He is the lead Author of Fire Engineering’s Residential Fire Rescue & Tactical Firefighter books. Mark is an international instructor teaching in Canada, the United States, FDIC and India. Mark van der Feyst has been in the fire service since 1999 and is currently a firefighter with the FGFD. We respond to many different emergency incidents including road traffic collisions, rope rescue, water rescue, hazardous materials and flooding as well as.
Be prepared by equipping yourself with the pocket style that best suits your departments bailout equipment. Regardless of the system being used, it is one other way for a firefighter to escape the untenable conditions of the building. Having properly assembled egress pockets makes you more efficient on the fire scene. There are other anchor points that can be used like the door handle, halligan tool, radiator grill as well as other pre-engineered systems that are attached to the firefighter’s pant like Photo 1. This escape tactic requires practice and training to perfect it, along with the basic set up described above. Once on the ground, they can let go of both ropes and walk away from the building. They can then release some of the tight grip they have on both ropes to let the roe slide through their hands so that they can descend. When they are completely out of the window, they should be facing the building with their feet hanging toward the ground as seen in Photo 6.
Photo 6: When out of the window, they should be facing the building.
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