BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS (ESSEX COUNTY) - For eight days at the end of the month of October, Massachusetts Task Force-1 hosted members from the Canadian Armed Forces, Newton Fire Department, and members of the Southeastern Technical Rescue Teams (Barnstable, Bristol, Norfolk, and Plymouth) for a structural collapse technician course at their facility in Beverly. Students worked for eight, ten-hour days in both classroom and practical settings covering an overwhelming amount of information which spanned from safety, to lifting and moving, to shoring operations, to breaching and breaking, to cutting with torches, and much more. Students worked with an extensive cache of hand, pneumatic, hydraulic and gas powered tools. Both oxy-acetylene and Petrogen cutting tools were utilized and explained during training evolution's. Students left the course with a vast understanding of structural collapses, and how to search for and rescue people who are trapped, thanks to the unmatched caliber of experience from the instructors.

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