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Joel Zehr, Newton Fire/EMS, Kansas
A.J. Venable, Leawood Fire Department, Kansas
Max: 25 participants in each block
*Prerequisites*
This training will include simple small machinery rescue and common passenger vehicle rescue. Basic fire protection, hazards associated with vehicle and machine rescue, scene stabilization, vehicle and machine stabilization, safety zones, basic tool kit and PPE for VMR to include hydraulics, hand tools, basic fire service tools and irons, air bags, chocks/cribbing and equipment. The objectives for this class are disentanglement, patient packaging, and transfer to EMS. Any combination of basic extrication, patient care and moving in the trauma environment that includes common passenger vehicles and small, simple machine rescue is acceptable.
Vehicle and Machinery Rescue will be a hands-on experience dealing with advanced level 2 materials. Prop availability will dictate exactly what gets covered and will be within one or more of the following areas: heavy vehicle, complex extrication processes, multiple uncommon concurrent hazards, heavy machinery, or more than digital entrapment of a victim. This course will not fulfill the NFPA Level 2 objectives for the VMR discipline in its entirety, but will in part for the time allotted. The goal of this session is to provide VMR advanced level hands-on training in material not often available.
Joel Zehr is a firefighter/paramedic who began his career in fire service in 1989. His experience includes Upstate N.Y., Reno County Kan. and Newton Fire/EMS. During the mid-90s, he received EMT and Paramedic certifications in Kansas. Returning to N.Y., he spent about a year with the fire service again and was a full-time paramedic in Syracuse, N.Y. Since his return to Kansas, he has been full time with the Newton Fire/EMS department for nearly 13 years. Joel has been very active with rescue in various disciplines since 1998 and involved with the development of state resources for technical and disaster rescue. He is currently a rescue technician for KSTF-5 and is an active fire instructor within the technical rescue disciplines in Kansas and nationwide.
A.J. Venable has been a firefighter at Leawood Fire Department for the last six years. He graduated from Prescott College in Arizona with a major in experiential education and a minor in emergency services. He has been a member of SAR teams in Arizona, Colorado, and Yosemite National Park. A.J. is trained and certified at the technician level in structural collapse, rope rescue and swift-water rescue. He has instructed rescue classes at the college and professional level, and has responded to several major incidents, including the Greensburg tornado and the Southeast Kansas flooding.
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