The City of Seattle and the Port Cranes which are a favorite playground for these workshops. RTR and Seattle Fire have gained access to these spectacular venues in the past: The Seattle Space Needle, Seahawk and Mariners Stadiums, Columbia Center, Seattle Port Cranes.

Beautiful downtown Seattle on Puget Sound with the Port of Seattle ship cranes in the foreground

RTR Lead Instructor, Greg Sobole, teaching the intricacies of the AZTEK kit to students in Seattle Fire TSRW (Team Skills Rescue Workshop) in 2011. Greg works for Seattle Fire and is stationed at the Technical Rescue Station on "Ladder 7". 

Tandem gin pole and A frame Arizona Vortex set up by the skilled Seattle Fire Ladder 7 crew lead by Captain Frank Brennan. RTR Assistant Instructor, Keith Thorne, at age 15 is on right in yellow helmet getting ready to be "victim"

Mike Milner of Seattle Fire Ladder 7 is the attendant for this evolution where 15 year old RTR Assistant Instructor, Keith Thorne was scooped up in litter and transported up through rectangular opening, then across platform to A frame and then skated to the ground. Note tandem frames (gin pole on right and A frame on left) with the Arizona Vortex using only one kit. 

Evolution using the Arizona Vortex in tandem high directionals on the Seattle Port Cranes in 2005. RTR Assistant Instructor, Keith Thorne, at age 15 is in the litter as "victim" for this evolution

One of our favorite venues in Seattle is the famous Space Needle

This operation in a contract program for Marysville and Seattle Fire in 2005 used the Seattle Space Needle as a training venue. Here students erected an Arizona Vortex as an easel A frame to do the edge mitigation on the Needle's "Halo" which was very fargile and easily damaged

Ladder 7, Captain Frank Brennan. All photos by Reed Thorne 2005 and 2007.

A rescuer pick off from the 996' high Columbia Center in downtown Seattle in 2002.

Ladder 7 working off of the largest Port Crane with Arizona Vortex in 2007. The Port of Seattle Cranes are a structural playground for these industrial rescues. 

The Seattle Fire Department Rescue 1 Ladder 7 crew posing after the RTR course in 2007. Frank Brennan is in red helmet. Instructor Reed Thorne with Hawaiian shirt in back row.

Working at the Mariners Baseball Stadium with the Arizona Vortex in 2007 course with RTR.

Arizona Vortex gin pole being used in evolution on the Seattle Port Cranes in 2005. Notice all the AZTEKs in use to hold the gin pole. The newer RTR-designed Omni AZTEK pulleys with the swivel built in have replaced these older non-swivel pulleys since this photo was taken

Using the Seattle light rail construction site for rescue work in 2007. This 200' deep air shaft is under construction and being used for a deflection line offset pick off of the victim against the wall on left.

Another closer up

300' long tracking line offset with Seattle Fire TRT at Fish Ladder on the south fork of the Stilliguamish River outside of the little town of Granite Falls, Washington

Working at the Mariners Baseball Stadium with the Arizona Vortex in 2007 course with RTR.

Climbing structural steel on "lead" at the Seattle Seahawk Stadium during the RTR 2012 TSRW (Team Skills Rescue Workshop)

Now RTR Assistant Instructor, Keith Thorne in 2005 at Seahawk Stadium walking the beams at age 15. Learning the Ways of a Jedi Master at a young age!

One exercise involved the use of the Seattle Fire Dept fire rescue boat below the Seattle Port Cranes. 15 yeqr old, and now RTR Assistant Instructor, Keith Thorne, is haning below ready to be scooped up in the litter by an SFD TRT member in 2005. Keith is only 15 at the time this photo and those to follow was taken

15 year old RTR Assistant Instructor, Keith Thorne has just been scooped into the litter as members of SFD look on from waiting rescue boat

RTR Assistant Instructor, Keith Thorne, spent much of his childhood in a litter or situation to get rescued

Once again, 15 year old RTR Assistant Instructor, Keith Thorne is descending over the edge of Seahawk Stadium to be another "victim" for a Seattle Fire Fighter in 2005

A tracking line offset was used in 2005 to practice a pick off of then 15 year old and now RTR Assistant Instructor, Keith Thorne, the professional victim for RTR in the early days