Crews are practicing with “state-of-the-art tools” to navigate the challenges of electric vehicles during emergency rescues.
TOLEDO, Ohio — A new partnership is allowing members of the Toledo Fire & Rescue Department to train for rescues from electric vehicles more often.
The owners of the U-Pull R-Parts salvage yard in north Toledo Now are offering their property and vehicles to the department for practice.
“It gives them an opportunity to actually get live training exercises, to get acclimated to their tools, to how it’s going to operate in the field,” said site manager James Siebert. “Essentially it’s an opportunity to save somebody’s life.”
TFRD Lt. Kevin Ohrt said the partnership allows crews to test out state-of-the-art equipment, specifically with electric vehicles.
Ohrt said the vehicles create new challenges.
“It has posed a whole new way that we need to extricate people,” he said. “Even on a simple car fire, the toxins that are put out with it, …