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Advanced Rescue by DIMERSAR delivers NFPA-aligned technical rescue programs across Canada for Fire Departments, Police Services, EMS providers, SAR teams, and industrial emergency units.
Our instructors are active responders and multidisciplinary specialists with real-world experience in rope rescue, water rescue, ice rescue, confined space, USAR, and disaster operations.
Check out some of our incredible clients.
Our programs are battle tested, trusted, proven, safe, professional and designed for operational excellence.
Although many know us for training Fire Departments we’ve trained all emergency services and the military. We have also trained major Police agencies including The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), The York Regional Police, Toronto Police, Hamilton Regional Police, Niagara Police, Peel Regional Police, and so on. Also EMS and Paramedic organisations like Toronto EMS and their Special Operations team, The Special Operations and Tactical Teams of York Region EMS, and others, and numerous fire services and municipal departments.
How long have we been doing this?
Let's just tell you a story. We won an RFP. When we sat across from the Chief and his deputies we discovered that we taught him when he started his career! (We was a year from retirement!) We have been supporting emergency services for decades!
Rope Rescue, is the foundation discipline of most tech rescue subjects. We teach this subject frequently and year around. Here we are teaching another the municipal fire department how to rescue from height in an urban environment from building structures and height using rope and a extricate a patient in a litter. We also often provide this in a Wilderness environment as well as the Wilderness Search and Rescue per NFPA 1006.
Here we are teaching The Peel Regional Police Marine Unit - Flood and Water Rescue, which is especially amazing when you consider how highly capable this specialist team are already!
Here we are teaching Swiftwater Rescue to Haldimand County Fire Department, one of the largest volunteer Fire Departments in Canada with almost 300 members.
Surface Water Search and Rescue is one of the 7 water disciplines in NFPA 1006 (Ch 17) 2021 edition and here we are teaching members of the Newfoundland NLSARA of SARVAC.
Here we are teaching OPG (Ontario Power Generation) Fire and Emergency Response teams Confined Space Rescue with Supplied air and SCBA and Air Monitoring.
Here we are teaching International disaster Response team ERTSAR (The Emergency Response Team Search and Rescue) to to rescue from collapsed Structures (USAR)
Here we are teaching how to rescue from ice and snowy environments to NFPA 1006. This was the Indigenous IFNA Regional Fire Rescue and Sioux Lookout Fire.
This is a specific program we developed over 20 years ago and have continuously improved and updated it. It appropriate small fire response and remote communities.
We can teach the full suite of Firefighting services according to required standards depending on the specific discipline and we use all the appropriate checklists / sign off
We teach wildland firefighting as well as WUI (pronounced Woo-Wee) or Wildland Urban Interface Operations and are compliant in several established global standards.
We often get asked if we do other NFPA or Fire Rescue courses and we do. We do provide many of the NFPA suite of standards in a training course including 1001, (as well as SFS or Small Fire Suppression which is not specifically an NFPA aligned course), or Wildland Fire or Command Officer, Instructor, etc. Some clients also want specific components or bespoke subjects taught, so we will also do that.
Here is a list of some industries and typical course offerings. However we have also been asked to provide custom or bolt on training for some organisations. As a professional training and certification service we can review any part of your trainiong and help improve the delivery and retention and therefore the performance of the organsation and your staff or members.
Tactical Rescue
Tactical Medicine
Interventions
Embankment recoveries
Elevated patient access
Rappel Master / Rope Rescue
Rope access for suicide and prevention
Person in distress response
Evidence-safe victim removal
Use of Force
Special Ops
Technical Rescue
Tactical Rescue
Patient access
Rope, Ice/water rescue
Medical integration
Confined space casualty care
Patient Packaging
Complex Rescue Extrication with medic oversight
Person in Distress
Remote and Disaster Care
NFPA aligned
Rope Rescue
Ice Rescue
Water Rescue
Confined Space
USAR / Collapsed Structure SAR
USAR programs
Municipal Depts
Full Tine, Volunteer and composite FD
Industrial & Private Fire Depts
Delivered nationwide.
SOP / SOG Development
Special Ops
Technical Rescue
Rope Rescue
Self Rescue
Lineworker / Electrical Line Person
Tactical Medicine
TCCC (Tactical Combat Casualty Care) /TacMed
Fast Roping (Speciality Course)
Rappel Master and Rope Rescue
Special Projects Safety Services & Stand By Ops
Intl Disaster Management and Response
Emergency Response
Managing Hydro-meteorological Emergencies
Setting up an Emergency Response Organisation
Preparing for Earthquake Response
Creating a flood response program
Leadership Development
Construction and Safety Programs
Water Safety and Rescue Course
Working around various hazards
University Research in extremes (Heat / Cold / Ice etc.)
Company Leadership and Management Development
Recruiting, Screening, Selection and Training Staff
Policy development
NFPA Aligned Programs
Our courses follow relevant and established NFPA standards and we have original materials to deliver our flagship training and certification programs
Real-World Instructors
Instructors are professionals including SMEs and serving active or former Fire, Police, EMS, and SAR personnel with decades of operational experience to share and you just can't get anywhere.
Multi-Agency Expertise
Specializing in high level programs for Police, EMS, Fire, SAR, Military and industrial responders. We have been at the top of our game for decades
Dependable standard
Our high level professional clients know they are part of a select community who depend on a high credible standard for over 4 decades. That's us!
Impressive Experience
Our top Instructors have decades with one serving almost 50 years as an Instructors and still at the top of his game!
Insured and Permitted
We carry all Permits, Insurances and Governance to provide our professional services
Professional Forensic Experts
We have Instructors who have given expert witness testimony as subject matter experts and we stand by our safe and professional services
Delivered Anywhere
Remote, northern, municipal, Indigenous, industrial — we train where you need it.