High Angle / Rope Rescue
High Angle Rope Rescue is a specialized skill that utilizes life safety ropes and related equipment to reach victims, extricate them and bring them to safety.
High angle/ rope rescue is considered to be terrain that has a slope angle of 60 and higher. Rescuers are totally dependent upon the ropes
used to keep them and the victims from falling and to gain access to and egress from the rescue location.
Examples of high angle locations include:
- pipe racks
- ledges
- catwalks
- tops of vessels
- cranes
- water towers
Rope rescue is also needed below grade level in ship holds, barges, confined spaces, tunnels, sewer and piping systems. Good, competent technical rope rescue skills involving ropes, anchoring and belaying systems, lowering and hauling systems and litter/stretcher work are going to be mandatory for the safe performance of the rescue team.
Often the only way to safely reach a victim to render emergency care is for a rescuer to be lowered to their location via a rope. Similarly, rope rescue systems are also used to bring a victim to safety.
Rope rescue involves the use of specially designed equipment including static kern-mantle rope, anchoring and belaying devices, friction rappel devices and various other devices to utilize mechanical advantage for hauling systems.
Whether a rescue needs to be made 150 feet down an embankment or 20 feet into a confined space, Code Red Safety Rescue members receive advanced training in rope rescue operations.
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