Katoomba Station Vertical Rescue Demonstration

Katoomba Fire Station is a primary rescue station, this means that we respond to motor vehicle accidents (MVA), rail incidents, industrial/commercial accidents and vertical incidents. For vertical incidents, two of the skill sets required are Safe working at Heights and Vertical Rescue skills. Today we are demonstrating how to set up a rope based system to access, assess and extricate a casualty who has fallen over an edge.
Thank you very much to Anthea Hammon from Scenic World for allowing us to use their amazing facility to help showcase how we help the local and wider community.