Interesting PC visit to the fire and rescue training centre

[mulledwhine]

Really interesting.

We were shown how advances in large animal rescue have come on over the years.

The most important things that I have taken away from the visit, is that you need to have and emergency plan to put into action, while you wait for them to arrive , it will take them longer than you expect to get to you, as they have to deploy all the trained people and get the specialist equipment together.

And certainly in my area they do not charge for their services , the chap giving the tour explained that they regard domestic animals as family members

 

[welshcobmad]

My yard owner is a fireman & had a days training the other week how to rescue livestock esp horses from ditches etc using £10k's worth of mechanical horse where every body part moves. Amazing! Good they're doing stuff like that now.

 

[angelish]

sounds really interesting
i had a word with our riding club and they are going to call in and see if we can arrange something like this

 

[mulledwhine]

I know!!!! He said that ' dobin' was £5000, he asked if that would get a couple of real horses

 

[mulledwhine]

Forgot to say that they did not charge for us to go. But everyone paid £5 and we donated it to their benevolent fund

 

[angelish]

i'd think they'd get a fair few horses for that ,although it may cost longer in the long run to keep them lol

thats sounds fair enough could def get £5 of our stingy lot

 

[welshcobmad]

We said to him he should have offered his horses services lol - 18hh dutch warmblood! Wonder how they'd manage if he got stuck!

 

[Devonshire dumpling]

My husband is a FFighter and also an EX farmer, he gets soooooooooooooooooooooooo frustrated on farm rescues!! Basically every station is highly trained in one thing, and our station is SHACS ( basically harness rescue for humans) so if they have a rescue situation for a horse they have to call in a specialist station which is 30 mins away for their specialist harnesses..... So although it is fabulous it's also so H and S orientated now that rescues are alot longer winded! For example on the farm if a cow was in the slurry pit it would be roped and hauled out ASAP with the loader on a tractor, he went to a rescue the other day with a cow in a pit and they anchored the cows head with ropes while they drained the pit!! This took 3 hrs!! then a special harness was called in to lift the cow.... and also meter reading equipment for the levels of gas the FF;s were breathing in..... do you get my drift? XX