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. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service

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. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service NFCC National Resilience

The teams weekly roundup- besides both a maintenance & training day, the TL’s have responded to 2- calls to assist South Central Ambulance Service & a full team mobilisation to assist Hampshire Police Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire Control Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service islandecho.co.uk/mans-body-foun…

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

Today’s team training was ‘Breaking & Breeching’ utilising multiple tools in both ‘clean’ & ‘dirty’ breech approaches. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service

🚨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. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service

🚨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. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service

Today’s Wednesday training was ‘lifting & moving’. The team had to complete a mini journey with a 250kg load using levers, rollers, bipod, & tripod. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service

Busy week for the team. A few calls for the TL’s, and a team exercise conducted on Wednesday. Thank you Basingstoke Fire Station 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. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service

After a 360-assessment was made in conjunction with an operational plan, the team began by ‘Breaking & Breeching’ a point of entry. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service

Entry was made where the 1st casualty was located and removed. The team then had to continue with a second breach point required. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service

Once through the second breach, a further casualty was located and removed from incident.Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service

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.Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service

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.Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service

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. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service

Some of the team have joined the wider UK ISAR for an exercise in Bristol focusing on an international flood capability team. Hampshire & IOW provide a ‘base of operations’ team. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service

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

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. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service

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. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service

🏆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 Hampshire & IOW USAR Team 📟-🇬🇧 team! 👏 Find out more about our USAR team 👉 bit.ly/3XSHSe9