Technical Rescue Awareness

Confined Space Emergency Series
The role of the emergency responder during a confined space incident: A comprehensive, authoritative... read more

Rapid Intervention Teams
Training for fire fighters, industrial fire brigades, and others who may act as a member of a rapid ... read more

Ed Comeau
Ed is a technical writer and publisher of Campus Firewatch, a newsletter that focuses on campus fire safety. Previously he was chief fire investigator for the National Fire Protection Association where he conducted investigations of a number of major... more...

Mike McGroarty
Mike has been in the fire service since 1977, specializing since 1981 in technical heavy rescue. He was the founding president of Urban Search & Rescue, Inc. and teaches heavy rescue systems for the CA State Fire Marshal's Office. He is a member of m... more...

Mike Reimer
Mike is Vice President of Safety Solutions, Inc., a high performance industrial consulting firm. He is the developer of the HazMat Smart Strip chemical agent detector and a principal member of the NFPA Committee on Technical Rescue. A firefighter/par... more...

Chase Sargent
Chase Sargent recently retired from the Virginia Beach (VA) Fire and Rescue Dept. He served in the Special Operations Division and was responsible for specialty teams and response, as well as traditional response. He served as the HAZMAT/WMD, Technic... more...

Craig Shelley
Craig is the former chief of the of Rutland (VT) Fire Department and the former Chief of Marine Operations for the City of New York Fire Department (FDNY). He served as one of the battalion chiefs assigned to FDNY's special operations battalion and r... more...