Rescue / Home Office, Scottish Home Department.

  • Great Britain. Home Office.
Date:
1960
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rescue / Home Office, Scottish Home Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Contents ADDN PWN 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 pI: 23 24 Z 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Part I. General Organisation and functions of the Rescue Section . Duties and responsibilities of officers Duties and responsibilities of party leaders First aid in rescue operations Personal, party and platoon manpack equipment Types of damage from modern air attack Damage to public services . Part II. Rescue techniques The elements of building construction . Manpack equipment—Improvisation Some uses of the wire bond. Casualty handling in rescue a enione= iG ends Fibre ropes Knots and lashings } Principles of levering and jacking. Propping, strutting and improvised supports . Ladders for rescue work—short extension ladder Rescue from basements Rescue by debris clearance . Access to voids; linking of voids; the debi cr ere Pickets and holdfasts . Improvised derricks and sheer ie Rescue from heights Hauling and lifting equipment Hydraulic power equipment Temporary shoring Steel wire ropes . Slings Portable fobaliswing, Flame cutting Part III. Operations Briefing : The rescue pista gee of rescue Vv Page ~—] W = 12 14 16 24 28 41 44 50 70 86 91 100 103 108 112 117 120 126 135 143 152 162 175 185 187 190 192 206 2k