Emergency Rescue Shoring Techniques, 2E

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1. An Introduction to Emergency Rescue Shoring Concepts

• Emergency Rescue Shoring
• Rescue Shoring Operations Objectives  
• Concentrated versus Distributed  
• Basic Rescue Shoring Points  
• The Shoring System  
• Shoring Operations: Start-Up Considerations  
• Shoring Size-Up: Additional Information  
• Lumber 
• Length-to-Diameter Ratio 
• Nails 
• Wedges 

• The Shoring Team 
• Large Operations 
• Training for the Rescue Shoring Firefighter  

3. Setting Up Your Shoring Operations 

• Classifying Your Shores 
• Nails 
• Cutting Table 
• Marking Lumber for Cuts 
• Multiple Lumber Cuts in One Pass 
• Cutting Sheets of Plywood 
• Wedges 
• Prefabricated Headers and Posts 
• Diagonal Braces and Raker Shores Angles 
• Determining the Angle of Raker Shores 
• Calculating Load Weights 

4. Interior Rescue Shoring Procedures 

• Interior Shoring Size-Up 
• The Diagonal Brace 
• The T-Shore 
• The Door Shore 
• The Window Shore 
• The Horizontal Shore 
• The Laced-Post Shore 
• The Plywood Laced-Post Shore
• The Vertical Shore 
• Two-Post Vertical Shore
  

5. Exterior Rescue Shoring Procedures 

• Exterior Rescue Shoring 
• Load Transfer 
• Raker Shores 
• Bad Angle Cut 
• Splicing Rakers 
• Raker Bracing Systems 
• The Flying Shore

6. The Shoring and Cribbing of Sloped Surfaces 

• The Sloped–Floor Shore
• Sloped–Floor Shore Type 3 on Ground 
• Sloped–Floor Shore Cross Bracing and Angles 
• Box Cribbing

• Triple “T” Shore
  
• Four-Post “T” Shore
  
• Beveled Raker for Leaning Wall  
• Thinking Outside the Box  

• Hand Tools 
• Tool Assignments

• Hand Tools 
• Electrical Tools 
• Battery-Operated Tools 
• Initial Shoring Toolbox