The Bariatric Sked Stretcher is designed to move obese patients through difficult areas with less risk of injuring your back. It is 4 feet wide, a full 12 inches wider than the ...

The Sked comes equipped for horizontal hoisting by helicopter or vertical hoisting in caves or industrial confined spaces. When the patient is packaged the stretcher becomes rigid.

The steep, icy trail forced rangers to rig rope systems and a sked rescue stretcher for the technical descent down Becker Hollow trail. They were back at the trailhead by 11 p.m. with the body of ...

The pups were bundled up in a SKED stretcher, crews began the long journey of carrying them back to safety. The hiker, a 41-year-old Jefferson man, was not injured and helped SAR team members with ...

A mother and her newborn were rescued from atop the Barnegat Lighthouse, and a third person was extricated from the towering structure after falling down a flight of stairs and suffered a femur ...

Crews put the woman on a "Sked" stretcher and hiked her off the mountain. ... it can easily lead to situations like what happened here," North Shore Rescue said in a statement.

An injured athlete is transported via rescue basket by a medical rescue team on skis at the European Youth Olympics Winter Festival 2017 on Feb. 15, 2017. Anadolu/Getty Images ...

The man was eventually lowered down from the roof on a stretcher after the incident on Saturday afternoon. Officers were called to reports of a man on top of a building in Greengate Walk, Stafford ...

BOISE, Idaho – The Idaho National Guard’s 101st Civil Support Team trained how to conduct ropes rescues with the Boise Fire Department Technical Rescue Team in October. The course, which ...

North Shore Rescue crews issued a warning over the weekend following a woman’s rescue from a West Vancouver trail. ... Crews put the woman on a “Sked” stretcher and hiked her off the mountain.