GrimpDay 2009 - Technical rope rescue competition
15 Oktober 2009
Technische Rettung
GRIMPday is an international, multidisciplinary technical rope rescue competition which takes place every October in Namur.
The fourth edition was a face-off between 23 teams, from Belgium, France, Great Britain, Switzerland and Germany. The participants were firefighters, soldiers, police officers, rescuers, etc. All are members of GRIMP - Groupe de Reconnaissance et dIntervention en Milieu Périlleux (Reconnaissance and Intervention in Dangerous Environments Group). In teams of six and observed by evaluators, participants carried out a series of practical exercises on a timed and graded course: vertical evacuation of a victim, Tyrolean traverse, rappelling, underground progression, stretcher evacuation on a hill, etc.