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ROSEVILLE CALIFORNIA VENUE SPOTLIGHT Meet the Instructors: Greg Powell - Reed Thorne Click on the photos to enlarge them
The venues offered here in Roseville are some of the best around, as they are exciting in exposure, difficult by nature and great outdoor classrooms with much stimulus. The student will get to know the WHY of the course in the classroom and then get to apply the HOW in the field. We feel that by teaching in safe environments is essential in the initial format of the class, it builds to a crescendo by the end with full exposure and the student will be able to respond to the situation with confidence. Training at this higher level is paramount in our philosophy, because we believe that by learning in more complex situations inevitably, makes the real thing much easier when the time comes. We truly feel that you will leave the class on that 7th or 8th day with a sense of satisfaction and the knowledge to feel competent on your next training or rescue. Remember this: “Knowledge is light in the rucksack, and not easily left behind”. (Quote by Arnor Larson) Roseville Fire Department has hosted RTR courses near Sacramento, California since 2004. Each year, RTR and RFD have rotated various programs through this venue which offers some of the most breathtaking rescue and rigging mediums avaialble. So far, they have offered the STRW in 2005, the IRW in 2006, the TSRW in 2007 and the PSRW in 2008. Here, we have spotlighted three of the best venues available to students enrolling in Roseville courses: Forest Hill Bridge Auburn Limestone Quarry WAPA - SMUD Towers Roseville Power Plant (Energy Park) The Forest Hill Bridge is the major attraction for Roseville. It is spectacular and certainly NOT for the faint at heart! Being 730' high, it is California's highest highway bridge. The Auburn Limestone Quarry is also delightful in its rugged shear cliff faces which are up to 300' in height. Here, studentsw learn the intricacies of placing artificial high directionals on a difficult edge. At WAPA (Western Area Power Administration) and SMUD (Sacramento Municipal Utility District) students get to work on de-energized power transmission structures hundreds of feet in the air. Even, in some cases walking the wire as shown. (WAPA is used only in the STRW or IRW RTR programs). The Roseville Enerfgy Park is a state of the art peaker plant which burns natural gas. The site is clean and almost new. Here students will enjoy a clean and accessible vanue for personal and team skills. All three of these offer a rich variation in medium from which to work. First climbing on structural steel then changing to rock and stone makes for a true learning experience. Join us in Roseville! Contact Scott Bye of the RFD for more information.
FOREST HILL BRIDGE VENUE
The Forest Hill Bridge outside of Auburn, CA which is 730' high above the Middle Fork of the American River and is California's HIGHEST BRIDGE! (and the third highest in the USA). Here, students practice lead climbing 700' above the American River during the Personal Skills Rescue Workshop in 2008.
		Here, students practice lead climbing 700' above the American River during the Personal Skills Rescue Workshop in 2008.	Becky Cordova lead climbing the FHB
Scenes from the Forest Hill Bridge outsiide of Auburn, California. Left: Student on lead with RTR instructor Scott Bye as belayer below. Middle left: The American flag courtesy of Captain Tom Briggs in SA frame evolution. Middle bottom: The Arizona Vortex Multipod® Omni Foot (left) and Raptor Foot (right). Far right: The Arizona Vortex Multipod® gin pole being used for litter evolution over the hand rail.
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AUBURN LIMESTONE QUARRY VENUE
Left: Two separate operations at the quarry with an Arizona Vortex gin pole (foreground) and a twin guyed SA frame (background). Right: Fire fighter Darrell Coates attends litter up over edge with RTR instructor Scott Bye as edgeman.		Reed Thorne hanging out on the edge smoking his pipe
More work being performed at the quarry. Left: Students from Japan practice edge transitions from an Arizona Vortex Multipod® easel A frame. Middle: RTR instructor Scott Bye checks rigging on an SA frame. Right: A difficult edge transition on sloping rock under an SA frame.			The Seven Minimalist Rescue Archetypes being performed at the Roseville Fire Training Center
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WAPA - WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION and SMUD - SACRAMENTO MUNICIPLE UTILITY DISTRICT VENUE
Reed Thorne and Becky Cordova on 500kv dead end at WAPA. Becky getting ready to ride the conductor	Scott Bye walking the bundle on 500kv lines at WAPA during STRW in 2005	Huge power transmission lines which are all de-energized make the perfect for playground for STRW students. Right, Scott Bye stands watch at WAPA.
Lowering off the wires after a team-based rescue of linemen at WAPA	Mid span conductor rescue by students during 2005 STRW at SMUD yard.	Rope rescues from SMUD towers using pick off techniques and litter techniques. The SMUD tower linemen are also taught by Reed Thorne in separate courses
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