Extrication.Com
19 Baldwin Circle
Plymouth, MA  02360
-USA-

Extrication.Com provides emergency responders worldwide with the latest information and training for motor vehicle rescue. We welcome inquiries from all emergency responders and related agencies:

•     Fire services
•     Police and law enforcement agencies
•     Emergency medical services (EMS)
•     Tow operators
•     U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
•     U.S. Homeland Defense Agencies
•     Automotive manufacturing companies
•     Automotive Component Companies

Please take a moment to browse through our website, if you have any questions about motor vehicle extrication or our training programs feel free to contact us. We are always willing to answer a question and offer advice or work with you to develop a quote for training for training needs.

Company Mission

Extrication.Com is dedicated to the specialty field of motor vehicle extrication providing emergency responders with the latest training and safety information necessary to safely mitigate a motor vehicle rescue.

Extrication.Com has become one of the leading contenders in the field of extrication providing training, program development and other related contractual services for the fire, police, EMS, U.S. Department of Defense and companies within the automobile industry.

Our Company Training Philosophy

Extrication.Com's principals and techniques are based on minimum manpower, simplicity, team concept enabling the responders to develop the most efficient means possible to safely mitigate a vehicle rescue. Never do we teach that there is only one way to do things. We strive to reduce your overall extrication time without compromising safety or patient care.

Company Profile

Ron Shaw, is the founder of Extrication.Com and primary company lead instructor holding state and national certifications as a fire service
instructor having an expertise in motor vehicle extrication.

Extrication.Com  safety articles written by Ron Shaw have been published by Firehouse Magazine, Fire Engineering, Galls, Voice, OSFM and other emergency service related publications and online periodicals. Ron Shaw is currently compiling an official Extrication.Com basic skills textbook for Jones & Bartlett Publishers due to be published in 2007.

All assisting instructors hold certifications as fire service instructors and are the best supporting adjunct instructors in the industry. Extrication.Com instructors are not just hired help. They are alumni of our 40-hour extrication programs. Our instructor curriculum philosophy is simple; you can't teach what you don't know yourself. Guest speakers/trainers have an expertise in specific areas of training and help enhance the quality of our programs.

Extrication.Com has taught vehicle extrication at the basic, intermediate and advanced training skills to emergency responders from four continents and in the United States coast to coast and border to border. All Extrication.Com programs meet NFPA Standards in part,  in whole or exceed the recommendations for FF II, 1006 and 1670 recommendations pertaining to motor vehicle extrication curriculum. Each Extrication.Com program receives full emergency medical technician (basic, intermediate and paramedic) credit hours as sanctioned by the MA OEMS. 

Our client agencies are unique, so are our programs that can be specifically tailored to fit the individual needs of the agencies that we serve. Some agencies have specific and unusual training needs not normally seen in the fire service, we can adjust to conform to those needs. Extrication.Com is at home working with fire, law enforcement, military and private agencies throughout the world. Our company has no geographical boundaries, we welcome the opportunity to work with you.

When considering training consultants; Extrication.Com leads the way in extrication training by doing our own research and development while others copy, move out of our way and follow by our example. For years responders have been taught to make time consuming tasks that may not be necessary and will increase the total overall time to complete their mission during a rescue.

Extrication.Com has taught responders to lower the national average time to displace a dash from 16-30 minutes down to a remarkable 4-6 minutes or less. Our techniques are fast being adopted around the world by the emergency services, including the military specialty groups. In 1999 Extrication.Com developed the extrication technique know as the "Modified Dash Roll ©" to cope with active side impact protection, vehicle under/over rides and rapid intervention for crash vehicles with a dashboard entrapment. Since then we have also developed other techniques that can be use for space making while avoiding active SIPS  components.

Among the company's accomplishments are being able to work with one of the world's leading automobile manufacturers assisting in the development of emergency response guide lines for innovative automobiles such as hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

On the day of "9-11" Extrication.Com started working with elite members from U.S. Department of Defense. We have a very unique working relationship and can develop specific training programs to assist DOD clients with special needs. We are the leaders in vehicle extrication training, we do our own research, and develop rescue techniques to match today's technology.

Extrication.Com can Help!

Extrication.Com offers the most informative classroom presentations available at three skills levels; basic, intermediate and advanced. Our skills levels are based on the following criteria:

1. Basic Skills: Designed for the entry level responder with no prior extrication experience, working with practical evolutions having a minimal degree of risk for passenger vehicles. No prerequisite required at this level of training. Open enrollments are available to police, fire, EMS, DOD and tow personnel.
    

2. Intermediate Skills: Responders who are proficient at  basic extrication skills, working with practical evolutions having an moderate degree of risk and complexity; vehicles inverted, on their side, under/over rides requiring more advanced stabilizing techniques. The cognitive and enabling objectives of these programs are beyond basic skills level of training required for entry level responder; including alternative techniques such as the Modified Dash Roll for passenger and other types of motor vehicles.
    

3. Advanced Skills: responders who are proficient at basic & intermediate extrication skills, working with practical evolutions having the highest degree of risk and complexity for passenger, medium & heavy duty trucks, buses, heavy machinery and other specialty vehicles.

Extrication.Com's practical advanced training scenarios are unique, often copied, but never really emulated. We don't just cut up prop vehicles for our practical sessions we utilize them to replicate surrealistic evolutions that you may encounter in the field.

Extrication.Com teaches you about the vehicle: hazards, passive safety features, construction, typical stress points. With today's innovative vehicles we stress how to read the wreck using a quick visual scanning technique, properly stabilize, immobilize and disable the vehicles as required.

In our more advanced programs we try to emulate surrealistic scenarios that cause the student to  think beyond the entry skills level of training and work together as a well organized team. The complexity of our advanced programs are based on the local logistics available and overall student skills ability for that class. Our advanced students will be using all of their prior training skills to safely mitigate the relevant rescue scenarios not available to the basic skills program. Extrication.Com training programs meet or exceed nationally accepted extrication training curriculum for the desired skills level. The training also focuses on relevant techniques and procedures not currently included in recommendations for passenger vehicles, heavy trucks and bus extrication. We don't just cutting up the prop vehicles, this is not realistic extrication training.

If your agency is looking for quality training with the best available instructors providing you with classroom and practical sessions second to none, we can help! We promise that when you walk away the end of practical training session, besides being tired, you'll be given a wealth of useful information and techniques that are relevant.

If you sign up for our hands-on classes you should be in good health and expect to be tired at the end of the day.  Everyone is equal in our program. While we respect rank, it is felt that a good officer can't know the limitations of their personnel unless they too have walked in their shoes.

Those that want to take still photos may do so at the end of the practical session. We will allow staged photo sessions at the end of the practical for those that would like to take pictures. This is a liability issue and we do not want distractions while working with unforgiving heavy rescue tools and equipment.

After completing our training programs followed by Extrication.Com's recommendations, your agency should be able to significantly reduce it's average overall vehicle extrication timed baseline to mitigate a rescue. We can assist your agency in establishing an on-going training program and/or departmental SOPs and/or SOGs for modern vehicle rescue.

Latest Published Hybrid Vehicle Safety Article by Extrication.Com
Title:  Hybrid Vehicle Rescue: Replacing Fear with Knowledge Part-I (click for free magazine download)
Magazine: Carolina Fire Rescue EMS Journal; Volume 22, No 3, Winter 2008 Issue.
Series: 4-Parts beginning with : Winter - Part-I;  Spring - Part-II;  Summer - Part III;  Fall Part-IV
Availability: Magazine is available as hard copy, and free PDF download from publishers website.
Publisher: Carolina Fire Journal:  www.carolinafirejournal.com

Next Open Enrollment Training Program

Annual Greater Toronto
40-hour Basic-Intermediate-Advanced Extrication Program
Thornhill Towing
September 22nd - 26th, 2008 

Extrication.Com started off its 2008 spring calendar with (2) back to back programs in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and will end the season in Toronto, ONT Canada.

Any responder (fire, police, EMS, DOD, or tow personnel) are invited. All proceeds are to benefit the local rescue squad. 

Toronto 40-hour 2008 Extrication Program Outline

Special Automotive Manufacturing Projects:
Vehicle Emergency Response Guide (ERG)

Extrication.Com is available to provide contractual services to assist automobile manufacturers in compiling ERG's for innovative motor vehicles such as pure electric, hydrogen, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles. Prior examples of our work and references are available upon request. 

Extrication.Com has the experience you are looking for to assist your company/agency in providing the necessary information needed by emergency responders to safely mitigate a vehicle rescue (fire, spill, first aid and extrication) and at the same time reducing possible liability issues.

Extrication.Com has also assisted the automotive industry in testing & evaluating extrication techniques and live burn evolutions on innovative vehicles and their vehicle components.

Training for 2008

2008 Training Program Schedule Enter Here

"Open enrollment" programs are available to all emergency responders (fire, police, EMS, DOD, Homeland Defense and tow personnel) and candidates in training. EMTs/Paramedics will earn full CEUs through the MA OEMS for attending all Extrication.Com programs.

Progressive Training

All Extrication.Com training programs are taught progressively according to skills levels. Within a skills level attendees start with the simplest evolutions and progress to more complex and higher risk evolutions for that level.

A common question asked; "Can we attend only the only the advanced segments to your 40-hour program?" The answer would be no. The only exception would be if a prior student completed both basic and intermediate skills levels with Extrication.Com.

In our 40-hour program attendees must attend all skills levels prior to advancing to the next without exception, regardless of prior experience or training. You may not take only the advanced skills levels in this program.

Once a responder completes this program they may further their learning skills with more advanced programs for heavy farm/construction equipment and machinery and tow operators.

For responders interested in rescue technician qualifications our programs will meet NFPA Standards for Fire Fighter II pertaining to vehicle extrication at the appropriate skills level (awareness, operational) the 40-hour program exceeds this level. For responders desiring to meet NFPA Standards 1006 and 1670 for pertaining to vehicle and machinery extrication disciplines Extrication.Com has expanded our program offerings to include heavy machinery extrication. 

There are no requisites, this program is designed for those attending at the entry level or seasoned responder desiring to learn more.

Interested in hosting a Extrication.Com training program contact us at:

Training Information:

Ron Shaw: rshaw@extrication.com

Extrication.Com OEMS EMT CEUs

All our programs have been approved by the MA OEMS for total course hours for all levels of EMT/EMT-P. If you have taken an Extrication.Com course and would like to verify if you received your Continuous Education Unit (CEU) credit please use this the MA OEMS CEU search. If you find you didn't receive credit, be patient it may take up to two weeks or more for new data to be entered by the OEMS.

EMT Students outside of Massachusetts contact our office by email and we will provide you with an electronic copy of your OEMS course roosters to submit to your local OEMS office.

Currently all Extrication.Com programs are accredited by the MA OEMS. We would like to know if your agency would be influenced if our programs were also nationally approved by CECBEMS. And, due to the CECBEMS fee structure (http://www.cecbems.com/applications/docs/fees.pdf) would your agency be willing to pay a higher fee in order to provide that service?

We are contemplating using CECBEMS service and would like your feedback by email: Extrication.Com CECBEMS Approval

Copy Right Policy

Extrication.Com has published many safety articles and photos to help federal, state and municipal agencies educate emergency responders in motor vehicle rescue. However, this does not imply published material, including online publications are "public domain."

Permission is needed to reproduce any material unless so noted by Extrication.Com. Full credits must be included and text printed "as is" unless permission has been granted to alter the original text by Extrication.Com. At no time shall any image or text material be reproduced for commercial use and/or by parties not given written permission.

We are more than willing to corporate to help make vehicle rescue safer for the responder and their victims. 

Extrication.Com Company Contact Information

Telephone
 

508.747.0860

 

Postal address
 

Extrication.Com, LLC
19 Baldwin Circle
Plymouth, MA  02360
            -USA-

 

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電子メール rshaw@extrication.com

Electronic mail

General information, sales and customer support:

Ms. Betsy Lorusso

Email: info@extrication.com

 

Technical and training assistance: Ron Shaw, Developer/Lead Instructor for all programs:

Email: rshaw@extrication.com

Website
         http://www.extrication.com

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