When we discuss or train in the area of trench rescue operations, we often focus on complex equipment or difficult-to-interpret tabulated data regarding the dynamics of soil weights, soil pressures ...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Though people don’t often get trapped in trenches, construction workers are in them all the time, and trench walls caving in could be a life threatening situation.
When a trench collapse trapped two workers in Yarmouth, MA, firefighters launched a technical rescue operation. Scott Smith and Christopher Beal share lessons that fire departments can use to prepare ...