![]() ![]() Place your spreaders into the gap that you have created near the latch. The goal for this movement is to create space for the victim and produce an opening near the rear door latch without separating the door panels. If this spread is too close to the latch or toward the rear of the door, the angle of spread is more significant and increases the likelihood of separating the outer door skin. I have found that this spread should be performed at about the midpoint of the door assembly. ![]() This will help immediately pull the inner door material away from the victim and create a purchase point for access to the latch. Place your hydraulic spreaders into the window opening and ensure that your upper tip captures the roof rail and not just the door rail. Gain access to the rear door latch by spreading the rear door window. The following is a step-by-step progression through a rip and blitz with some tweaks or key points that we have found to be helpful on newer vehicles. To sum it up, we need to implement new strategies to cut through the high-strength steel and to help the tips of our tools to bite into the body material and not slip. Additionally, we are seeing hardened body steel and high-strength alloys or aluminums that are being used on body panels. This includes vertical posts, roof rails, cross bars between the roof rails and posts, rockers and doors. The structural system around the passengers and driver is basically becoming a high-strength steel roll cage. Reinforced or high-strength structural steel is not just improving in strength, but is also being added to more locations within vehicles. We are always chasing the progress of the automotive industry and we can only hope to be prepared by constantly researching and learning. Modern vehicle technology keeps evolving and is always challenging extrication tools and techniques. Unfortunately, you’re 15 minutes into it and you’ve been slowed down by the vehicle material not reacting the way you expected it to. You start your extrication and things aren’t going as planned. This would often result in a “rip and blitz” or a side removal technique in which we would start at the rear door and finish with both doors and the B post folding out and away from the vehicle on the front hinges. Victims are entrapped in both the front and rear seats, and you need full access to the damaged side. You arrive on scene, and you’re confronted with a 2017 four-door sedan that has been T-boned by another vehicle. ![]()
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