Rope Rescue Tech – The Water Knot Rope Rescue Tech – The water knot is used to turn a flat webbing rope into a useable anchor point. Rope Rescue Tech – Start off with a overhand knot. Making sure to keep all the webbing as flat as possible. Rope Rescue Tech – Any kinks will degrade the knot of strength. Rope Rescue Tech – Take the opposite tail end and go into the perpendicular side of the knot itself. Rope Rescue Tech – Begin to trace opposite of the trail end. Rope Rescue Tech – Make sure to pull enough so both ends match at the end. Also keeping...

Rope Rescue Tech – The Square knot Rope Rescue Tech – The square knot looks very similar to the overhand knot, but the square knot has a particular look to it. Rope Rescue Tech – Take two loose ends and place the left side over the right side. Rope Rescue Tech – Then you will do the exact opposite, right side over left side. Rope Rescue Tech – It will have a distinctive look to it of two loops binding into each other. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this...

Rope Rescue Tech – The Munter Hitch Rope Rescue Tech – To tie a munter hitch we are going to start off in the middle of the line. Rope Rescue Tech – We are going to start off with two loops. One has the rope in front and the other will have the rope behind. Rope Rescue Tech – To create the munter hitch you are going to fold into itself like a book and attach a carabiner here. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post...

Rope Rescue Tech – The handcuff knot. Rope Rescue Tech – The handcuff knot will start off very similarly to the girth hitch knot. Rope Rescue Tech – Start out mid line and create two opposing loops, one with line in front and one with line behind. Rope Rescue Tech – Take the one with your line in front and stick it behind the one that is behind and move the two newly created pretzel loops in opposite directions. Rope Rescue Tech – The line in front goes backwards and the in back goes forwards. Rope Rescue Tech – The hands or ankles will go through the...

OTTAWA - It took high-angle rescue firefighters two hours to remove a 500-pound man from his Gatineau, Que., apartment early Tuesday morning. The call came in around 12:30 a.m., initially to paramedics, from a man who complained of back problems.  He was unable to get himself out of his fourth floor apartment.  Paramedics were unsuccessful as well and called in specialized firefighters to help. According to fire spokesman Guy Dagenais, high-angle rescue crews worked for two hours to get the man out of the building.  “We had to call in special equipment,” Dagenais said....

Rope Rescue Tech – The girth hitch knot. Rope Rescue Tech – The girth hitch is used to tie off small objects. Most commonly used form is for tying up horses, back in the wild west. Rope Rescue Tech – Start with a small loop on one end of the rope, go underneath the object you are trying to hitch. Rope Rescue Tech – Take the tail two ends and pull tight. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post...