This past weekend, April 25 and April 26, members from South Wall attended a 16 hour Structural Collapse course presented by Safety and Survival Training LLC. This program consisted of shoring, breaching, lifting, technical search as well as many other critical functions performed by the operational level rescuer.

South Wall Structural Collapse Team now consists of 25 members trained to the NFPA 1670 Standard for Structural Collapse Operations. The team trains every other month on these special skills. This team was formed after  numerous incidents within our District and Mutual Aid towns, where South Wall operated and such special skills were required. A few examples of theses incidents would be, vehicles into buildings, natural disasters and natural gas explosions which are becoming more popular as we have been seeing on social media. South Wall’s collapse Team recently signed a mutual aid agreement to respond together with Neptune Special Ops to any confirmed Collapse.