OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Oklahoma City firefighters with the Urban Search & Rescue team trained to rescue someone from a suspended car Tuesday at their training grounds off N. Portland Avenue to prepare for scenarios they said have increased across the U.S.
“This would kind of simulate a training where a semi-truck or a vehicle was over the side of the interstate or any elevated surface,” Maj. Owen Wiggins with the Oklahoma City Fire Department’s Urban Search and Rescue team said.
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While mostly rare, Wiggins said the increase across the U.S. and even dealing with a handful here in the city in the past has brought them to hold training as a refresher for their team. From five stories high, crews drop down with the Jaws of Life to a car hovering right around the first floor of their training tower.
“it adds like a completely different dynamic to the type of rescue,” Wiggins said…