Capital Technical Rescue and Safety Consultants

08/25/2026

We love our Highnovate - rope access innovation RAFA Anchors and looking forward to playing around with these additions.

08/24/2026

For Rope Rescue Operations Graduates
Ready for the Next Step?

You've completed Rope Rescue Operations.

Now it's time to become a Rope Rescue Technician.

Join us October 5-9, 2026 at the world-renowned Petzl Technical Institute in Salt Lake City for an intensive Rope Rescue Technician program built around the Job Performance Requirements of NFPA 1006.

This isn't your typical rope class.

✅ Train inside one of the premier rope training facilities in North America
✅ Work with professional instructors from All Hands Fire Equipment & Training and Capital Technical Rescue
✅ Challenge yourself with real-world rescue scenarios
✅ Network with rescuers and rope professionals from across the country
✅ Hotel, breakfast, lunch, beverages, and snacks included

Whether you're a firefighter, technical rescuer, industrial rescue team member, or rope access professional, this program is designed to elevate your skills and confidence.

Spots are limited.

The question isn't whether you're capable.

The question is whether you're ready to step up.

📍 Salt Lake City, Utah
📅 October 5-9, 2026

🔗 Register: All Hands Fire Training Registration - link in comments below

08/24/2026

Advanced Rope Rescue Workshop

Technician Certified? Good.

Now Let's See What Else You're Capable Of.

If you've attended Rope Rescue Technician training or hold SPRAT certification, this workshop was built for you.

Three days.

One world-class training facility.

Countless opportunities to push your skills further than you've ever gone before.

The Advanced Rope Rescue Workshop blends rope rescue and rope access techniques into a fast-paced, hands-on learning environment designed for experienced rescuers.

Training may include:
• Advanced pick-offs
• Rope-to-rope transfers
• Fall arrest rescues
• Cross hauling
• Difficult edge transitions
• Tower rescue
• Confined space scenarios
• Small-team rescue challenges
• Introduction to ski lift and arbor applications

You'll train at the internationally recognized Petzl Technical Institute while learning from instructors who work in rescue and rope access every day.

This workshop isn't designed to teach fundamentals.

It's designed to challenge technicians.

Are you up for it?

📍 Salt Lake City, Utah

📅 October 6-8, 2026

🔗 Register: All Hands Fire Training Registration - link in comments below

07/23/2026

Back in Durham, NH — and this time the weather is a little better than when we were here in December for confined space rescue. 😄

CTR is proud to be back working with Durham NH Fire Department, this time delivering Surface Water Rescue and Boat Operations training for approximately 20 members across their four shifts.

Durham recently placed a new Maritime Boats rescue skiff into service, equipped with a rescue door on the starboard side, and they trusted us to help get their operators trained, familiarized, and more comfortable using it as part of their water rescue response capability.

Over the course of training, students are working through a wide range of water rescue and boat operation skills, including:
PPE and rescuer safety
Rescue sequence and decision-making
Throw bag and reach rescue skills
Self-rescue and survival concepts
Boat crew positions and communications
Boat handling and maneuvering
Man-overboard procedures
Victim recovery and parbuckling
Returning equipment and boats to service

It is always great to work with departments that invest in equipment, training, and operator confidence before the emergency happens. Thank you to Durham Fire Department for continuing to trust CTR with your technical rescue training needs.

And yes — teaching water rescue in July definitely beats confined space training in December.

07/22/2026

Training is essential when working at height—and that's why we're proud to be part of Petzl's global network of Petzl Technical Partners (PTPs).

For more than 20 years, Capital Technical Rescue has helped rescuers, industrial workers, rope access technicians, and emergency responders build the knowledge, skills, and judgment needed to perform safely and effectively in challenging environments.
From our dedicated training center in Albany, New York, we deliver hands-on, practical training that emphasizes real-world application, problem-solving, and continual learning.

We're also excited to be partnering with fellow Petzl Technical Partner All Hands Fire this October at the Petzl Technical Institute (PTI), where our instructors will be teaching advanced rope rescue programs together.

If you're looking to advance your technical rescue skills while training at one of the industry's premier facilities, learn more here:

🔗 Learn about October 2026 Rope Rescue Training at PTI in the comments below.

Thank you to Petzl for their continued commitment to training, innovation, and supporting the professionals who rely on these skills every day.

07/20/2026

The Work Behind the Work

As we wrap up another busy stretch of training programs and field operations, and start a whole new set, we wanted to take a moment to recognize some of the people who make it all possible.

Students see the ropes, hardware, tripods, rescue equipment and gear arrive on scene ready to go.

What they don't see are the hours spent before and after every class, exercise, and operation making sure that equipment is inspected, maintained, inventoried, cleaned, repaired, documented, loaded, unloaded, and returned to service.

These are the unsung heroes of technical rescue training.

The work of equipment management is every bit as important as the training itself. The best instructors and rescuers in the world can't do their jobs if the equipment isn't where it's supposed to be, ready when it's needed.

Recent classes and programs have pushed our inventory hard, and here is some of that behind-the-scenes effort as equipment is mobilized, demobilized, inspected, and repacked for the next mission.

A special thank you to O, who keeps the entire system moving. From maintaining our Scannable.io inventory and inspection program to tracking equipment status, service intervals, and deployment readiness, Joey helps ensure that Capital Technical Rescue is prepared to respond whenever and wherever we're needed.

The students and clients may never see most of this work, but we see it every day—and we appreciate it.

Thank you to Joey and everyone who helps keep the wheels turning behind the scenes.

Preparedness is not an accident. It's the result of disciplined work done long before the work comes in.

Anybody can use rescue equipment. The real challenge is making sure thousands of pieces of equipment are inspected, tracked, maintained, and ready before the next class or job comes in.

07/19/2026

Rope Rescue Operations – Day 4 | Bringing It All Together

Our final day of Rope Rescue Operations took us back to Mackworth Island, where students put four days of training to the test during a series of scenario-based rescue evolutions.

The scenarios challenged students to assess the scene, develop a plan, build appropriate systems, communicate as a team, and execute rescues in both low and high-angle environments.

One of the highlights of the day came courtesy of some island visitors who volunteered to act as witnesses. They quickly embraced their roles and even created their own backstory involving a friend who had enjoyed a little too much of the local nightlife and attempted a cartwheel that ended somewhere between the beach and a cliff edge.

Their creativity added an extra layer of realism and problem-solving for the students.

Throughout the day, students demonstrated the ability to bring together everything they learned during the course—anchor systems, edge management, patient packaging, litter operations, mechanical advantage systems, communications, and team coordination.

Back at the station, we wrapped up with several of our favorite "focus skill" sessions, exploring alternative ways to accomplish the same objectives. Often, that meant discovering that simpler systems and cleaner rigging can be just as effective—and sometimes even better—than more complicated solutions.

Great work by all involved and congratulations to the members of Falmouth Fire-EMS for their commitment to developing technical rescue capabilities.

07/16/2026

Day 3 – Rope Rescue Operations

Yesterday our Rope Rescue Operations students had the opportunity to visit Sterling Rope in Biddeford, Maine, for a behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's leading life-safety rope manufacturers.

The day began with a tour of the production floor, where students learned about rope construction, materials, manufacturing processes, and quality control. We spend time in class discussing rope construction and performance characteristics, but there is simply no substitute for seeing the process firsthand and speaking with the professionals who build the rope we trust our lives to. Students toured the facility while also learning about how rescue rope is designed, manufactured, and tested.

The learning didn't stop there. The remainder of the day was spent in Sterling's training center, where students worked through knots, AZTEKs, system failures, litter operations, pickoffs, knot passes, raises, lowers, and edge transition skills. The combination of classroom concepts, real-world manufacturing knowledge, and hands-on rescue training made for an outstanding learning experience.

A huge thank you to our friends at Sterling Rope for their hospitality, the use of their training center, the factory tours, and the opportunity to see rope manufacturing and testing up close. Nothing beats going straight to the source.

07/16/2026

07/15/2026

Day 2 – Rope Rescue Operations

Today the classroom gave way to the field as our Rope Rescue Operations students headed to Mackworth Island State Park to begin putting all their skills together in a realistic environment.

Working on natural terrain, students focused on low-angle rescue operations while building systems, managing edge transitions, and coordinating as rescue teams. Field training brings a new level of complexity and requires students to combine rope skills, patient care, communication, and teamwork to safely accomplish rescue objectives.

A great day of hands-on learning, problem solving, and skill development in a beautiful training environment.