In this elevator rope rescue training video, instructor Chris Smity discusses rope rescue equipment setup and safety when rescuing people trapped in an elevator during a Twisted Industries’ Carolina Fire Days training event.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:

We got head pins and leg pins. Head pins  are bigger in diameter. They only go in the head. It’s rated 32,000 pounds. Leg pins, 18,000.

There’s four numbers you kind of need to know with this. It’s 15, 30, 45 and 60, zero to 15. And this will keep adding 15 to it.

In this configuration, we put this inner leg on the top.  So it can slide through this head here. And we can create this ram’s head  to touch against the wall there. Any other time we build this tripod, we’re trying to put those inners low, so there’s no chance of it getting out of our reach to adjust. This is the only time we do that. 

So from here, our goal is to have this thing centered as much as we can on the door,  with this head up against the wall.

We’ve got these great legs. It’s going to transfer the weight down to the floor. You’ve got the ram’s head there that’s going to keep this thing from collapsing into the elevator shaft.  When we put descent control devices in here,  that’s an anchor.  That’s our anchor. So it’s an anchor frame. When we’re going down in a hole,  anytime we can get an anchor, or our anchors above this, we win.

We’re taking civilians out elevator. So we’re trying to make this transition as easy as possible.