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In attention causes Captains foot to become caught in ladder
Sunday, July 19, 2009 
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I Heard the scream of my captain. On June 6 at 11:30 a.m. the fire dept was having group training, one group was at the 105ft rear mount quint. The quint was across the street from the station parked on a flat street and no objects in the way, far as power lines or buildings. There were 2 captains one probationary and the chief training officer at the quint. The rest of the firefighters were in front of the station. One female captain was at the tip of the ladder the other captain was at the controls on the turntable with the probationary ff. The ladder was 75ft out at the time, low angle. The captain at the tip had taken her feet off the foot rest's and put them one rung up, so that made her toes stick down through the rungs. The captain on the turntable did not realize she had done this, as he took back controls he then started showing the probationary what each control did. the first control moved was the retract. The two captains did not communicate to each other to see if it was ok to move the ladder. As the captain retracted we heard this scream from the captain at the tip of the ladder, my foot, my foot. Another inch and her foot probably would be detached. So the foot was pinched (in the middle of the foot) the ladder had to be extended a couple inches to release the foot. I was in front of the fire station when this happened and assisted in getting the captain of the quint while others got the squad ready. The training chief was at the rear of the truck and witnessed this.

Lessons Learned: If you get bored of your training don't show up. This fire captain said she got bored and moved around and lack of communication. Let the engineer know your moving around



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