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Summary: Firefighters use nylon webbing to tie a girth hitch around hose lines, around tools, and can be used to remove victims from the scene of an accident. See gear, such as nylon webbing, firefighters use and find out how they use nylon webbing when fighting fire or removing a victim from a vehicle in this free video featuring a professional firefighter.
Captain Joe Bruni has over three decades of experience as a street firefighter and company officer. Bruni has experience as a department training officer in the fire and rescue safety...read more
"One of the most convenient and handy tools a firefighter can carry is a short piece of nylon webbing, whether it's flat webbing or tubular webbing really doesn't make much of a difference. The webbing can be rolled up into a nice convenient small package, and carried somewhere in the pocket of the turnout clothing or bunker gear. It can be removed and quickly unrolled. I prefer the type of webbing that actually has a loop sewn into each end. That loop enables us to tie a girth hitch around hose lines, or around tools if we need to hoist them quickly. It can also be used to place around a victim's limbs; like legs or arms to do a victim removal. So there's many uses for the piece of tubular or flat webbing that has sewn ends on each end. It can come in varying lengths of anywhere from ten to fifteen foot is the normal size webbing, or length of webbing that we can carry as a firefighter, and it's a very convenient, excellent tool to carry when you need to tie off something in a pinch. The nylon webbing, very convenient and handy tool to have as a firefighter."
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