One of the neat things about rope rescue is that ... Establish a Radium Release hitch or a pig system next to your SCARAB. When you come to the knot, transfer the load to your back-up system ...

Whenever I find myself in front of a new class of firefighters, I start out by asking what types of rope-rescue calls they ... glance over the tensionless hitch (usually until discussing tensioned ...

We were also interested in evaluating the role of the load-releasing hitch ... rescue technicians. They greatly anticipated the event and tried to do their best. So, why was so much rope moving ...