Firefighter Training Video: Hasty Harness

Tip of the Spear: This firefighter training video from the Miami-Dade (FL) Fire Rescue Training Division demonstrates how to rapidly create a rescue system with your personal webbing to lower victims from upper floors.

The hasty harness is also great for dragging large victims around objects. It can be applied to firefighters or civilians found in a prone or supine position.

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