On March 25, 2017 the Thornwood Fire Company along with AAA Emergency Supply participated in a Train-The-Trainer course of our personalized Rescue Escape System. The course consists of several hours of instruction followed by a series of practicals. Prior to this training, we had nine qualified trainers to instruct this course in house. We now have a total of 18 instructors. The system is used as a personal rescue device to be used in emergency situations where the only way to save our own lives is to "bailout" a window from a home or high-rise. We hopefully will never have to deploy this system but it is required to be re-certified every year to remain an "Interior" firefighter. The system is a pouch containing 50 feet of webbing, a descender and a hook. Firefighters are trained to tie off safely and deploy the system as well as digging the hook into the window sill and deploying the system. Once a firefighter has done so, he bails out the window head first and hangs on to make sure the system is properly in place, then fully exits the window at which point the firefighter can descend to safety. This system has been used by the Thornwood Fire Company and many other fire departments throughout the county since 2010. We would like to thank AAA Emergency Supply for their assistance in training new instructors to carry out our program. Pictures of training below.