Hovercraft Training
Centers and Neoteric Hovercraft will be featured at this year’s FDIC (Fire
Department Instructor Conference). The world’s largest firefighter conference
and expo - attended by 35,000+ firefighters, chiefs and instructors from more
than 53 nations - takes place April 24-29 in Indianapolis at the Lucas Oil
Stadium and Indiana Convention Center.
If your department
still relies on ropes, boats and other apparatus for water, ice and mud
rescues, you’ll definitely want to visit us at Booth #2704 and …
1) Watch videos of
hovercraft rescue operations by HTC-trained pilots
2) Fly a remote-controlled
hovercraft.
3) Get answers to all
your questions about rescue hovercraft and pilot training.
4) Register
to win one of three FREE Hovercraft Flight Training Courses, valued at $1,575 each!  |
| The Hovercraft Training Centers / Neoteric Hovercraft booth at last year's FDIC. |
Flat bottom Jon boats
and other watercraft are of questionable use in shallow water, swiftwater,
flood, ice and mud rescues, and they can be seriously dangerous to you and to
the lives you’re tasked to save. Come see how a Neoteric rescue hovercraft can greatly improve the safety, ease, speed and
success of your rescue operations … while keeping you above the danger – not in it.
It quickly flies you into areas where no other vehicle can go, and it’s the
only hovercraft with the ability to brake and back up.
But don’t just take
our word for it. See what HTC-trained first responders around the world say
about their Neoteric Hovercraft in comparison to other rescue vehicles …
Council Bluffs Fire Department, Iowa:
Central Fraser Valley
Search & Rescue Society, Canada:
"The hovercraft
gets us into areas that, before, we weren't able to reach, areas that our jet
boat can't get into because we ingest debris into the impeller. And the hovercraft
saves us a lot of time."
North Muskegon Fire
Department, Michigan:
"Our
hovercraft have saved more lives that all our fire engines combined. Since
1985, more than 255 people have been rescued from Muskegon area lakes using the
hovercraft. More than half of them would have drowned not having the hovercraft
as a safe rescue tool."
Mansfield Fire
Department, Texas:
"The benefit of
having the hovercraft is we do not have to send our personnel into the water to
retrieve victims. It can also hover over logs, car tires and any other debris,
unlike boats, that could be a hazard in the water. A hovercraft is the answer
to a faster rescue - a safer rescue."
Davis County Sheriff's
Office, Utah:
"Our hovercraft,
without question, has saved lives. Much of our county is covered by the Great
Salt Lake, and when the water is low it leaves miles of mudflats boats can't
reach. We can't get airboats out there. When it's extremely windy it's hard to
get an aircraft or helicopter out there, and even walking out is impossible. We
were putting rescuers in harm's way, but the hovercraft allows us to hover over
mud, ice or water and get right to the patient - to literally reach out our
hand and pull them out."
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