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Size-up, airbags and inflators, hybrids and EVs, cribbing, hydraulic tools, glass, door and roof evolutions, the dash roll and patient removal. Every topic gets its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 67 illustrated pages.
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 9 parts and 63 topics.
You're kneeling next to a sedan on its wheels after a T-bone, cribbing in your hands. Your captain asks: which movements have you stopped, and which ones are still loose?
You read it in the manual. Paragraphs on horizontal, vertical and rotational movement, written like a contract. You read them after a 24-hour shift, and by morning the words were gone.
In this book, stabilization is one page: the car drawn in the middle, six arrows for forward-back, side to side, up-down, roll, pitch and yaw, and what stops each one before anyone goes inside.
The rest works the same way. The inner and outer circle survey, stand-off distances from undeployed airbags, box cribbing, the car on its roof, the dash roll relief cut: each one has its own page.
You see the page and you know the move. On the drill ground you set up your stabilization without going back to the manual.
The scene, hazards inside the vehicle, stabilization, tools, glass and access, door and roof evolutions, dash and patient removal, heavy vehicles and machinery, and a final review: 67 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
It's training night, there's a car on its roof, and the lieutenant points at you: Plan A and Plan B, out loud, before the first cut.
In the book you open the page on choosing the plan and see it drawn: space first, open the car, not the patient, with Plan A and Plan B side by side.
Tempered vs laminated glass, the hydraulic tool family, the dash roll relief cut, the vehicle on its side, the air brakes and saddle tanks on a truck: same thing, each one on its own page.
Vehicle Extrication Illustrated is 9 parts and 63 topics, all drawn, and it ends with a review: the whole evolution on one page, the most common skill sheet mistakes and a night-before checklist.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
The six-step extrication order, Level I vs Level II, apparatus blocking, the inner and outer circle survey, the size-up report, scene zones and PPE.
Fuel and fluids, the 12-volt battery, airbags and stand-off distances, inflators and pretensioners, hybrids, EVs, boron steel and emergency response guides.
The goal of stabilization, quick wins, cribbing sizes, box cribbing, the car on its wheels, side and roof, and struts, straps and lifting bags.
The hydraulic tool family, power units and battery tools, spreader, cutter, rams, hand tools and tool staging.
Tempered vs laminated glass, glass management, windshield, rear and sunroof glass, try before you pry and the interior rescuer.
Choosing the plan, vertical crush, door removal from latch and hinge side, side removal, third door, full roof removal, roof flap and the roof as a door.
The dash roll, dash lift, pedal and seat displacement, packaging, the removal path and the hand-off to EMS.
What changes with commercial vehicles and buses, machinery entrapment and agricultural and industrial equipment.
The whole evolution on one page, the most common skill sheet mistakes, the hybrid and EV quick check, the numbers and terms and your night-before checklist.
At the end of the book: A final review part: the whole evolution on one page, the most common skill sheet mistakes, a hybrid and EV quick check and the numbers and terms to know.
Test yourself on size-up, stabilization, tools and cuts the way the written exam asks, and see in one line why each answer is right.
Every evolution on a single card, in the same order as the book, to review between shifts or keep printed on the rig.
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Each class topic has its own page, in the same order you'll work a scene. You review it between shifts in a few minutes.
Stabilization, glass, tools and cuts in the order the written test and the skill sheets ask for them, plus a practice test with every answer explained.
An update on the cars you cut today: advanced steel, curtain airbags, hybrids and EVs. And a page you can put in front of your crew on training night.
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Yes. It's for firefighters preparing for Vehicle and Machinery Rescue at Operations or Technician level, and for anyone certified years ago who wants to catch up on today's cars. It doesn't replace your course manual: it takes each topic and puts it on one drawn page, in the order you work a scene, so you can review it in a few minutes after shift. It assumes you know the job.
From the vehicle and machinery rescue requirements in NFPA 1006 (Level I and Level II) and NFPA 2500, and from the skill sheets state fire training agencies use. State VMR certifications accredited by IFSAC or the Pro Board are built on NFPA 1006, so the topics match; if your state's skill sheet words or orders a step differently, follow your state's sheet. Today's cars have their own pages: boron steel, curtain airbags, inflators and pretensioners, hybrids and EVs, always pointing you to the manufacturer's emergency response guide.
No. It's independent study material, not affiliated with or endorsed by NFPA, IFSAC, the Pro Board or any state agency, and it doesn't give you a certificate or CE hours. Your certification comes from your state's course and exams; this book is for studying and reviewing for them. Check which NFPA 1006 edition and skill sheets your state uses.
No. It's for studying and reviewing. The skills are learned on real vehicles with your instructors, following your department's SOPs and local protocols.
No. They're written for this book, in the style of the written exam, and each one has a one-line explanation.
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Yes. The PDF prints at home or at a print shop, so you can keep a copy at the station or on the rig.
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No more rereading the manual with nothing sticking.
The six directions of movement: you see them drawn and you've got them.
You show up to the exam and the scene knowing where everything is.
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