No Wes, we don't have drills on how to extract a driver.
As turn workers, we sometimes may not have the luxury and neither do the drivers, of waiting for Safety/E-Crews to arrive.bottles.......
That would have to be a really really bad situation, Lynn. If you've ever watched Ricky Lee and his crew extract a driver from a car who has suffered serious injuries and is unconsious it has to be handled with great care and knowledge. Furthermore, at that stage, there's a total disregard for physical well being of the car. i.e. parts and panels are removed with great vigor to give them the best leverage to carefully remove the driver and typically takes 2 to 4 people to do it properly. You're talking about lifting and twisting 150 to 200 plus pounds of 'floppy' hewman body.
FAR better for the drivers safety for the Turn Workers to do EVERYTHING possible to suppress any fire, with bottles, dirt, sand or clothing/blankets and leave the driver in place until an E-crew arrives. But if necessary, rip the car apart to get him out... sure.
If it's that desperate a situation, a 'semi' real extraction in the paddock that wouldn't damage the car or driver in the paddock won't be very realistic.
How many of our workers actually have
fire resistant gloves? I do. Old set of drivers gloves but they are pretty well shot. Gonna get a new set from Amadillo soon. One thing that would be VERY GOOD is if, ALL ICSCC drivers would
donate old driving gloves when they buy new ones to the workers. Could be
passed out at the workers meetings.
On the other hand, Ricky used to run 'drills' for his crew at Pacific once a year. Particularly when Jason had an old hunk of a stock car chassis at the track Ricky could use. Haven't seen him do that in a while.
.....We also should have a refresher course on the use of fire bottles, eh?
Refresher on bottles would be GOOD. Haven't been through fire suppression school since I left the Navy. But I do remember the basics
It should go beyond pull the pin, point and squeeze. Actual demo with a fire on the paddock is required to really understand. Again, something Ricky or Ken could demo some day maybe even during lunch when drivers could see it too.