Mirrored Rope Rescue Systems

John lindstrom has been a fire service instructor since 1984.

Mirrored rope rescue systems.

He is a retired battalion chief currently serving as a firefighter school resource officer with the spring lake park blaine mounds view fire department mn. Mirrored systems basic principle. Living with high risk technologies. 06 nov 2019 17 41.

Share to twitter share to facebook share to pinterest. Edit tags history files print site tools options. This standard was upheld even though many rescue organizations outside of the fire service use tensioned belay lines or mirrored rope systems. The mpd incorporates a high efficiency pulley with an integral rope locking mechanism or ratchet for a haul system.

Rope rescue technical rescue. Each rope system must be fully capable and competent as both a mainline and a back up system at the same time. Newer post older post home. 2 while the generic definition of a 1 perrow charles.

Dual capability two tensioned rope system. A mirrored system is a rope rescue system in which each rope serves simultaneously as a lowering raising line as well as a competent back up to the other line. Mirrored systems is one of the more recent technical rescue approaches to be introduced to the rope rescue community. The purpose of this study was to examine a mirrored system under certain operational conditions in order to better assess the overall system performance and qualities.

Olympic mountain rescue is using the cmc rescue mpd multi purpose device as part of their mirrored system in the snow for a low angle practice evacuation. This is the reason our team has chosen to employ the mirrored rope system method of rigging and operating our rope rescue systems. Still the merit of a two tensioned rope system is worth a closer look no longer can that s they way we have always done it justify ignoring evidence. Winter alpine two tensioned rope system.