Rescue
The Rescue Team is a proactive organization with a main purpose of providing high quality technical rescue resources immediately available for response, with skilled and dedicated personnel, along with providing District wide rescue related training. The Rescue Team consists of approximately 30 members. Station 34 on Alcosta Blvd. has become the home of the Rescue Team, primarily because of its central location and easy access to Interstate 680.
The Rescue Team personnel and USAR vehicle are Certified to an OES Medium level, meaning they have demonstrated to the State that they are trained and equipped to operate safely and effectively at structural collapse incidents involving the collapse or failure of reinforced and unreinforced masonry, concrete tilt-up and heavy timber construction. This OES qualification enables the State to activate the Rescue Team in the event of a major Disaster.
Aside from the above capabilities, every engine and truck in the Fire District meets an OES Basic level and is equipped with ropes to augment rescue operations, cribbing, air bags, and cutting and prying tools. In addition to the above, a group of Rescue Division members are active with Oakland’s Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 4. The Task Force is one of several in California, and is operated under Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security. This is a Federal Team, which responds to disasters on a National level.
The Rescue Team recently took delivery of a Spartan/SVI Rescue Unit. The vehicle is equipped to handle a variety of incidents ranging from confined space rescue, technically difficult auto extrication, swift water rescue, trench collapse rescue, structure collapse, high and low angle rope rescue, the Rescue Unit along with personnel will also respond to all fires within the District and act as the Rapid Intervention Crew.
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Famous quotes containing the word rescue:
“Whether your child is 3 or 13, don’t rush in to rescue him until you know he’s done all he can to rescue himself.”
—Barbara F. Meltz (20th century)
“In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first, to better assist the children with theirs. The same tactic is necessary on terra firma. There’s no way of sustaining our children if we don’t first rescue ourselves. I don’t call that selfish behavior. I call it love.”
—Joyce Maynard (20th century)
“To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost—that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization—is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)