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Rope rescue exercise on the Cologne Cable Car. Rope rescue is a subset of technical rescue that involves the use of rope, be it steel or cable rope, or more commonly used nylon, polyester, or other type of rope. Kernmantle (kern = core and mantle = sheath) rope as it is called, is available in various types: dynamic (stretches to absorb the ...
New Jersey Transit Police K-9 Officer and Lieutenant at Hoboken Terminal. One of the primary missions of the New Jersey Transit Police Department is the prevention of terrorism on all of New Jersey Transit's trains and buses. This is especially relevant since the 2004 terrorist attacks of the transit system in Madrid, Spain. [citation needed]
A radium release hitch is a load-releasing hitch using 3:1 mechanical advantage which is used in a two-rope technical rescue system. [1] The Radium Release Hitch allows a load to be transferred from one rope to another and is commonly rigged into the belay line prior to the operation of a two-rope technical rescue system.
Breeches buoy during the rescue of the SS Northern Pacific on January 2, 1919 The Life Line, by Winslow Homer, 1884, depicts a breeches buoy in use during a rescue operation. A breeches buoy is a rope-based rescue device used to extract people from wrecked vessels, or to transfer people from one place to another in situations of danger.
A probe found that hundreds of law enforcement officers attended a police training conference that taught unconstitutional policing tactics.
The Newark Fire Division provides Fire Protection Services,Hazardous Materials Mitigation Services, Emergency Medical Response Services and Specialized Rescue Services in the city of Newark, New Jersey. [2] With a population of 311,549 it is New Jersey's largest city. In all the division is responsible for protecting 26.107 sq mi (67.617 km).
For the 1997-1998 and 2013 school years, Marine Academy of Science and Technology received the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve. [4] MAST was one of two high schools recognized by the New Jersey "Star School" program in its inaugural year of 1993–94. [10]
The school campus includes a 32-acre 60-foot deep commercial dive training quarry, hyperbaric chamber, Lincoln welding facilities and fully equipped classrooms. In 2013 Divers Academy expanded, adding a custom mixed gas deep dive training facility in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The 50-acre, 300 foot deep dive quarry is the deepest dive training ...