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Champion Rescue Tools' new free extrication training DVD will be launched at FRI 2009 Video teaches new technology vehicle extrication featuring latest Volvos & SUVs Champion Rescue Tools, the leader in next-generation, hydraulic rescue tools able to quickly cut apart the safest, 5-star crash-rated vehicles, and Volvo Cars of North America continue to demonstrate their mission to keep vehicle passengers safe and help firefighters save lives. Their jointly-sponsored Five Star Extrication Training Academy proudly announces the upcoming national release of its latest free new vehicle technology (NVT) extrication training tool for firefighters: the Five Star Crash Course training DVD. This NVT extrication training DVD features the latest new vehicle construction, unusual materials, updated extrication techniques, the most advanced hydraulic rescue tools and safety. To date, the Five Star Extrication Training Academy has trained thousands of firefighter training officers and their departments in the latest techniques and tools to speed extrication of victims of serious accidents involving the safest, 5-star crash-rated vehicles. This unique training tool will be introduced, and handed out free, to qualified fire fighters at Fire Rescue International 2009 in Dallas, Texas, August 25 - 29 at Champion's exhibit booth # 2343. Attendees of FRI will not only be able to receive this free training DVD at Champion Rescue Tools' exhibit booth, but also to meet and talk with the Five Star Extrication Training Academy's nationally recognized fire service instructors. "Champion's no-cost Five Star Extrication Training Academy has received great acclaim and attention from fire departments around the country," said Alan Discount, Champion Rescue Tools' CEO. "Our mission is to save lives; and the huge interest in our free training academy made us realize the best way to train more firefighters in the best techniques and tools to get victims out of 5-star crash-rated automobiles was to make our training academy classes available at no cost on DVD." "Every day victims of serious accidents in 5-star crash-rated vehicles wait while many fire departments use obsolete tools to cut through the tougher metals used in new vehicle technology construction," said Carl Haddon, Champion's National Training Director. "This waiting time is crucial in the ‘golden hour' fire fighters have to extricate injured accident victims and get them to needed medical treatment. Our hope is that the new information provided in our Academy classes and this DVD will help firefighters work more effectively and safely when dealing with accidents involving newer, 5-star crash-rated cars." "Volvo has been thrilled to provide in excess of $700,000 of new cars this year alone to help firefighters learn more about new car construction and how to be successful in quickly performing passenger extrications," said James Hope, Senior Manager Product Communications for Volvo Cars of North America. "By partnering with Champion Rescue Tools and a variety of additional sponsors that make up the Five Star Training Academy, we have been able to help train firefighters, and indirectly save more lives - which is one of Volvo's core values. In fact, in an effortto further expand the distribution of this much-needed training information, Volvo will be posting the Five Star Crash Course training DVD on its website and its blog, after its debut at FRI."

Champion Rescue Tools will showcase a new Volvo SUV extrication training vehicle at FDIC Specialist in rescue tools will show new training vehicle at FDIC Champion Rescue Tools, the leader in next-generation, hydraulic rescue tools able to access the passenger compartments of the safest, 5-star crash rated vehicles, will showcase a Volvo XC90 cut-away SUV in the company's exhibit booth (#422) at the FDIC conference in Indianapolis from April 20-25, 2009. The Volvo XC90 extrication training SUV displays new vehicle technology (NVT) construction in one of the safest cars on the road today. The XC90's cut-away skin is peeled back in strategic places to show the interior details of door and roof post construction, as well as other safety features of the SUV. This interior view of the passenger compartment provides firefighters with crucial information to improve vehicle extrication techniques in five-star crash rated vehicles. "The Champion and Volvo partnership to train firefighters in the best NVT extrication techniques will come to FDIC this year," said Alan Discount, Champion Rescue Tools' CEO. "The fire service is facing serious difficulties extricating victims of auto accidents when using obsolete extrication tools on NVT. Champion and Volvo are continuing to work together to provide firefighters with the information, tools and training to save lives." "Volvo's increasing participation in Champion Rescue Tools' training efforts has already resulted in hundreds of fire fighters in California learning how to cut apart Five-Star crash rated automobiles with the latest technology rescue tools," added Carl Haddon, Champion's National Training Director. "Firefighters who participated in our free Five-Star Extrication Training Academy classes were amazed how quickly Champion's rescue tools cut through the toughest parts of new Volvo cars." To see Volvo's XC90 cut away SUV and Champion Rescue Tools' next-generation vehicle extrication tools, visit Champion's booth at the Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC) in the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis April 20-25, booth #422.  

Champion Rescue Tools has moved to new, expanded corporate headquarters Expanded facility includes 5-star extrication training academy Champion Rescue Tools, the leader in next-generation, hydraulic rescue tools able to access the passenger compartments of the safest, 5-star crash rated vehicles, announced it has completed its move to a new, expanded corporate headquarters. The new facility includes executive and administrative offices, product assembly and warehousing, and both classroom and hands-on training facilities for the new company-sponsored 5-star Extrication Training Academy. The 10,000 square foot headquarters is located at 814 Berry Court, Upland, CA 91786. "Champion's sales continue to grow rapidly requiring us to move to a significantly larger corporate headquarters," said Alan Discount, Champion Rescue Tools' CEO. "We were extremely pleased to find a location that both met our expanding administrative and production needs and provided a west coast base for our new national training academy which will commence in January 2009." Champion Rescue Tools (www.championrescuetools.com) is the technology leader in next generation, hydraulic rescue tools for the first responder. The company's patented line of vehicle extrication tools is proving to be the most effective and efficient tools to remove victims of serious vehicle accidents, particularly in the safest cars being manufactured today. Founded as Patton Hydraulics in 1978, the company has built specialty hydraulic tools for a variety of industrial applications for customers including GM, Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Honda, and Chrysler.