# 1970s FIRE DEPARTMENT PARAMEDIC RESCUE & SEATBELT FILM " COLLISION RESCUE " JAWS OF LIFE 68784

This is a 1970’s era, color movie, presented by the Film Library, Department of Human Resources. The film opens with a family of four packing the car for a picnic, 0:15. The family buckles their safety belts and gets on their way, 1:04. Another car is show coming down the road quickly with two younger drivers; a girl and a boy; she seems to be distracted with her radio 1:25. Scenes of a car crash keep quickly coming on the screen, 1:40.The boy kisses the girl and takes his eyes off the road, 2:00. The man in the first car turns his head to talk to his kids and there is a bad collision, 2:16. Los Angeles County emergency vehicles arrive at the scene, 2:31. All the victims in both cars are lying unconscious, 2:28. The fireman first plug up the leaking gas tanks from one of the cars lying on its side, 3:04. Electrical cords and battery wires are disconnected from one of the cars, 3:15. Firemen use tools to open the car doors, 3:35. A Hurst branded machine aka jaws of life is used to pry the metal open of one of the cars, 3:48. The fireman explains he needs to cut the roof off to one of the victims who is barely conscious, 4:04. The roof is removed and doors are pried off with heavy machinery, 4:44. The young couple is removed from the car, 5:04. The family of 4 is removed from their car, 5:38. Chains and other devices are used to break the steering wheels, 6:36. The victims are stabilized and put on flat boards, 6:55. The police arrive and take a report, 7:21. The firemen…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/68784-collision-rescue-vwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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