jaws of life
Crash rescue tool
The jaws of life is a hydraulic rescue tool used to pry apart wreckage, especially in car accidents.
Emergency responders use it to extract people trapped in crushed vehicles: Firefighters used the jaws of life to free the driver.
The name comes from its scissor-like mechanism and life-saving function.
Act of freeing
- trappedUnable to escape
- firefightersEmergency personnel combating blazes
- accidentUnintended harmful event
- survivorsThose still alive after
entrapment · wreckage · crash · search-and-rescue · collapse · extraction · disentanglement · liberation
Things that disp
- cuttersDevices for severing material
- ramsAdult male sheep
- hydraulicRelating to pressurized liquids
- poweredSupplied with energy
pneumatic · battery-powered · portable · handheld · pliers · shears · prying · breaching
extrication
Act of freeing
- trappedUnable to escape
- firefightersEmergency personnel combating blazes
- accidentUnintended harmful event
survivors · entrapment · wreckage · crash · search-and-rescue · collapse · extraction · disentanglement · liberation · release
spreaders
Things that disp
powered · pneumatic · battery-powered · portable · handheld · pliers · shears · prying · breaching · equipment
hydraulic
Relating to pressurized liquids
pumps · valves · actuators · cylinders · hoses · leverage · force · torque · compression · grip
911
Crisis response number
- sirensEmergency vehicle noisemakers
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- urgentNeeding immediate attention
triage · critical · stabilize · heroic · casualties · survival · medevac · intensive-care · victim · bystander
- fire stationsfirehouse, fire engines, fire hall, fire trucks, engine house
- crash siteswreckage, debris, emergency services, first responders, ambulance
- rescue toolsspreader, spreaders, pry bar, crowbar, axe
- hydraulic toolshydraulic jack, bottle jack, floor jack, hydraulic press, hydraulic pump
- Emergency MedicineEMT, emergency medicine, EMS, paramedic, paramedics
- firefightingfire station, fire truck, fire engine, firefighter, firefighters
jaws of lifejaws of death
Imminent mortal peril
death trap · guillotine · gas chamber · electric chair · gallows
jaws of lifecar crusher
Machine compressing scrapped vehicles
compactor · vice · trash compactor · hydraulic press · iron maiden
jaws of lifecutting torch
Flame tool that severs metal
car crusher · compactor · vise · clamp · press
life, jaw, lively, jaws, lifetime, lifestyle, afterlife, lifelong, livelihood