Emergencies involving Electric & Hybrid Vehicles

Training Description

In North America Alternative fueled vehicles are rapidly expanding into the field of both passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles. The main group in these alternate fueled vehicles are Hybrid and Electric vehicles. While we have dealt with Hybrids for over 20 years, Evs or electric vehicles are much newer and have much different concerns and hazards than hybrids.

We will be covering ALL the concerns and hazards dealing with these vehicles. But unlike many programs we will operational problem solving to give the students real world solutions to these .All of the necessary skills will be covered, from patient management to fire suppression to extrication to scene mitigation & debris clean up to situational awareness.

Purpose:

The purpose of this program especially to be presented is to provide a good common sense vehicle technology presentation that's meshed with operational concerns & factors. My background in emergency services goes back almost 39 years with being certified as a firefighter and as an EMT but also as an instructor in various skills & knowledge. More recently however and in line with my passion for all things vehicle rescue related my focus over the past 25 years has been about vehicle technology and before vehicle technology was the "in" topic to discuss. This presentation will place vehicle technology concerns in construction and materials in the proper light as well as solutions offered and directly how it relates to operational difficulties if not considered. Also casualty injury patterns that directly relate from the same construction and materials concerns will be presented and solutions offered. I will touch upon vehicle fire concerns with today's & tomorrow's vehicles of all drivetrain types. This presentation will use multimedia as a medium for the student to visualize the spoken educational materials. Also I will be using the iOS feature of airDrop to let students have an electronic one page synopsis of the presentation if they wish. The multimedia presentation will use video and animation to bring to life tool evolutions, practical and those operations interacting with the simulated vehicle and casualty. Besides facts & figures the verbal part of the presentation will be enhanced by focused "story telling" and a query session to ensure repetition of the presentation materials and objectives. While we cannot have an actual vehicle in the room the multimedia part of the presentation will actually be better since it will be able go inside and see various areas we would not be able to do so otherwise.

Presented by: David Dalrymple

David Dalrymple, AIETecRI is a Rescue Consultant/Educator for RoadwayRescue LLC. He has been involved with Emergency Services for 39 years.

Dave is the former Education Chair for TERC-US, a group who are tasked with providing educational guidance and assessment for extrication challenges in the United States. He is certified as an International level extrication assessor and has taught and assessed in North America, Europe, UK and South Africa. In 2007 he received the coveted Harvey Grant award for excellence in rescue education. Dave is also a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) task force on Hybrids & Electric vehicles for first & second responders for the past 12 years. Dave has been actively teaching transportation rescue topics for over 27 years. He is the owner of RoadwayRescue LLC, a dynamic educational team for transportation rescue training. Also Dave was the team captain when Clinton EMS/Rescue Vehicle Rescue team won the World Rescue Challenge in 1998.

Dave volunteers as a fire/rescue technician for the Sports Car Club of America-Northern New Jersey region and is actively involved in emergency response at performance rally events with American Rally Association. Dave is a member of the International Council on Motorsport Sciences. He has developed a Rally Safety educational program series that is partnered with the SFI Foundation for accreditation.

Dave has developed & delivered educational programs, seminars as well as published articles on transportation rescue topics on a local, regional, national and international level. He currently articles for Fire Engineering and International Firefighter magazines and also hosts Xtrication Radio a talk radio blog on vehicle rescue at Fire Engineering.com. Dave also is a contributing author for the Penwell Firefighter I & II textbook and has authored 3 seasons of extrication training minutes for Fire Engineering.com & has authored a 3 DVD educational series on vehicle rescue from Fire Engineering Books and Videos. Dave has recently been published in Auto+Medical the journal of Motorsports Medicine.