Inside LAFD: Confined Space Training From the Inside!

When someone needs rescuing from a space that has limited or restricted means of entry, it requires specialized skills and equipment. Your LAFD Urban Search and Rescue Task Force firefighters are certified in a number of technical rescues including Confined Space.
With this episode of InsideLAFD you don't just learn about the training they undergo, you get to go INSIDE the tunnel with them.

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[@lesliemarroquin2825]

Woah this is intense. Firefighters are forever heroes. My respect. ❤️

[@tonyclarke]

@lafd great video! it definitely shows the general public some of the what goes into a confined space rescue.

[@kellyj5389]

Is this a specialist job like Hazmat...My Dept..in Ohio we are all Hazmat techs and Confined space certified...just no special team per say. and all medics or advanced EMTs. the only specialized "team" is the dive team.

[@lafd]

We have Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces which, in addition to their firefighter positions, they respond to technical rescues like Trench, Cliff, Confined Space etc. Separately, we also have HazMat Task Forces which operate in the same way. The firefighters assigned to those stations must obtain all the required certifications. Anyone in the department is able to attend the courses (for example if they are on our FEMA task force they need certs for their specific type of position) but our entire department is not certified in technical rescue. It would be an impossible task with over 3500 sworn members. Oh...dive team. Yes, that is a specialty assignment in our marine division. Thanks for the question! We hope you'll be here for the watch party....12 minutes and counting :)

[@mikel9567]

I hope this was just their introduction. If they are seasoned firefighters, it was pretty bad. Especially their patient assessment. Fight like you train and train like you fight. No short cuts in training.

[@lafd]

This was their first iteration performing a CS operation. No one is perfect their first time. They debriefed, broke it down and did it all over again.

[@tonyclarke]

It doesn't really matter if it was their 100th time or their first time, its all about being better then the last time. I would actually be more questioning of the video if it had been perfect.

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