Holmatro Extrication Training Seminar
October 4, 2003
Dan Crowbridge of Holmatro and Scott Slater of Santiam Emergency Equipment put on a very informative, hands on, extrication training seminar in Fortuna. Don Bowen, Matt Knowles, Terry O'Reilly, and Ray Ramirez attended the seminar and received hands-on experience using various Holmatro equipment to rip apart several cars and one bus. Thanks to Scott and Dan for providing their equipment, Fortuna Fire Department for putting the sessions together, and Eel River Disposal for the location, the cars, and the authentic crash styling they provided for the second session cars.
All photographs © 2003, Matt Knowles.
 "Before" picture of the Joy Bus |
 Interior, showing spacious bathroom |
 "Before" picture of our practice fleet |
 Scott's truck. There's displaying your goods, and then there's just plain showing off. Of course we all wanted a 6 foot pull out rack for our pickups after seeing this cool display. |
 Kids, don't try this at home. Scott getting ready to set off an airbag. |
 Sorry this one's a bit blurry, the explosion made the photographer jump. |
 Nothing but air. Drivers side airbag went up about 20 feet. |
 Starting work on the Joy Bus. That's "Bob" in the blue coveralls. |
 Actually that's Dan. (You had to be there.) |
 In case you need to remove the bathtub from your bus, you need a hole at least this big. |
 The Joy Bus after the first group finished off the right side. |
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 Cleaning up after our mess. |
 Hey, you throwing away that perfectly good set of wheels? |
 A bit of structural integrity has been lost. |
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