Cutting Cars: Puyallup firefighters practice accident rescues

  • Source: Longview Daily News
  • Published: 05/14/2017 02:14 AM

“Find the weakest spot and cut!” shouts Jeff Pugh to a group of firefighters armed with hydraulic cutter. Like a pair of oversized scissors, the cutter slices through the steel frame of the Cadillac, detaching two side doors with a crunch. Then firefighters yank off the doors, exposing the right half of the smashed-up vehicle’s interior. The doors screech against the cement floor as a firefighter drags them to a pile of discarded car parts nearby. Pugh is the lead instructor from the Puyallup Extrication Team, a nonprofit education group that trains firefighters on how to safely remove trapped victims in car accidents using basic and advanced techniques.



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