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 retrieve a single person load in a rope rescue.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:

If, for some reason, he was, by himself, was going to start this. You’d want to tie off the end of the rope to the bag, maybe wedge the bag around something so that if it does start moving, the topside still has that end. So, we’re just going to add a change of direction here for the haul. And he is a single person load.

What else does the clutch already give us? Progress. Progress capture, right. Small party stuff is all about impromptu, you know, with small people and making it happen. So, if I put a couple dudes on this pulling is that going to be enough? Let’s find out. Let’s find out. Alright. Pulling! Yeah, more of that.

It’s slippery. Oh yeah. That’s the problem. Here. Too late. Here we go. That’s alright. Now we’ve got a couple balls under here. Alright, let’s stop right there. It’s called a cross loop. That’s the loop, and we dropped it. Alright. Alright. Can you explain that again? So, this is the loop, okay? We dropped it. We dropped it.

If you have a two-person load or something and need more EMA, you can quickly build a little three-to-one here or whatever transition, especially if he’s injured or something like that. We’re going to need to get some more height to help clear that.