Vehicle Extrication Levels I & II: Principles and Practice, First Edition

Vehicle Extrication Levels I and II: Principles and Practice is a Jones and Bartlett (J&B) Public Safety Group manual, a first edition, and SkillsTrain imports and distributes it locally as part of the Action Training Systems (ATS) rescue instructor-resources range. It covers both extrication qualification levels, Level I and Level II, in a single text rather than splitting them across two books, which suits a department running one combined extrication pathway.

The manual correlates to ATS's ten-title Vehicle Extrication video series, which works through Incident Overview, Stabilization, Hazard Control and Safety, Initial Procedures, Door and Sidewall Procedures, Roof and Trunk Procedures, Interior Procedures, Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, Advanced Steel, and Hand Tools Only, all relevant to NFPA 1006, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standard for technical rescuer professional qualifications.

J&B also publishes a separate title, Vehicle Rescue and Extrication: Principles and Practice, in a revised second edition. ATS lists the two as distinct products, and the exact content difference between them is not detailed in SkillsTrain's research files, so a department choosing between them should check directly with the publisher or SkillsTrain before standardising on one.

SkillsTrain's role is to bring the current edition to Africa, not to write or accredit it. Who it is for: services building extrication competency across both levels in one text, rather than running separate Level I and Level II manuals.