RIGLOO INFLATABLE SHELTERS, EMERGENCY SHELTERS, AMBULANCE SHELTERS, EMERGENCY SHELTERS, MEDICAL SHELTERS

RIGLOO IN POLICE ACTION – POLICE SHELTERS

Every year there are fatalities or serious injuries on the hard shoulders of European highways. Governments often advise drivers to exit their vehicles and go to a safe place behind the guardrail. Options for adverse weather conditions are often not mentioned. RIGLOO can assist both the victims of an accident and the authorities in bridging the wait. RIGLOO products protect and keep victims warmer by providing a fully sealed shelter that protects against wind and weather. During emergencies of many types, it is important to have a shelter immediately available. It should be easy to transport and quick to set up. Such mobile rescue shelters also provide medical safety zones for first responders.

RIGLOO IN USE BY EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS & PARAMEDICS – AMBULANCE SHELTERS, MEDICAL SHELTERS

A shelter is a tent used to temporarily house and treat patients in a Pre-Hospital phase. Mobile rescue tents provide medical safety zones – protecting patients and rescuers from curious onlookers and wind and weather is the goal. By controlling the environment, RIGLOO can help reduce the number of patients with prehospital hypothermia (defined as a core temperature below 36.0 °C). This is sometimes observed in patients admitted to the emergency department for whom the rescue process was complex due to a difficult and lengthy rescue, infusion of cold resuscitation fluids, weather conditions, age, or critical health condition. RIGLOO ambulance tents are used in this process to triage as well as treat the lightly injured, severely injured as well as dying.

RIGLOO IN HUMANITARIAN USE – REFUGEE SHELTERS

With the RIGLOO Refugee, there is a shelter tent that is precisely designed to meet the needs of refugees. The purpose is designed for temporary use. It does not serve as a permanent shelter but is mainly designed for the actual escape. It protects refugees from wind, cold, and weather. Thanks to its extreme lightness, it can be carried over long distances and can be used wherever camps are not or cannot be set up.

RIGLOO IN TECHNICAL RESCUE OPERATIONS – RESCUE SHELTERS

In technical rescue and sometimes also in locating, heavy or even sensitive technical equipment is used. Hydraulics, electronics, or even batteries may require protection. It is ideal here, too, if this equipment can be protected from wind and weather. Thanks to the openable RIGLOO floor, the protective tent can easily be placed over the equipment. Of course, the shelter can also be used to protect people and animals.

RIGLOO IN USE BY MILITARY AND ARMY – ARMY SHELTERS

Also with the military and army, there are often moments in which increased protection is required. Either for injured persons or also for protection against wind and weather. RIGLOO has developed its own product for this purpose. The ROGLOO Defender is designed for the needs of armed forces and is available in 2 camouflage variants. A white camouflage variant for snow and a green one for summer.

RIGLOO IN USE BY FIREFIGHTERS – FIRE SHELTERS

Also in fires, both small and large, there is an increased need for protection for rescuers and victims. Here too, on the one hand for protection from onlookers and on the other hand for protection from the elements. RIGLOO shelters can be a valuable support for rescuers and help to provide initial treatment to those affected in a protected situation. In an emergency, such as an accident or fire, speed can also save lives. Fire departments, volunteer fire departments, and youth fire departments need a fast, easy, and reliable solution.

RIGLOO IN USE BY MOUNTAIN RESCUERS – WEATHER PROTECTION SHELTERS

Especially in hard-to-reach locations, it is important to protect injured people from the elements, even over a longer period of time. It is not always possible to rescue immediately. Transport is difficult or protected locations may be too far away. RIGLOO shelters offer the optimal solution to bridge the time until effective rescue.

RIGLOO IN USE FOR CIVIL DEFENSE AND POPULATION PROTECTION – CIVIL DEFENSE SHELTERS

RIGLOO Rescue shelters have been developed with the cooperation of Civil Defense and Civil Protection, specifically for their use and needs. Flood disasters, earthquakes, storms. Unfortunately, such destructive natural events are to be expected even more in the future. Rescue forces in the field of civil defense, civil protection, and disaster control have to reckon with victims and people with increased protection needs. This does not always require large and heavy shelter systems, but small flexible, and quickly deployable solutions, which are also easy to use by everyone. With RIGLOO, all organizations are optimally equipped and can offer help and security to those affected at short notice.

RIGLOO SHELTERS IN CIVILIAN USE

Is it advisable to have a RIGLOO shelter in the car? Basically yes, although it must be said that it is used less in central European situations. But it is different when you leave the highways and travel in areas where immediate help cannot be expected at any time. So on journeys far away from civilization or when winter sets in. RIGLOO does not require much space and offers you additional safety. RIGLOO shelters are also used at mass events such as concerts or sports competitions for Pre-Hospital Care.

RIGLOO SHELTERS IN INDUSTRIAL USE

Our shelters can also be of great usefulness in an industrial environment. This can include, for example, the visual protection of injured persons in a factory environment until professional rescue equipment arrives. RIGLOO can also be used in a construction site environment, for example, to carry out shaft work. Thanks to the removable floor, you are optimally protected during sewer work.

RIGLOO SHELTERS IN CONSTRUCTION USE

Have you considered offering your employees and craftsmen who work outdoors every day a more protected and safer workplace? For example, when doing sewer work or working in pits? Frost, snow, and rain are major delaying factors on many construction sites! Too much rain can lead to interruptions in earthworks on cables, pipes, and sewers, and the work performance of employees is not the same in freezing cold as it is in pleasant temperatures.