Knowing the availability of aerial appuratus in your
neighborhood, say a snorkel and Ladder truck , making your foremen
take first responder coures { which are not that long and con-
sist of assisting on ambulance calls }, would be a start .
A 200 ft fir in a residential neighborhood is not common
throughout the USA , A 75 ft to 100 ft OAK or POPLAR or
White Pine is , and I have pictures of a Fire Co. retrieving
a man pinned in a dead Oak , by a lead he cut , and he was tied
in twice , they put a 110 ft aerial ladder up and it took
time to get the man out of the situation he created for himself.
The climbers knees were blown out . Entrapment in a tree
is as dangerous as bleeding and electricution . If a climber
tried to rescue this man he would have had a heck of a time.
At a County fire training center , a plan to get the
local EMS and Fire Stations aware of all the climbers in
Suburbs , and the hieghts that they are performing thier
work in was submitted by some local EMS people . The training
has to come on thier part also , remember all Rescue
people train about every situation possible , except one.
Until both the tree industry and EMS and Fire stations
get on some kind of page together we will remain in the
caves , crossing our fingers that were doing it right .
Question: In Oakland at the National Jamboree in 1992
when the Aerial Rescuer got hurt when his Prusik failed ,
and the man hit the tree limb, why was thier such a hury to get
him down ?
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