift Airbag Systems.

Extrication.Com
Authorize Distributor for Sales and Service
MA, RI, N.H., Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Virgin Islands/Caribbean

ResQTec
Finally there is a heavy rescue tool manufacturer that offers a tool system that will work with your existing hydraulic tools, and a limited lifetime warranty.  Regardless of the make, operating pressure or hydraulic fluid. No longer is there a need to replace entire system, simply buy the equipment you need.

UltimatePSI enables the tools to connect to a system of any working pressure, from 5,000 to 11,000 psi. Whatever pressure your current system operates, tools with UltimatePSI can be connected to them. This enables the necessary compatibility which is so important for the future of the industry!

Tired of costly routine service repairs, the entire line of ResQTec hydraulic tools come with a limited lifetime warranty! Simply maintain a service plan, as you would for any other manufacturer's tools, and your new ResQTec tools will be covered under the limited lifetime warranty.

Tool Demo: For a tool demo and/or quotation please give us a call, Extrication.Com is looking forward to working for you!

ResQTec Links
   Extrication.Com's Rescue Tool Page

  Request for GSA Member Pricing and Catalog
   ResQTec History
   Products

   
Tool demonstrations outside of Extrication.Com's area


Special Automotive Manufacturing Projects:
Vehicle Emergency Response Guides (ERGs)

Extrication.Com is available to provide contractual services to assist automobile manufacturers in compiling ERG's for innovative motor vehicles such as pure electric, hydrogen, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles. Prior examples of our work and references are available upon request. 

Extrication.Com has the experience you are looking for to assist your company/agency in providing the necessary information needed by emergency responders to safely mitigate a vehicle rescue (fire, spill, first aid and extrication) and at the same time reducing possible liability issues.

Extrication.Com has also assisted the automotive industry in testing & evaluating extrication techniques and live burn evolutions on innovative vehicles and their vehicle components.


New Technology (NT) Train the Trainer
We offer onsite a 24-hr and 40-hour New Technology "Train the Trainer" programs.  Our trainers will present the latest information on innovative vehicles, active and passive safety features, and extrication techniques.

Over the course of the program the trainers will develop a deliverable PowerPoint presentation as part of their class project. Each candidate will be responsible for a particular subject matter. The class project NT program can then be used by the trainers to train their own department.

This is a cost efficient method for developing a deliverable training program for you department. Your department trainers will have a living document that never becomes outdate and obsolete unlike most commercially available programs. We train your trainers to become subject matter experts for their department.  When the PowerPoint needs to be updated your trainers simply enter the new information.

Training Information: Ron Shaw: rshaw@extrication.com


Extrication.Com OEMS EMT CEUs

All our programs have been approved by the MA OEMS for total course hours for all levels of EMT/EMT-P. If you have taken an Extrication.Com course and would like to verify if you received your Continuous Education Unit (CEU) credit please use this the MA OEMS CEU search. If you find you didn't receive credit, be patient it may take up to two weeks or more for new data to be entered by the OEMS.

EMT Students outside of Massachusetts contact our office by email and we will provide you with an electronic copy of your OEMS course roosters to submit to your local OEMS office.


Copy Right Policy

Extrication.Com has published many safety articles and photos to help federal, state and municipal agencies educate emergency responders in motor vehicle rescue. However, this does not imply published material, including online publications are "public domain."

Permission is needed to reproduce any material unless so noted by Extrication.Com. Full credits must be included and text printed "as is" unless permission has been granted to alter the original text by Extrication.Com. At no time shall any image or text material be reproduced for commercial use and/or by parties not given written permission.

We are more than willing to corporate to help make vehicle rescue safer for the responder and their victims. 


Extrication.Com Company Contact Information

Telephone
 
508.747.0860

Postal address

 
Extrication.Com
19 Baldwin Circle
Plymouth, MA  02360
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電子メール rshaw@extrication.com

Staff Information
 
Technical Training Assistance
Ron Shaw
, Owner, Program Developer/Lead Instructor
Email: rshaw@extrication.com
Office: (508) 747-0860
 
Vendor Support
Betsy Lorusso
, Business Manager
Email: betsy@extrication.com
Office: (508) 747-0860

Rescue Equipment Sales and Service Manager
Craig Blake,
Sales and Service Manager/Technical Service Trainer
Email:
cblake@extrication.com
Cell: 508.942.0442

Instructors/Presenters
Ron Shaw rshaw@extrication.com
Craig Blake cblake@extrication.com
Frank Dealy fdealy@extrication.com
Terry Salvi tsalvi@extrication.com
Larry Boivin (DOD) Lboivin@extrication.com
Frank Miscia
Ted Helpin (Machinery)
Doug Shattuck (Machinery)
Kimberly Keegan
Mike Nash

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