Trench Rescue Technician Manual
Description
TRENCH RESCUE TECHNICIAN MANUAL
By CMC Rescue, Inc.
One of the most challenging and complex technical rescue disciplines, trench rescue requires specialized knowledge, skills and abilities to
operate safely and efficiently in and around collapsed trenches and excavations. This manual helps to prepare today’s fire and rescue
service to perform well-organized and systematic emergency trench and excavation rescues. Included are OSHA regulations, soil basics, trench
configurations and collapse patterns, trench hazards, on-scene considerations, operational safety, protective systems using timber and
mechanical shoring, victim considerations and incident termination. The Trench Rescue Technician Manual
by CMC was developed in collaboration with the California Office of Emergency Service and Office of the California State Fire Marshal for
the California State Fire Training System. 235 pages.
