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Epix ResQ builds competent technicians, not certificate holders. Hands-on technical rescue training led by a SPRAT Level 3 rope access technician and California State Fire Instructor with 16+ years on real incidents.
Instructor
SPRAT Level 3
Rope access technician
Certified
CA State Fire Instructor
Rope, confined space, tower
Deployed
US&R CA-TF8
Rescue, swiftwater & logistics specialist
Class size
8–14 students
Every student on rope
Most training gets a team through the sign-off sheet. That is not the same as being ready. Epix ResQ teaches rope rescue, confined space and vertical access the way they actually run on scene: real anchors, real edges, real problems, and enough repetitions that the skill is still there six months later.
We pull from fire service, industrial rope access, and search & rescue, so your team learns the technique and the reasoning behind it.
Courses
Each course builds on the one before it. Start where your team is, or run the full progression over a season. Every course can be delivered at your facility or a site we arrange.
A 40-hour training that gives personnel the knowledge and practical skills to recognize, assess and safely operate at incidents involving rope rescue systems and high-angle or steep-angle environments.
A 40-hour course that prepares emergency responders to perform advanced technical rope rescue operations in high-angle, steep-angle, vertical and difficult-to-access environments.
Prepares emergency responders to safely perform technical rescues involving communications towers, utility structures, antennas, industrial towers and other elevated structures.
A challenging, hands-on workshop that takes the experienced rope rescue technician to the next level by developing advanced personal rope access and rescue skills.
Prepares rescuers to safely and effectively perform technical rescues in confined spaces, with hands-on skills in hazard assessment, patient access and packaging, rope systems and retrieval systems.
We write custom rope rescue and confined space programs around your hazards, equipment and standards.
Build a custom courseFewer students. More rope. Better technicians.
Donald Chen is a working firefighter, rope access technician and US&R team member. What you learn in class is what he is using on real incidents, not what a curriculum said ten years ago.
Silos, towers, vaults, tanks, cliffs, shafts. Tell us what your team responds to and we write the scenarios around it, using your equipment and your standard operating guidelines.
Fire service, industrial rope access and technical rescue each solve the same problems differently. Blending them gives your team more than one way out when the first plan will not work.
Courses run at your facility or a site we arrange around the area, so your crew stays in service and you are not paying travel and lodging on top of tuition.
The lead instructor
A professional firefighter and rope access technician with more than 16 years of technical rescue and training experience. A background in collegiate athletics and a life spent climbing, diving and mountaineering means he teaches performance under load the way he lives it.
Every one of my people got hands on training. That does not happen in a forty-person class. Working with Donald was a game changer for our team.
Request training
Send the basics and Donnie will come back with a recommended course, a realistic timeline and what it takes to run it at your site.
Prefer email? donnie@epixresq.com