Taipei City Fire Department

To reinforce firemen's physical and rescue skills, The Taipei City Fire Department had held the search and rescue competition at the fire department training center (No. 376, Sec. 2, Chenggong Rd., Neihu Dist., Taipei City), Dazhi Bridge and Rainbow Bridge on 11/7 (Wed). Besides the individual fire rescue challenge competition, there were more intense and intriguing team-based competitions for car accident and river crossing rescue skills.
While facing miscellaneous rescue events (fire, car accident, typhoon, earthquake), with varieties of rescue equipment, firemen required not only enough physical strength but more destructing and rescue skills to exclude any possibility of jeopardy. Given the top priority of rescuer and patients' safety, it allowed them to save patients immediately with first aid placement and delivered to the hospital after the initial triage had been performed. This car accident rescue competition aimed to challenge firemen in a situation when time is critical manage to secure victims out of the car by destructing the external structure safely, quickly and efficiently. And thus resulting in successfully saving life which team collaboration spirit is the key.
In addition, in response to situations when rescue were held on Tamsui River or Keelung River,The Taipei City Fire Department also held river crossing rescue skill competition under Rainbow Bridge to demonstrate the situation when people trapped on river shoals using the ebb tide. The rescue process involved throwing leash from a rescue line gun to establish the rope rescue system 100 meters across Keelung River and operating pneumatic boats to the right bank of the turbulent river to save rescuer back to the safe region. This competition not only challenged rescuer to establish the rope rescue system and save the victims under time pressure, but was the best way to evaluate whether they could stay calm based on the team physical skills under pressure.
The Taipei City Fire Department also announced that rescuing actions should require more than just excellent physical strength; sophisticated and high-end skills are also necessary to help handling various rescue conditions. Moreover, individual rescue skills are the fundamental component when conducting rescuing actions, and team rescuing should involve good communication and trust to complete enduring missions at the least amount of time. Through this the competition, firemen were more trained and equipped with robust rescue skills to protect citizen's safety and property welfare.