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Glass Management Bonded Windscreen's In modern car construction windscreen's are usually made from laminated glass that is bonded by strong adhesives on to the cars body, this gives the car additional strength. This is good if you are involved in a collision. However this dose pose a problem for rescue crews when it comes to glass management, at Cranleigh we practice the removal of windscreen's when ever possible, this allows us to be professional and efficient at an incident. |
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Glass Management Toughened Glass In this case crews are perfecting removal of toughened glass this may look easy but there is a knack to getting the glass out without the fragments showering the causality or rescuers. |
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Inter Agency Working To add realism to our training we try to involve other services to our drills, in this case we are carrying out an extrication of an injured causality from a vehicle with the help of St John ambulance. This type of training is great for the crews as we can see the jobs that organizations like Surrey Ambulance, the police and St Johns and the significance that there role plays in the overall scheme of events. This allows us to think ahead and get things ready, to aid simultaneous activities to take place. |
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Stabilization Here you can see that crews are perfecting there stabilization technics, this is vitally important when we are trying to protect the causality from any further spinal injury that would occur by any movement. So we use different configurations of blocks and wedges to achieve this. |
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RTC Exercise After a lot of organization, we managed to run a relatively small exercise replicating a run of the mill collision between 2 cars and a van, we were lucky that we could use a disused country lane and we were able to invite, Surrey Police, Ambulance, St John Ambulance, Casualty Union, with the help and experience of a BASIC doctor and his team from the Royal Surrey County Hospital to add realism to the exercise. and we even had a mini bus full of sea cadets. The exercise started at 7:30pm and it soon got dark, this made the working cont ions more difficult. |
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All the casualties were extricated in good time and some good learning points were gleamed from the experience. |
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Exercise Dormitory
Crews entering smoke filled sleeping quaters 
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To enable crews to be able to cope and act in professional manor,as well as testing the resources of the brigade, both in pumping appliances and command and control it is not uncommon for large exercises to be set up and run at known risks or buildings. In October crews from Cranleigh with help from Haslmere fire station, set up a realistic training at Cranleigh School. The fire & rescue service had been planning this exercise for a long time and it was to coincide with the school holiday, Teams of volunteers from local groups acted as casualties from walking wounded to those with more life threatening injuries, caused by the effects of smoke and the evacuation. The exercise kicked off at 19:45hrs with 2 pumps from Cranleigh attending a fire alarm, as you do! On arrival the crews were confronted with a known risk to us, a large building of 3 and 4 floors used as a school with smoke issuing from the top floor and the roof, |
Incident Command in use
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Exercise Dormitory On the warm night of October 27th 2005 Surrey Fire & rescue Service were alerted to a fire at Cranleigh School 2 Pumps from Cranleigh and 1 from Dunsfold raced to the incident as this was persons reported. On arrival Cranleigh appliance made pumps 8 and requested an aerial ladder platform that was sent from Chertsey at the same time Godalming and Haslemeres appliances were mobilised. An informative message was sent "Multiple casualties confirmed" a further informative was sent "A building of 4 floors 140m x 40m used as boarding school, fire on first floor, Offensive mode!" Sectors were set up and breathing apparatus teams entered as pupils and staff were evacuating, Crews had to negotiate the long corridors and windy stairwells, full of casualties both conscious and unconscious to get to the seat of the fire. The fire was seated in a study areas set into the roof space, on entering the roof space they were confronted with a rabbit warren of rooms and near zero visibility. Hose management was a real problem, meanwhile the Arial ladder platform was setting it self up to gain access to the roof of the school. After roll calls it was determined that 43 people were unaccounted for and needed rescuing. Whole time crews worked alongside Retained crews and Variable crewing Eventually a stop went back as it was getting late! "A building of 4 floors 140m x 40m used as boarding school, fire in first and second floor persons reported 43 persons accounted for 2 apparently dead, 13 B.A 2 Jets all appliances delayed making up gear" The exercise was a great success, with crews working well and getting stuck in, the exercise was intended to test brigade procedures at one of Surrey's major risks, the exercise will have identified shortfalls in operational procedures, these will be discussed at the debrief to be held at a later date. The exercise was set up by Kevin Dann (Variable Crewing Haslemere) & Trevor Coldman (Cranleigh), Carl Penny organized the St John & Surrey Ambulance provided 10 ambulances, a control vehicle, and an air shelter, as well as the trauma team and led by Kelvin Wright consultant BASICS doctor from the Royal Surrey County Hospital Guildford who attended in all there glory, also to add some realistic to the incident Surrey police attended as there was potential for a crime scene. Although there were a lot of points brought to light after the exercise it was deemed to be a great success where different agencies worked together well. |
2 B.A entering the building
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Inside crews used guide lines to help them search and find there
way out.
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