VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — For 26 years, the Virginia Beach Fire Department has been training first responders from across the nation on skills and techniques in structural collapse operations.
“There’s three main disciplines that are movement, shoring, breaking, a breaching,” said Jon Rigolo, of the Virginia Task Force 2 Urban Search and Rescue team and the leader of the structural collapse class.
He, along with 40 instructors, are training first responders from across the nation in lifesaving skills when responding to disasters…