Hampshire & IOW USAR Team 📟-🇬🇧

🏆Our Urban Search and Rescue Team picked up the Heavy Rescue of the Year prize at the Global Search and Rescue Excellence Awards earlier this month in London. Congratulations to the @HantsIOW_USAR team! 👏 Find out more about our USAR team 👉 bit.ly/3XSHSe9

3/3 the last exercise was to locate and recover a casualty from the engine room and build a recovery system to the deck of the ship. @HantsIOW_fire

2/3 the team had to identify the full risks on board and build an operational plan that would enable the safe recovery of casualties in direct/difficult environments. @HantsIOW_fire

1/3 Today’s Wednesday training was surrounding our confined-space capability. We had the honour of using SS @Shieldhall which is part of the national historic fleet. 2 exercises were conducted within the ships ballast tanks & engine gantry.

Some of the team have joined the wider @UK_ISAR_TEAM for an exercise in Bristol focusing on an international flood capability team. Hampshire & IOW provide a ‘base of operations’ team. @HantsIOW_fire

This past weeks round up. 2 x thatch roof fires where our TL’s went for structural assessment, 1 x Bariatric rescue where we assisted in shoring operations, and Wednesday training that was focused on SWAH/LACE skills. @HantsIOW_fire

Finally, the last casualty was located on the other side of a debris filled walkway where the team used the final rescue as a medical drill being assessed by a in-service IEC (Immediate Emergency Care) instructor.@HantsIOW_fire

After another breach the team worked they way through a corridor where they were faced with a vertical tunnel. A tripod was constructed to allow access for the team.@HantsIOW_fire

Once through the second breach, a further casualty was located and removed from incident.@HantsIOW_fire

Entry was made where the 1st casualty was located and removed. The team then had to continue with a second breach point required. @HantsIOW_fire

After a 360-assessment was made in conjunction with an operational plan, the team began by ‘Breaking & Breeching’ a point of entry. @HantsIOW_fire

Busy week for the team. A few calls for the TL’s, and a team exercise conducted on Wednesday. Thank you @Basingstoke_01 for accommodating us! The scenario was a building collapse of a complex structure where we first tested our mobilisation of assets and a Tac-Ad. @HantsIOW_fire

Today’s Wednesday training was ‘lifting & moving’. The team had to complete a mini journey with a 250kg load using levers, rollers, bipod, & tripod. @HantsIOW_fire

🚨call-out 23/2/25 @ 03:39. The team were called to a devastating fire that damaged a 17th century building in Romsey. We provided structural monitoring during operations and fed back our results to the incident commander. @HantsIOW_fire

🚨Week overview:maintenance was conducted on our modules ready for a Babcock service, the weekly training session which covered metal shoring, and 2 team call-outs. 1 call was to assist in a fire in a cavity wall where the team cored holes to identify fire spread. @HantsIOW_fire

Today’s team training was ‘Breaking & Breeching’ utilising multiple tools in both ‘clean’ & ‘dirty’ breech approaches. @HantsIOW_fire

🚨PAGER ALERT📟🚨 A Team Leader and members of the team are mobile to assist with an agricultural fire in Totton with our Manitou telehandler.

The teams weekly roundup- besides both a maintenance & training day, the TL’s have responded to 2- calls to assist @SCAS999 & a full team mobilisation to assist @HantsPolice @hiwfrs_control @HantsIOW_fire islandecho.co.uk/mans-body-foun…

Today team members concentrated on specialisations in the form of ‘hot cutting’. This skill is employed to create a safe scene of operations by removing identifiable risks. @HantsIOW_fire @FireResilience

Todays training session was a skills session in timber shoring. Shoring is the provision of temporary support to damaged buildings or structures, and is the last resort under our hazard mitigation process. @HantsIOW_fire