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‘This kind of training will save lives’: Firefighters in Louisiana learn techniques for lifting heavy vehicles

VIDEO: Serious crashes involving heavy vehicles like 18-wheelers can pose a challenge for emergency responders and anyone trapped inside. To help save a life, firefighters with the St. George Fire Department are training every day this week by going through a series of scenarios. The training comes after a year of complex and difficult rescue operations last year, including one from April that took responders three hours to pull a truck driver out and to safety in what the Central Fire Department calls their “most complex rescue operation in decades.”

WAFB-TV CBS 9 Baton Rouge

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