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 how to raise a single person to a high point in a rope rescue operation.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:

We need a better high point. Using the other end of the rope.  We’ve got a high point. We didn’t rig a whole bunch of fancy stuff. We’re going to take our lead hand.

We’re going to clip this to the end of our new high point.  Right, hold on.  Sir.

So, all I’m going to do, raise this guy up, as high as I can get him.  Hold right there.  Now I’m going to become the anchor.  Rigging an anchor is all about exploiting friction. Right now, I’ve got this rope running over those two 90-degree bends. Uh, for one person load, this is going to be full send.  I can now be our anchor.

Start hauling.  I’m barely feeling it. I’m a total lanyard man, I’m excited to go under what’s going to happen.  I’m going to extend hot dynamic plane here, now. A little bit higher? Yeah.