SOCC Rescue

08/24/2026

⚕️New Training Launch: Paramedic Trench Rescue Awareness & Paramedic Confined Space Awareness 💉

SOCC Rescue is proud to launch two new awareness-level courses built specifically for paramedics, Tactical, Flight medics, and prehospital providers.

Trench and Confined Space incidents are some of the most dangerous calls a paramedic can respond to, and most EMS training never covers them.
These courses are designed to close that gap: how to recognize the hazard, control the scene, and know exactly when and how to call for a specialized rescue team, before you or your patient becomes a second victim.

✅ Aligned with NFPA 1006 (2027), Awareness Level
✅ Built by a career Fire Captain and Critical Care flight paramedic
✅ Real case studies drawn from NIOSH investigations
✅ Certificate of completion for every learner

This training is awareness-level only. It does not authorize trench or confined space entry, and it doesn't replace your department's or agency's rescue-qualified personnel, it teaches you how to keep yourself and your patient safe until they arrive.

https://soccrescue.learnworlds.com/home

Available now at soccrescue.com.

07/04/2026

Paratech University Paratech Fire & Rescue Equipment with SOCC wrapped up June 27-28 in Saint-Paul, New Brunswick, just outside Moncton.

Two days of heavy lifting airbag operations and structural collapse/shoring, classroom instruction the first morning, hands-on skills the rest of the course.

Thank you to Saint-Paul Fire Department for hosting and being excellent partners throughout. Thank you to Fire Safe for their support as Paratech’s East Coast distributor, equipment support like this is what makes courses like this happen.

Building technical rescue capability on the East Coast, one course at a time.

SOCCRescue

06/09/2026

When a trench collapses, the first company on scene can’t dig them out. But what you do in the first few minutes determines whether anyone gets out at all.

Scene isolation. Hazard recognition. Getting the right resources moving. That’s the awareness level job, and it matters.

Trench collapses don’t wait for you to figure out soil types.

Trench Rescue Awareness, NFPA 1006 aligned. Covers soil behavior, collapse mechanics, scene size-up, isolation, and technical rescue activation. Built for firefighters, officers, and candidates.

Awareness level. Not rescue operations. The course is explicit about what personnel can do, and what they must not.

Awareness-level trench rescue training aligned with NFPA 1006, focused on hazard recognition, non-entry discipline, and early decision-making.

05/08/2026

Just wrapped up nine great days with Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency — five days of Heavy Vehicle Rescue, followed by a Trench Rescue continuing education block focused on narrow trench shoring.
Highlights from the heavy side included Paratech strut systems, high-pressure airbag operations, and a city bus lift using low-pressure airbags — massive lift, zero crib resets. Right tool, right result.
Halifax is building something special in Heavy Rescue. This team is becoming one of the strongest programs in the region.
Big shoutout to Ruggles Towing for their support on the training ground and Sean Dewitt for covering the training. Halifax Professional Fire Fighters

04/30/2026

Proud to deliver this week’s Heavy Rescue for the Fire Service training to Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency’s rescue companies — great group of professionals who take technical rescue seriously. A big thank you to Ruggles Towing and Recovery Services for their outstanding support. Paratech Fire & Rescue Equipment Halifax Professional Fire Fighters Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency

04/25/2026

Your crew arrives on scene. Worker down in a below-grade vault. One way in. The guy at the opening says his buddy just "went down fast" — no warning, no noise, nothing.

The space looks fine. The air looks fine. He's right there — two steps down, arm's reach away.

That's the problem.

Trench collapse gives you a visual cue. Confined space atmospheres give you nothing. No smell. No colour. No warning. You walk in and you don't walk out.

The majority of confined space fatalities aren't the original victim. They're the people who went in after them — because nothing looked wrong.

Awareness-level training doesn't make your crew a technical rescue team. It gives them the knowledge to:

Recognize a permit-required space before anyone approaches Understand why atmospheric hazards kill without warning Stop the instinct rescue before it creates a second victim Request the right resources immediately

The hazard you can't see is the one that kills you.

Confined spaces are everywhere your crews respond — municipalities, utilities, construction, industrial. Your next call could be today.

SOCC Rescue — Confined Space Rescue Awareness | Online | Self-paced | NFPA 1006 aligned



Link here: https://soccrescue.learnworlds.com/course/confined-space-awareness

04/23/2026

Your crew gets dispatched to a reported worker down in a trench. You arrive on scene. The hole is 10 feet deep, the walls are unsupported, heavy equipment on the lip and there's a second worker still inside trying to help.
What does your crew do?
If the answer is "figure it out on arrival" — that's a problem.

Trench incidents are fast, high-consequence, and unforgiving. Secondary collapse is the leading cause of rescuer fatalities. Without awareness-level training, the instinct to help becomes the mechanism of a second victim.

Awareness-level trench rescue training doesn't make your crew a technical rescue team. It gives them the knowledge to:

Recognize collapse indicators before entry
Control the scene and keep untrained bystanders out
Request the right resources immediately
Not make it worse

That last one saves lives.

Construction season is here. Trench incidents don't wait for your department to get trained.
SOCC Rescue — Trench Rescue Awareness | Online | Self-paced | NFPA 1006 aligned hashtag hashtag .https://soccrescue.learnworlds.com/courses

03/27/2026

Paratech University – Moncton Area

2 days, hands-on training.
• Vehicle stabilization
• Airbags and lifting operations
• Strut systems and basic rigging
• Structural shoring
• Integrated scenario work

Focused on system familiarity and controlled decision-making during lifting and stabilization tasks.

Paratech University is a two-day hands-on event using the most current heavy lifting, shifting, stabilizing & building shoring techniques.

03/19/2026

"There's a guy in there."
FF1 enters the manhole without scene control. Overcome in seconds.
Now it's two victims. FF2 is already moving toward the hole. Does he become victim three?
This is how confined space incidents kill firefighters. Not from lack of courage — from lack of control in the first 60 seconds.
Awareness-level training doesn't teach entry. It teaches your crews to recognize the hazard, stop the cascade, and hold the scene until the right resources arrive.
Most departments have a confined space gap. Most don't know it until it matters.
Link Here: https://soccrescue.learnworlds.com/course/confined-space-awareness

03/15/2026

Look at this photo carefully.

Unsecured spoil piles on both sides. Standing water. Excavator surcharge nearby. Rescuers inside with no shoring.

This is exactly why Trench Rescue Awareness training exists.

The first crew on scene has one job — don't make it worse. That means recognizing what you're looking at, establishing control zones, and keeping people out of the hole until the right resources arrive.

Not every department runs a technician-level trench team. But every department responds first.

Trench Rescue Awareness is now available online through SOCC Rescue.
✔ NFPA 1006 (2021) Awareness Level aligned
✔ Self-paced, online
✔ Built and beta tested by some of the top technical rescue practitioners in North America
✔ $40 USD per seat
https://soccrescue.learnworlds.com/course/trench-rescue-awareness-nfpa-1006-aligned