08/26/2014 PCTRT Technical Rescue Drill Whitman MA
08/26/2014 - On the morning of Tuesday, August 26, 2014 the Plymouth County Technical Rescue Team held a training drill at the Whitman Fire Department Training Tower on Essex Street. Technical rescue technicians utilized their skills in as rope technicians, and their skills being structural collapse technicians to work with machinery while being suspended from the ropes. Members of the team were lowered out of the third floor window of the drill tower and obtained a piece of machinery from a crew working on the second floor. The member would then breach and break a piece of concrete slab lower down the tower.
