Thursday, January 29, 2009

School Bus Emergency Extrication, an Emergency Responder's Perspective

Over the last few years, we've talked a bit about working with local police and law enforcement on emergency extrication of school buses. Today, at FireEngineering.com Tom Kiurski, training coordinator, paramedic, and director of fire safety education for Livonia (MI) Fire & Rescue, tells the story from his perspective, including what it takes to get a school bus on which to practice and the contents of the three-part course. Just like the school transportation industry, he calls on his colleagues to increase cooperation and education for the sake of safety.

(Photo from Tom Kiurski.)

1 comment:

  1. I am so excited to see emergency management take a forefront with student transportation. Our goal, of course, is to always keep kids safe. Can we do a better job?? You bet. We can work with our "community partners" to better plan and prepare. If you don't know who your emergency manager, fire chief, police chief is, today is a good day to get aquainted. Ask permission to go to one of their staff meetings. They want to help us and in doing so, we halp them.

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