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More than 70 firefighters from 13 volunteer companies across Baltimore County, MD, as well as career firefighters from BCoFD Station 17 - Urban Search and Rescue unit – and medical staff from the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, worked side-by-side with some of the area’s foremost towing and recovery professionals on October 22nd at the county's first-ever "Big Rig Rescue Training" held at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, taught by expert instructor Billy Leach, Jr. All of the heavy rescue squads in Baltimore County, which are specialized apparatus equipped to handle vehicle extrication, are run by volunteer fire companies. Volunteers from truck and squad companies across Baltimore County participated – including from stations 35 (Arbutus), 21 (Bowleys Quarters), 40 (Glyndon) 48 (Kingsville), 30 (Lutherville), 52 (Middle River), 22 (Middle River), 26 (North-Point Edgemere), 31 (Owings Mills), 32 (Pikesville), 29 (Providence / Towson), 41 (Reisterstown) & 20 (White Marsh). Volunteers were placed in crews made up of members of surrounding companies and rotated among five different “Big Rig” rescue scenarios including an overturned cement truck, a school bus on top of a Jeep, a passenger car under the rear of a tractor-trailer, and an 18-wheeler carrying liquid asphalt that overturned on top of a car. Participants in the course learned how to better stabilize these “Big Rigs” to be able to care for and extricate patients in a real life situation. The training was coordinated by the Baltimore County Volunteer Firemen’s Association, the umbrella organization for the 33 volunteer fire companies and two volunteer rehab units that operate with the Baltimore County career fire department to comprise the Baltimore County fire service.

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