Building construction is one area I hope to be able to add original content, given I hold a Degree in Architectural History and Theory. I am a firm believer that there is now a additional category of building construction. Despite both being wood construction, Legacy and Lightweight construction vary significantly.
VentEnterSearch.com offered up a post on how to organize Cribbing for Vehicle Extraction. Cribbing gets strapped to a base plate, and enables it to be carried as a unit. Properly sized, you could use one pack per side of a car. Over at AbsoluteRescue.com they featured LA County Station 8
Considered to be the bible on the topic by many, The FDNY Forcible Entry Reference Guide is available for free online The Guide cover the History and usage of tools to gain entry to structures.
This Blog was put together to aggregate articles and resources I have found interesting or helpful related to emergency response. Topics will likely cover Fire/EMS/Technical Rescue/Urban and Ground Search and Rescue. The goal is a couple of posts per week, Ideally with some original content.
The Cat Is back! The new Yarmouth ferry service will Start June 15th, and feature a return to Bay ferries operation and a high speed catamaran . The province has reached a 10-year agreement with Bay Ferries Limited to manage and operate a high-speed ferry between Yarmouth and Portland, Maine.
Mark your calendars, the Panama Canal Expansion opens on June 26th. this will likely cause shipping lines to shift their vessels, and routes – especially with recent mergers and Takeovers.
Word is the Mexican Navy tall ship ARM Cuauhtemoc is due for a port visit in May. She was her once before in 2008. (Will post photo when i locate it) She is the last of four sister ships (the other 3 being Colombia’s Gloria, Ecuador’s Guayas and Venezuela’s Simón
The Stena Icemax has now moved to a position about 24 Nautical miles off Halifax Harbour. It is unlikely she will actually enter Halifax, but the new position makes supply runs much shorter. She is the Blue Square in the Bottom Right corner of the Chart. The Stena Icemax Lost
Another vessel that sailed last night, Overseas Jademar spent 2 days offloading into Tufts cove tank. The Power Plant can burn both heavy oil and Natural Gas, and will see a tanker once a year or so. Built in 2002, Overseas Jademar is a Panamax tanker. Noteably she failed a
The 2001 built 2732teu Meta made her second call in Halifax for ACL. Her first was March 6 on her Westbound Leg. She Sailed last night for Liverpool. ACL is using Conventional Containerships to bridge the Gap between the Retirement of the G3 vessels and the service entry of the