MFC Survival - USAR training
30 May 2008
MFC Survival has donated equipment to the Urban Search and Rescue Unit at the Fire Service College at Moreton-in-Marsh. The equipment includes a rapid response shelter which does not require continuous inflation. It can be used to create many different types of scenario at the college such as an incident control camp, a temporary morgue or a hospital.
MFC Survival also donated their new All Purpose Inflatable Stretcher. The stretcher features a superior new design that can be used on land, mud, marsh, open water, ice and snow. It is particularly useful in an urban search and rescue setting because it provides a stable and robust platform on uneven surfaces for safe casualty handling.
MFC Survival has supplied equipment to the Fire Service College for a number of years as well as many of the fire and rescue services in the UK and abroad. The design team has taken a lot of advice from the emergency services during the development of products for emergency use.
The Fire Service College is the premier training establishment of its kind in the world after 38 years of continuous development at the Moreton-in-Marsh site in England, as such MFC Survival is proud to be associated with them.
David Garman, Managing Director of MFC Survival said: "We are extremely proud and pleased to be able to offer any help with product and product development during this time of new and varied challenges, organisational change and operational threats to aid the vital and specialised training available at the Fire Service College."
Station Officer Robert Kreisler of the Urban Search and Rescue Department at the Fire service College says: "MFC Survival kindly donated to the Fire Service College, Urban Search and Rescue Department two inflatable stretchers and an inflatable rescue structure last week for use within the department and the college in general. The Fire Service College and MFC Survival have worked closely over the past year in order to highlight the requirements of a rescue stretcher within an urban search and rescue environment.
"I found that the All Purpose Inflatable stretcher proved be a great asset to the scenario based exercises that are carried out at the college, these involve not only the British Fire and Rescue Services but also overseas delegates. They have all benefited from the equipment. The Urban Search and Rescue department of the Fire Service College look forward to maintaining a close working relationship with MFC Survival in the future as regards to the development of rescue equipment."
