Figure 1: Travis Vickerson walks his audience through cut-resistant materials at the TCI Magazine Trainer’s Test Kitchen. All photos by TCIA staff. This article is based on a demonstration by Travis Vickerson at the TCI Magazine Trainer’s Test Kitchen demo [...]

Fire departments often find that tree-worker rescue might be a blind spot for them. Photos courtesy of the author. About two years ago, Kevin Lunnie, co-founder of Vector Rescue, and his business partner, James Croswell, started looking at the kind [...]

If we approach every job site with a laser focus to do it as efficiently as possible, then we also will be doing it as safely as possible. Photo courtesy of the author. The job site is a unique beast [...]

We’ve been shorting ourselves. When it comes to aerial-rescue training, we, as an industry, have been spending too much time on the same few points while overlooking numerous critical points in the overall incident. We tend to approach the rescue [...]

The very first impression you get when you pick up the HAIX Protector Ultra work boots is how incredibly solid they feel. It is immediately apparent that they are high quality and rugged. After wearing them in all conditions for [...]