Imagine being in a car accident and not having a way out, it’s up to first responders to assess the situation and help save victims trapped in their cars. The volunteer fire departments of Level Plains and Daleville took WDHN behind the scenes of their entrapment training.
“Today we are practicing extrication when someone has been in a car wreck or not necessarily a car wreck could be a machinery entrapment or something, today we are practicing with cars,” said Level Plains Fire Department Chief, Jamie Gatlin.
Chief Gatlin says they always have new people coming through the station and training is crucial for a volunteer fire department.
“We have people who have never had a chance to do this so they get a chance to do it in kind of controlled conditions. And also, our automatic mutual aid partner Daleville Fire Department is coming over and they are going to join in and so that we can get to practice together like we are working together on the scene,” Gatlin said.