Principles of Passenger Vehicle Extrication 5th Edition

IFSTA's Principles of Passenger Vehicle Extrication, 5th Edition gives rescue personnel an understanding of the challenges, techniques, skills and equipment needed to safely free victims trapped in passenger vehicles, and SkillsTrain is the authorised distributor importing and supplying it into Africa. As of this edition, it is now a standalone book covering passenger vehicles only, with heavy vehicle extrication separated out and sold by IFSTA as its own title.

The manual teaches extrication by vehicle position and orientation, following the same sequence a rescuer actually encounters at a scene, from size up through to disentanglement, and this edition includes new skill sheets and updated steps intended to make the content more usable for both student and instructor. It covers the job performance requirements of Chapter 8, Common Passenger Vehicle Rescue, of NFPA 1006, Standard for Technical Rescuer Professional Qualifications (2021 edition), referencing NFPA 1670 where relevant, and the content also exceeds the Firefighter II extrication requirement set out in NFPA 1001, so a service can use it to cover more than one qualification need from a single text.

Because passenger vehicles make up the bulk of everyday road incidents a rescue service responds to, this title tends to be the first extrication manual many departments add to their library, with the heavy vehicle title following once that additional capability is needed for larger incidents.

Who it is for: firefighters, EMS (Emergency Medical Services) personnel, law enforcement, and industrial and transportation emergency response teams. SkillsTrain supplies this as IFSTA's own published work and does not write or accredit it.