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Episode 5: Rescue Challenge

The best training involves scenarios that are as close to real-world experiences as possible. But, as skills involved become more complex, technical, and advanced, the real risks become more real. But the desire for real world rescue scenarios to test the skills, abilities, and equipment of rescue teams in Virginia lead to the start of…

Episode 4: The Dutch Gap Power Station Rescue

This incident happened on October 25, 1994 in Chesterfield County at the Dutch Gap Power Station and involved a confined space rescue, high angle and technical rescue, and some creativity and a plenty of nerves of steel. A worker had been on the top of a 300-foot-tall smokestack had fallen but his fall was arrested…

Episode 3: The VCU Fire

There are incidents we respond to over a career that stick with you. For Captain Sylvester Henderson and Captain Keith Andes (then both lieutenants), this mid-day fire was just such an incident. These two officers were the first on scene to what has been described as, “the second biggest [fire] in the city’s history behind…

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