In this firefighter elevator rope rescue training video, instructor Geoff Davis discusses how to bring a rescuer back up from a shaft during an elevator entrapment rescue.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:

After we lower the rescuer down and we package the patient however we’re going to package, what has to happen next?

Bring him back up.

Bring him back up. What did we talk about before? How are we going to do that?

Mechanical advantage three-to-one, right? 

Pop those two carabiners off.

Loop them around the rope.

Slowly lower them down to the rescuer.

Um, and they can either use a set of clips or if they have a rigging plate that they’re tied to. Attached to that, our three-to-one is already pre-tied and ready to go. That’s why we like this thing. 

Three feet of rope’s got to pass through his hands before one foot of lift. 

That’s why we like this thing, control devices. Hear them clicking? That’s capture in progress.

Can you see all that? Oh, this is awesome. Homeboy is deadweight. He’s not walking the wall.

Come on man.