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The List of Extrication Apps

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Is there is an app for that?  If you are looking for an extrication app the answer is yes!  You can download Hybrid Auto Extrication Guide for free or subscribe to the flagship extrication app, iCRS for the cool price of $499.99.  However, don’t let price tag for iCRS scare you.  Moditech, the makers of iCRS, just released and iPhone app for just $14.99 with an Android version in the works.  Did I miss one?  Let me know and I’ll add it!

Extraction Zones
  • Extraction Zones LLC was founded by Adam Weiss, a Firefighter in Las Vegas, NV. and his partner Michael Forte, an Entrepreneur located in Austin, TX.The extrication tools used by first responders are extremely powerful and essential to saving the lives of car collision victims. The situations that these men and women find themselves in is next to impossible for an average person to comprehendThe Extraction Zones app provides location information for airbags, seatbelt pretensioners, electric and propulsion systems, as well as structural reinforcements for many of the most popular cars on the road as well as most hybrid vehicles. Users can view this information all at once or only view pertinent information by hiding components as needed. Extraction Zones also provides an alternative night mode for darker surroundings.
Hybrid Auto Extrication Guide
  • Field Applications, LLC, is a group effort. Their products are designed by firefighters and paramedics, graphic designers and software engineers. Cal Blake is the founder. He has worked as a first responder in California since 2006.
iCRS Standard USA
  • Moditech Rescue Solutions B.V. designed the Crash Recovery System (CRS) 10 years ago to solve this controversy between safety and accessibility. Now the CRS made its way to the iOS platform. With the iCRS app, rescue relevant technical vehicle information in regards to restraint systems, reinforcements, propulsion systems are available at your fingertipsSpecially developed for emergency responders, iCRS provides an invaluable source of information. After selection of the right model from the comprehensive database, iCRS shows an interactive top and side view of the vehicle, indicating the exact location of rescue relevant equipment in various color schemes. Additional information can be displayed to indicate how to safely disable these systems during rescue operations.
  • Know whatʼs inside! iCRS enables emergency resonders to:
    1. Access a comprehensive database including all airbag equipped passenger cars available in North-America.
    2.  Latest technology included (hybrid, electric and fuel cell vehicles, new airbag technologies and advanced steel reinforcements).
    3. Quick and easy access to all rescue relevant vehicle information.
    4. Access deactivation information to disable the propulsion and restraint systems within seconds.
    5. Base extrication plans on the actual vehicle equipment to save valuable time.
    6. Database updates available every other week.
Opel Rescue Cards
  • Opel is placing the information for some 60 models from 1991 to present on a mobile portal that can be used on any smartphone which has access to the Internet. This free mobile service is available in 10 European languages[1] and enables rescue crews to access important information instantly. An eleventh language, Turkish, will follow shortly.
Posted by on November 30, 2011 • Filed under: extrication, rescues, special-operations, technology-communications, Training • Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

New Extraction Zones Pro Version App

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I received an email I’ve been waiting for since posting Extraction Zones, an Extrication app for your phone!  The app called  “Extraction Zones” that was only available on Apple products in April is now updated  and consists of a new Pro version app which has an 300% increase in the number of vehicles.   The best part for me and all other Android users?  It is also now on the Android market, and Android Tablets.  I just bought the Extraction Zones Pro App at a very small cost of $4.99 for my Android.  So regardless of what type of smart-phone you have, go download a very useful extrication app that is made by a firefighter for firefighters!

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Offical Press Release from Extraction Zones, LLC

Extraction Zones LLC. has released a second more complete version of the successful original version.  The new version is called Extraction Zones Pro which features an additional 150 vehicle makes and models.  This addition has increased the original Extraction Zones databank of vehicles by over 300 percent.  Extraction Zones Pro builds upon the success of the original version with the addition of entire production lines from many popular manufacturers to enable firefighters, EMT’s, and other first responders to know exactly how to perform vehicle extrication with maximum safety and efficiency.  Having this database of knowledge in their hands while performing vehicles extrication procedures is crucial to their safety and the safety of the victims they are rescuing.  

The vehicle schematics allow the user to immediately see all dangerous areas of concern that they are attempting to avoid.  The application also features accompanying notes, specific to the model, providing additional helpful information such as the amount of time the high voltage lines or the SRS system will continue to carry a power current after being disengaged.  

Reviews of Version 1 indicate this is an invaluable tool providing immediate information without losing vital seconds at a vehicle accident scene. 

Available as a download to the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch (requires iOS 3.0 or later) or any Android powered smartphones or tablets. 

 

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Posted by on November 1, 2011 • Filed under: extrication, special-operations • Tagged: , , , , , ,

Extrication Smartphone App Update!

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Rescue CardsI posted almost a month ago about the Hybrid Auto Extrication Guide by Field Applications, LLC.   I received an email over the weekend from the founder of Field Applications, Cal Blake.  Cal informed me that Hybrid Extrication Guide. Version 1.1 has just been released.  This update includes improved schematics from Moditech and updates for all 2011 Hybrid models.  So grab your on iPhone, Android, and or iPad and make sure you update your app and download it if you don’t have it!

Other smartphone extrication apps are

If you are still look for more fire/EMS apps check out Rhett’s post over on the FireCritic.com; Android Applications for the Fire & EMS Service.  If I missed an extrication app, please let me know so I can add it!

Posted by on May 19, 2011 • Filed under: extrication, special-operations • Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , ,