Over 25 Detroit-area first responders smashed windows, deployed airbags and cut up vehicles at Butler’s Collision in Roseville, Mich. recently, kicking off the National Auto Body Council’s (NABC) Fall schedule of First Responder Emergency Extrication (FREE) training sessions.
Hosted by National Auto Body Council members, the FREE program provides local first responders across the country with unique, valuable instruction and hands-on extrication practice specifically on late-model vehicles with complex airbag systems, sophisticated electronics and high-strength steels.
“We are dealing with a whole new car, high strength steel that poses a little bit of a different problem. Now we are dealing