Transfers ToNot transferableDescriptionThis course is designed to train paid or volunteer firefighters and emergency medical personnel in vertical and structural collapse rescue techniques. Students will learn about team organization, rescue, and environmental considerations; use of ropes, knots, rigging and pulley systems; descending, rappelling, and belaying tools and techniques; subsurface rescue techniques; use of cribbing, wedges, cutting/prying and hydraulic tools; use of fire service ladders in specialized rescue situations, and day and night rescue exercises. 