This month, I and 6 other Boston fire fighters attended TEEX’s Advanced Structural Collapse 3 course in College Station, Texas. This course is 50 hours, five days in length, ten hours of instruction each day and challenges the Structural Collapse Technician with advanced exterior shoring problems. The student expands his/her knowledge of wood shores with multiple insertion point shores, shoring of arches and breached openings. It concludes in an intensive and realistic daytime exercise in which the students employ skills learned during the course. The students are provided multiple scenarios requiring a combination of advanced rescue and shoring techniques.Thanks to our instructor, Mike Walters, for conducting such a great course.
