Firefighter Carries and Drags – Part 2 The Hasty Chest

The second firefighter drag and probably the most popular is the hasty chest.  This drag is completed by simply wrapping a girth hitch across the firefighter’s chest and under his arms with your webbing, then wrapping the extra webbing a couple of times around your gloved hand to allow for a good strong hold on the drag.

girth hitch under the arms

Rodeo wrap around hand to secure position

The next tool that uses the same method, but is commercially made, the ‘Sav-a-Jake.’  It consists of two pieces.  First a piece of webbing with two biners on it and a ‘y’ piece of webbing with two pull handles and a connection pointon the other end.  It can be integrated into the DRD or locked under the armpits and then snapped on to the pull handles.  It can even be run through the shoulder straps as shown on their website.

If you’re interested in sav-a-jake, you can click here to find out more about their product with additional uses for this simple but effective tool.