The Daviess County Fire Department has a technical rope rescue team to safely extract patients from difficult, hard-to-reach situations. Typically, they respond to industrial settings. However, due to mutual aid agreements with surrounding counties, the team…
Technical Rope Rescue Training
Local first responders participate in a technical rescue exercise at the Owensboro-Daviess County Regional Airport. Firefighters utilized ropes to reach a second story window in the training tower, before dropping down into a confined manhole to…
High Angle Rope Rescue Training
The Daviess County Fire Department participates in a joint training with the Henderson Fire Department. High Angle Rope Rescue involves terrain with a slope of 60 degrees or greater. In these scenarios, firefighters rely entirely on…
