What are the four different ways to manage glass?
- Rolls down windows
- Packexe
- Create shoot with sharps covers
- Hang sharps cover over window
How would you open a door fully for space creation?
- Cut check strap with bolt croppers
- Use rope ratchet around door and on tyre
How would you open up shut lines?
- Use pry bar to open up gap for hooligan
- Insert duck bill end of hooligan
- Use up and down movement of hooligan to open shut line (keeping hooligan close to car)
(Use side indicator light to insert spike of hooligan OR use spreaders above front tyres but must avoid suspension spring)
Which hinge should be attacked first when spreading off a closed door?
Top
Which hinge should be attacked first when spreading off an open door?
Bottom
What is the process for cutting off a closed door?
- Cut bottom hinge and wire loom
- Cut top hinge
- Cut check strap
What is the process for cutting off an open door?
- Cut check strap first
- Cut bottom hinge and wire loom
- Cut top hinge
What is the process for removing a boot for a car on 4 wheels?
- Remove rear light from one side using pry bar and hooligan
- Insert spreaders in gap to break boot lock
- Remove gas struts
- Cut boot hinges
What is the process for a dashboard lift/roll?
- Cut top of windscreen using kitch
- Peel and reveal
- Cut both A posts
- Box cut on active side
- Relief cut on passive side
- Block under B posts on passive side
- Insert spreaders on active side
- Insert ram support and ram on passive side
- One person at front conducting
- Follow opening with wedges
What is the process for removing a roof of a car on 4 wheels?
- Peel and reveal all posts
- Remove wires and seatbelts
- Cut A posts
- Cut C and D posts
- Cut passive B post
- Get crew to stabilise roof and take weight
- Cut final B post
What is the car on side initial access?
- Remove windscreen
- Remove boot and tunnel through car
What is the process for removing a windscreen for a car on it’s side?
- Place sharps cover behind windscreen
- Use kitch to make holes in four corners
- Make top horizontal cut first with recip saw (as close to edge as possible)
- Make both side cuts (cutting towards casualty)
- Fold windscreen down and make final cut along bottom
What is the process for a boot removal for a car on its side?
- Open shut lines to reveal hinges
- Cut hinges with recip saw
- Remove gas struts
- Pull boot back as far as possible
- May also need to cut lock
What is the process for a roof fold for a car on its side?
- Relief cuts along bottom where roof will fold
- Cut A, B and C posts on top
- Fold roof down
- Block under roof or cut off completely
What is the process for tunnelling through a car on its side?
- Remove headrests
- Remove windows that may be stepped on
- Remove rear seat cushions if possible
- Fold back front seats as much as possible
How do you stabilise a car on its side?
- Block under A, B and C posts
- Paratech on passive side of car (under side)
What options do we have for space creation and access for a car on its roof?
- Remove or open doors
- Remove boot
- Half oyster
How do you remove a door from a car on its roof?
- Cut hinges off as normal
- May need to cut top of door off with recip saw to stop it hitting the floor
What is the boot removal process for a car on its roof?
- Remove rear light
- Use spreaders to break boot lock
- Remove gas struts
- Cut hinges
What is the process for a half oyster?
- Peel and reveal
- Cut C and D posts
- Make vertical relief cuts just in front of B posts where roof will fold
- Fold roof down towards floor
What is the process for stabilising a car on its roof?
- Step blocks under roof
- May need blocks near A posts too
- Paratech on each side towards rear of car and connect to each other
- Remove step blocks
What is the process for a B post removal?
- Peel and reveal
- Cut bottom of B post (as low as possible so it doesn’t sit higher than the seat)
- Cut top of B post
What is the process for tunnelling through a car on 4 wheels?
- Remove/open boot
- Remove bottom of back seats
- Cut out foam if seats cannot be removed
- Fold back rest of rear seats down or remove completely
How do you open a boot using the locking mechanism?
- Break rear glass into boot of car
- Pull plastic away from boot lock section
- Figure out locking mechanism (wire to pull/ lever to switch/ wheel or cog to turn)
