Paratech Highway VSK Strut Kit In-Service Training
Low temps and freezing rain didn’t stop Union Firefighters from training on our new Paratech VSK Strut Kit. This kit offers us many uses, including ability to stabilize overturned vehicles and structurally comprimised buildings. The vertical load limit on a single strut is over 80,000lbs (40 tons).
A very special thank you to Mike Meldrum from Fire Rescue Products for leading our training and instructing our firefighters on proper and safe use of our new Kit.
Mike Meldrum of Fire Rescue Products Instructs our Group of Firefighters on proper use of our new Strut Equipment
Instructor Mike Assists Firefighter Welz in anchoring the base of the strut to the overturned vehicle
Squad 5 will be equipped with the strut kit. The new kit is shown here laid out on a tarp next to Squad 5
Squad 5 is also equipped with portable scene lights, shown here illuminating the undercarraige of an overturned vehicle
Union 9-2's Suburban also helping with scene lighting
Union Firefighters dont just train in fair weather. In fact the night of this training, outside temps were in the low 20's with a significant wind/ wind chill
Firefighters practice on a vehicle overturned on its side, before practicing on a completely overturned vehicle
The Entire VSK kit deployed on the training vehicle. the strut kit offers stability to extricate occupants of the vehicle.
