TEEX Structural Collapse Technician 2 Course

In May, I and 5 other Boston fire fighters attended TEEX's Structural Collapse Technician 2 course in College Station, Texas. There were 48 students attending that were broken up into 8 person rescue squads.

This course is 80 hours, eight days in length, ten hours of instruction each day and is designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform rescue at structural collapse scenes due to natural disaster or terrorist incidents.

The purpose of the Structural Collapse Technician 2 course is to provide jurisdictions with the same training received by the FEMA US&R Structural Collapse Technicians. This course has significant hands on labs in the Technical Skills Training Area (TSTA) and Disaster City® to ensure that students received the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to perform exterior shoring and interior shoring operations, breaching, breaking, cutting, and burning operations, and lifting and moving techniques at structural collapse incidents.