The TRT is the only Team in Placer County signatory to the jurisdictional response held by the Placer County Sherriff’s Office for all rescue operations in Placer County. The TRT consists of 20 members throughout the CAL FIRE Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit, including 1 Team Manager, 3 Discipline Coordinators, and 1 Training Officer. The TRT operates within Placer County but is subject to mutual aid requests from other areas and counties. E.The CAL FIRE / Placer County Fire Department’s Technical Rescue Team (TRT) responds to emergencies such as medical rescues, water rescues, rope rescues, large animal rescues, and remote area rescues.Equipment information- selection, care, inspection, maintenance Complete instructions for performing each identified type of rescue Identification of anchor points to be used Identification of the rescue personnel who will respond Written strategies for rescuers to perform rescue, including:.

Planned procedures for summoning a rescue service.Victim contact is made as soon as possible.Establishment of a plan for ensuring that notice is given when a fall occurs.A well-developed rescue plan will consist of the following: Our teams are trained to safely rig high angle rescue stand-by on such platforms as towers, emissions stacks, powerhouse chimneys’, water towers and large industrial vessels to ensure your employees are protected while working at high elevations.Īdditionally, our rescue team chiefs and captains have the ability to work with your company’s fall protection administrator to develop the rescue plan component of your company’s overall comprehensive managed fall protection program. Employees that have their fall arrested by a personal fall protection system can be exposed to the onset of a condition know as Orthostatic Intolerance or Harnessed Induced Death in as little as five minutes. In 2007 ANSI Z359.2 incorporated guidelines that require rescue after a fall into a comprehensive managed fall protection program for general industry. A total of 256,485 fall incidents in 1995 resulted in a need for some type of response, rescue or recovery effort. Additionally, 735 falls from height resulted in deaths in 1995. Bureau of Labor Statistics, non-fatal injuries and illness involving falls in private industry totaled 255,750 in 1995.

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