In this firefighter rope rescue training video, instructor Derick Caloway of Elevated Safety and Harken Safety and Rescue and Tim Anderson of Anderson Rescue Solutions demonstrate the how to go over safety for a two-to-one progress, capture and drop loop system rope rescue operation.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:

We’re going to manage this and leave it up here. There is a knot in the bottom of this bag. Because once I go over, the weight of the rope might pull it out of the bag.

I’m getting ready to go down and get Billy Bob, who’s down at the bottom of the cliff. As you notice, one rope. Forty kilonewton of rope, two-person load device, lots of protection. So, we mitigated, like, cutting hazards and everything, you know, so we are using, like, a single rope technique here. If I wanted to just throw it ASAP on another line and had time to do it, I could.  We don’t always have that luxury.

What do we have on him right now? He’s on a clutch. Yep. So, what’s inside a clutch?  Pulley. Right. Makes it more ideal than, like, an I. D.  What’s our M. A. right now? Two-to-one. We’ve already got that on him. It’s going to work in our advantage. So again, instead of just sending the knot over or sending our rescuer over, we’ve sent him over on a two-to-one on a bike.

So, he repelled that way. That’s why I was keeping this rope, because we don’t want all the scent to go flying, and then we can use our ability to do it. That’s why we’re keeping the rope up here, keeping a hand on it so it doesn’t go.