David Rhodes, Scott Brantley, and company discuss using an aerial ladder to construct a simple system for lowering a victim to the ground.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 10 min
David Rhodes
Chief (Ret.)
Education Director, FDIC/Editor in Chief, Fire Engineering
David Rhodes is a 37-year fire service veteran who retired after spending his last 17 years as a battalion chief with the Atlanta (GA) Fire Department. He is a Chief Elder for the Georgia Smoke Diver Program and has been a member of the FDIC Educational Advisory Board, a Hands-on-Training coordinator for the FDIC conference, an editorial advisor and author for Fire Engineering and Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment, author of the “Hump Day SOS” column in Fire Rescue, an adjunct instructor for the Georgia Fire Academy, an Advisory Board Member for Underwriters Laboratories Firefighter Safety Research Institute, and a Board Member of the Firefighter Air Coalition. He served as an incident commander for the Georgia Emergency Management Agency – Type III All Hazards Incident Management Team and was a task force leader for the Georgia Search and Rescue Team.
Courses By David Rhodes
Atlanta (GA) BC David Rhodes is at the Guardian Centers in Georgia for a training scenario on collapse rescue. Rhodes and Scott Brantley discuss rescuing two victims from a car that is hanging from a damaged parking deck.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 15 min
David Rhodes is at the Guardian Centers once again, and reviews some basic considerations for responding to a commuter rail emergency.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 6
Dave Rhodes and company demonstrate finding and making contact with a patient trapped underneath a concrete collapse.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 10 min
David Rhodes, Jamey Brads, and company demonstrate removing a victim with a lower extremity injury from a collapse scenario.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 10 min
Chief David Rhodes and company demonstrate a rapid, "down and dirty" method for lifting a concrete slab.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 15 min
In this tech rescue video, David Rhodes and Jamey Brads review using a petrogen torch to cut a steel beam in order to remove a trapped victim.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 15 min
Drawing on lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina, David Rhodes and company demonstrate two potential rescue scenarios from flood situations.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 15 min
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