Rope Rescue
Available Courses
Rope Rescue - Operations
INTRODUCTION TO ROPE RESCUE | 30 hours
This course is designed to introduce you to High Angle Rescue. You will learn the fundamental skills and techniques needed to move a patient up and down steep and vertical terrain. You will also learn personal rope skills for going up and down lines for access to technical terrain. Targeted toward Fire Rescue, Search and Rescue, Wildland Fire Rapid Intervention Teams, Rangers, military and other technical rescue teams.
Rope Rescue - Technician
SPECIALIZED COURSE | EMERGENCY RESPONDERS | 30 hours
During the Technician level course, you will continue to hone the skills learned in the operations level course. You will also add skills and techniques for better managing a rescue, overcoming terrain challenges, and additional personal rope skills. Targeted toward all hazards fire rescue teams, Wildland RIT team, SAR teams, and other teams responding to technical and vertical terrain rescues.
Rope Rescue - Specialist
SPECIALIZED COURSE | EMERGENCY RESPONDERS | 30 hours
Specialist level rope rescue training provides those who are looking to increase their knowledge about rope systems more in-depth knowledge of technical rigging. Skills learned in this course include Monopods and a deeper dive into Artificial High Directionals and Additional knowledge and skills for transporting a horizontally over canyons and challenging terrain with Highlines. This course is targeted toward individual rescues and teams who have the above terrain in their response area, have responsibility for training, are training leads on their team and who want to explore in depth what is possible with technical rigging.
FAQs
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Rescue 3 International offers three distinct levels of training for certification.
Awareness
Awareness level coursework and certification provides an introductory skill set to a potential rescuer. This certification will prepare you for the minimum response for technical rescue scenarios.
Operations
Operations level coursework and certification provides more comprehensive education than the awareness level and will equip rescuers with knowledge to identify and avoid hazards and apply basic rescue techniques in a supporting role during an active rescue.
Technician
Technician level coursework and certification builds on the skills of the operations level to equip the rescuer with knowledge to identify and avoid hazards, utilize appropriate rescue equipment, apply advanced rescue techniques and lead a team during an active rescue.
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Black Fox Rescue Institute offers Rescue 3 International Technical rope rescue courses These courses can be tailored to your mission profiles, be it Urban or Wilderness. Courses meet the NFPA 2500 standards at the Operations and Technician levels. For instruction customized to your group, we recommend scheduling courses where you typically operate so we can make use of your local terrain in order to train for a realistic response.
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Our technical ropes courses meet the requirements for the NFPA 2500 standard at Operations Level (RRO) and at the Technician Level (RRT) for technical rope incidents.
