After Being Reborn, I became a firefighter again?

Chapter 450: Chapter 364 Perfect Demonstration

"T-type rescue is a method to save those trapped on sand dunes or isolated islands in the middle of canyons or rivers. It’s mainly applicable in situations where both banks are of similar height and the rescue depth isn’t too significant!"

If it’s a mountain stream, we usually use trees as support points at both ends, while in cities we use beams and columns.

Second, there is the displacement system, which includes lateral and longitudinal displacement..."

The explanation process was exceedingly dry.

But for every firefighter, it was something new, something life-saving.

To be precise, it was something to save others’ lives.

A new technique could possibly allow them to enter spaces they previously couldn’t.

But in the eyes of Fang Huai, who was digesting the knowledge, this traditional T-type rescue still had many flaws. Although it saved on equipment and manpower, its efficiency was somewhat lower.

Moreover, the lack of safety equipment was infuriating. There ought to be one rope responsible for lateral movement and another for longitudinal movement, yet there was no professional load-distributing metal plate. The ropes for lateral movement and descent were actually managed by a single rope tied into four butterfly knots to serve the load-distributing function.

Fang Huai felt powerless to criticize.

They wanted to implement advanced T-type rescue, and yet they relied on these primitive methods.

To go without dual-rope protection was one thing, but then to worry about the rope sling being pulled down into a knot, and then having to use a stretcher to haul someone up from below, was it all some kind of Little Flying Knight scenario? ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm

A sensible rescue system should replace manual work with equipment wherever possible!

However, Fang Huai was aware that it would probably take many years to perfect these equipments. For now, the issue was not just about safety, but about having the equipment at all.

In an actual emergency, just like in the past when they could only rely on a three-loop waist knot for protection, when it was time to go, they had to go.

It’s tough being a firefighter these days.

Our country’s firefighting rescue teams started late in rope technology, introducing Japan’s spiral rope technique around the year 2000 to begin filling the gap in domestic firefighting rope technology.

They also began to study some of the maneuvers.

But that thing really depends on skill. It emphasizes simplicity, minimal equipment, less protection, relying on ropes for everything, requiring high proficiency. Even the newer protection methods adopted SRT (single, single-rope protection) as the main approach.

There was no collaborative protection. A mistake could not be made, or it would come down to how tough the figure-eight knot was.

This method was in use until the past two years when Hong Kong took the lead in starting to engage with Western rope technology. But even the DRT (double, dual-rope protection), involving multi-person collaboration, still lacked experience.

The rope technology philosophies of Japan and the West were like comparing Japanese cars to American or German cars. One is lightweight and fuel-efficient, the other is safe and durable. You can’t say lightweight is bad, but if you really get into a crash, you’ll regret not having invested in more insurance.

The main issue is still the lack of equipment.

DRT protection requires a lot of equipment, expensive, needing more personnel, but it’s safer with high fault tolerance.

Don’t underestimate those rope equipments. They are very precise, and the good ones are very expensive. In an actual rescue, if one carabiner fails, serious problems can arise immediately. The equipment wears out quickly and requires a large stock.

Furthermore, our country’s training institutions for rescue rope technology are chaotic and diverse, with different technical categories, lacking strict regulation of the qualifications of the instructors.

Starting late, we mostly use others’ inventions. Not only are we unable to use them properly, but we also have to pay for training. The design logic belongs to others, and they hold patents for many of the components, making some training fees unavoidable.

Nevertheless, today wasn’t all bad; I did bring the rescue harness with me.

Honestly, considering ropes, an ordinary person would have trouble just tying shoelaces neatly, let alone dealing with such a complex rope system. Most people wouldn’t even understand it, let alone manage it.

But fortunately, after so many years, since it’s an important lifesaving equipment and an assessment item, everyone has had a lot of practice with ropes, so their understanding of rope systems isn’t bad. Quickly, they took apart the entire system into components of protection, traction, braking, and focused on researching the prepared T-type system.

Then, holding ropes and various carabiners, pulleys, they started tying them one by one.

During the lecture, the pot was full of mouse droppings, but when it came to practice, everyone turned into good students.

Fang Huai was different, though. He was the type who aimed for Tsinghua University, the kind who liked to take a few carefully selected difficult questions to trouble the teacher after class.

"Wuya, for one end of the transport rope, you make a double figure-eight knot, hang it with a safety hook, and connect it to the hole on the lower side close to the opposite bank of the load-bearing rope, right? And inside the corresponding hole on the load-bearing rope, connect a single pulley with a safety carabiner?"

Wouldn’t it be better to use a self-locking carabiner for this top one?

Wuya: "Hmm, yes, you can do that. There are self-locking ones. Go get them from the truck."

Since it’s single-rope protection, the load-distributing board... the load-distributing rope, on top, can another main lock be added?

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Seems like you’re nitpicking.

"The main thing is to understand the principles."

Fang Huai: emm...

"As for principles, you also omitted some safety details. One is that an ID has to add a friction lip when feeding the rope, and another is that when installing life lines, each rope should be left with excess to facilitate movement. This maneuver is too complex, and there may be more to it. I’m not very clear on the rest. The safety precautions are too numerous. I suggest putting together a booklet of construction precautions."

Wuya: "...Yes, that’s possible. I can make a booklet for you guys."

"Hmm, after you make it, I’ll help you review it and add some stuff."

Wuya: ???

I thought you said you weren’t very clear?

"Why don’t you demonstrate it once?"

Hu Peizhou finally spoke up from the side: "Number 1 will demonstrate first, I’ve already decided."