Where: Texas Motor Speedway 

              I-35 and Hwy. 114 Ft Worth, TX.       

When:  March 14-16, 2008 

Courses being offered:

Auto Extrication:

All training is designed to meet NFPA Standards 1670, 1006 and 472, as they pertain to auto extrication.

Attendees will receive both class room and hands-on training.

Attendance will be limited to ensure lots of hands-on training.

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Awareness (Basic)                              20 hours                            Tuition: $125.00

• Scene safety zones
• General stabilization techniques
• General structure and anatomy of vehicles and possible points of victim egress.
• An awareness of potential energy sources and how to isolate them, such as airbags, hood struts, bumper struts, inflators, seat belt pre-tensioners, etc.
• A general familiarization of tools, (hydraulic, hand, and electric), and the safety issues involved with using them.
• An awareness of possible fire and fire protection procedures.
• Basic techniques of auto extrication to include: Stabilizing, battery disconnection, glass removal, door removal, side removal, roof removal, dash roll, etc.
• Basic patient care and removal.

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Operations (Intermediate)                          20 hours                      Tuition: $125.00

• Scene safety and safety zones
• An awareness of scene management procedures
• Vehicle stabilization, (both single and multiple car)
• Determining access and egress points for the safe removal of victims and crew
• Basic and intermediate level extrication techniques
• Isolation of potentially harmful sources (airbags, fuel systems, hybrid cars, compressed gas inflators, struts, etc)
• Recognizing potential for fire and establishing fire protection
• Basic patient care and packaging

Note: The hybrid vehicle, SRS, and scene management classes are required to complete this course.

The fees for these classes are included in the tuition.

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Technician (Advanced)                              20 hours                        Tuition: $125.00

• Establishing scene safety and safety zones
• The role of IC and total scene and resource management
• Advanced stabilization techniques of multi position and multi car evolutions
• Determining access and egress points for the safe removal of victims and crew
• Advanced extrication techniques of multi position and multi vehicle evolutions
• Isolation of potentially harmful sources (airbags, fuel systems, hybrid cars, compressed gas inflators, struts, etc)
• Recognizing potential for fire and establishing fire protection
• Basic patient care and packaging

Note: The hybrid vehicle, SRS and scene management classes are required to complete this course. 

The fees for these classes are included in the tuition.

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Big Rig Course 1: (Technician, Specialty)           16 hours             Tuition $150.00 

Attendees will receive classroom and hands-on training using unique techniques with both light and heavy rescue equipment.

Classroom training will provide information on:

Air Bag Lifting Systems (High, Low Pressure and New Technology)

Timber Cribbing and Strut Support Operations

The 5 Step Discipline for Overturns and Underrides

Attendees will perform uncommon extrication techniques such as trunk tunneling and the “Pickup Truck Slice”.  Also, unique methods of stabilization using strut systems and “cradling” techniques will be practiced, knowing the equipment is within its Working Load Limits, thus enhancing safety for all involved.

Attendees will operate at very challenging, yet realistic scenarios featured during the hands-on session.  Such scenarios include a loaded cement mixer overturned on a car, a side resting car under a van trailer, bobtail underride, and a loaded garbage truck overturned onto a car.

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This is a Free Class open to all emergency responders!

Hybrid Vehicles:            

This training will provide the latest information and techniques for dealing with hybrid vehicles in both extrication and fire situations,

including:

Familiarization, low and high voltage shut down, sleep mode, key-less ignition, emergency response guides, technical extrication information and dealing with hybrid fires.

Many hybrid cars and trucks will be displayed.

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This is a Free Class open to all emergency responders!

Air Bags and Safety Restraint Systems:

This class will present the latest information on safety restraint systems through the 2007 models, both foreign and domestic.

Including;

Driver’s and passenger’s frontal airbags, door mounted side impact airbags, seat mounted side impact airbags, curtain airbags and head protection systems, rear passenger airbags, seat position, occupant position, weight, and seat belt, sensor systems. Rop systems, pre accident and post accident safety systems, single and dual stage inflators, pyrotechnic and compressed gas inflators.

System shut down, battery locations, vehicle scanning, inflation zones, trim removal, inflator locations, capacitor bleed down times, out side sources of danger (cell phones, stereo systems,  static electricity)and much more.

Dozens of airbags and related systems will be on display.

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Patient Extraction:

Basic patient care, C-spine, C-collars, KEDs, lifting and handing techniques, patient packaging, the golden hour, patient chain of life support (first aid, BLS, ALS, ER) 

This class is designed not only for first responders, but to give emergency room personnel an insight into operations, techniques, and problems that we face as Rescuers, EMTs, and Paramedics.

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Expo

100+ Booths will be available for vendors, inside the Winston cup Garages.

Exterior lots will be available for fire, rescue, brush, aerial and tanker trucks, ambulances, and wreckers to be displayed.

Live demos!!! 

Many manufacturers will demo there newest equipment.

Several Hybrid and Multi Fuel Vehicles will be displayed

The latest SRS components will be displayed

All extrication training will be open to spectator viewing Free

(A world of learning just by watching)

Tee Shirts and other novalties will be available for purchase.

Photos will be available for purchase.