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Dolton and regional fire departments run trench‑rescue drills at Public Works
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Dolton Fire Department and mutual‑aid partners conducted trench‑rescue and sidewalk‑collapse drills at Dolton Public Works as part of a CART monthly training series. Exercises focused on stabilizing trench walls, using trench boxes, and coordinating multi‑agency rescues for two simulated victims.
Dolton — Dolton Fire Department and mutual‑aid partners from Park Forest and Calumet City ran coordinated trench‑rescue drills at Dolton Public Works as part of the Combined Area Response Team’s (CART) monthly training series.
The drills, trainers said, simulated scenarios common during public‑works operations: an initial training scenario introduced by Captain Pete McCain and a second exercise led by Lieutenant Adam Farri that replicated a sewer and sidewalk collapse trapping a worker under roughly 100 pounds of wet dirt. "Today was our second trench rescue training with the combined…
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