Monday Night Training: Basic Ropes and Patient Packaging
 
January 23, 2023
 

Limerick Fire Department's Monday night training consisted of basic ropes, rigging, and patient packaging. Crews practiced knots and learned new ones. They practiced patient packaging in the stokes basket, the sked, and the half back. Lastly, crews worked on three to one rigging utilizing webbing, ropes, and carabineers, and using the apparatus wheels as anchor points. Also, during training, crews responded to a gas incident in the township.