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NABC’s Program Provides Firefighters with Crash Course on How to Cut Up Complex Vehicles

October 4, 2017 By CollisionWeek Editor

The National Auto Body Council (NABC), Caliber Collision and State Farm teamed up with the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety to host a special First Responder Emergency Extrication (FREE) training program for 75 firefighters representing 14 fire and rescue companies throughout Virginia, Maryland and New York.

Greg Brown (center) of State Farm, which donated late-model vehicles for NABC’s First Responder Emergency Extrication program, works with first responders at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

NABC’s training program is designed to provide specialized instruction on the safest, fastest way to extricate accident victims from vehicles constructed with today’s high-strength materials and

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