Marines Participate in San Francisco Urban Search and Rescue Training

The following is a release from Sgt. Terence Brady, Defense Media Activity:

Marines and sailors met with the San Francisco Fire Department during an urban search and rescue training event at Treasure Island, Oct. 7, 2015, as part of Fleet Week San Francisco 2015.

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The mission was to give the Marines and sailors exposure to what a city response force would do in the event of a natural disaster, according to Thom Jaquysh, a retired firefighter from the San Francisco Fire Department.

“We put them through heavy lifting and moving, where we would have to move heavy pieces of concrete to access victims, breaching and breaking to access victims and building shoring to get in and make sure that the building is safe for us to work in so that we can get the victims,” said Jaquysh.

During the training, the Marines and sailors were broken up into teams, cycling through three stations where they were instructed on techniques.

The first station focused on lifting and moving, where they used pry bars to lift and move heavy pieces of concrete. The second was a shoring station, where they made wooden structures to support …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life