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Permalink Reply by Amber Podsaidlo on January 23, 2009 at 4:38pm

we do a lot of stair drills have them run up and down stairs in full gear, gear races, go over trucks, in summer take a truck out and have them pull out the speed lays and charge them and do target practise and we call it.

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Permalink Reply by tyler on January 26, 2009 at 7:25pm

yeah i need some too, also team building exercises would be good. theres a lot of tension

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Permalink Reply by Keegan Allen on February 10, 2009 at 11:08pm

here are some drills we have done on my local junior fire department.

1. air pack training
2. to get water out of a truck
3. to run pumpers
4. search and rescue
5. car extraction training

Our local fire department also does many control burns. We put a ad in the paper for farmers who would like there ditch to be burnt off and then they would give our junior fire department a donation. We burn old corn cribs also. If anyone has any questions plz add me and email me back on here and i will give u more info.

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Seabolt on February 12, 2009 at 6:27pm

My department has a very well ran junior program. As of now we have 4 active junior firefighters and the way we look at it is if you find something for the juniors to do around the station and even on calls it keeps them interested and as we all know the juniors are the future of the fire service. Here are some helpful drills for juniors. first is teaching them the basics of setting up a rehab center on a fire scene, because rehab is a critical asset on a fire scene. Another good idea is teaching them traffic control when on a fire scene . Directing traffic is a very good thing for juniors to do . Also teaching them how to speak on a radio and that to will help better them when directing traffic. And one of my favorites and probably a good tip is getting them familiar with the locations of all the tools and equipment on all of the apparatus that your department uses. With these tips and ideas I hope you may be able to take them and use them but before doing anything always remind yourself and the juniors that SAFETY is the biggest thing to practice while doing anything .

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Permalink Reply by Denise Co 29 on February 12, 2009 at 8:34pm

The most important is teach safety. Make sure they know how to use their SCBA properly, inspect the SCBA, PPE that it meets requirements. Seatbelt saftey. Equipment proper usage

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Permalink Reply by Childressfirefighter36 on March 1, 2009 at 10:22pm

Well, I'm a Chaplain on our department, and also the head of drills. We participate with we rest of the firefighters. We did a response drill last Tuesday, because our response wasn't as good as it should be, that and rope rescue drill. If you have the right equipment. But we are a small town this picture is our Tankers doing a shuttle drill. A shuttle drill is to fill up fold-a-tanks to supply the pumper with extra water to fight the fire.

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Permalink Reply by torrey9 on March 2, 2009 at 7:13pm

i agree, go over the truck.....

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Permalink Reply by METALHEAD on March 2, 2009 at 7:18pm

do whatever you can to get familiar with trucks, gear and tools. The more you can relate to later, the better it is when u become an active member. good luck

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Permalink Reply by Zachary McCreary on March 23, 2009 at 6:41pm

I am also a Fire Explorer Captain/Chief/President and any agility course is fun for me.

I enjoyed any Search and Rescue excersises. The denver drill was a good one as well.

Any SCBA work you can get in, like heavy work while breathing air (from the BA obviously) is always fun and a learning experience

EMS is always good info as well as said in earlier posts.

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Permalink Reply by Marty Hrinko on April 17, 2009 at 9:40am

As a junior what we do to train... We make a High Rise Pack out of 100" of 1 3/4" and we do what we call 10's...It is where you run up and down the stairs 10 times.

We also practice donning our gear and also donning an Air Pack in under 2 miniutes.

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Permalink Reply by Brock Crawford on June 2, 2009 at 7:09pm

This may sound stupid but we begin by going over the trucks as a refresher, then have to name everything in them without looking. Then we all go into our meeting room with a portable while the training officer is in the bays by the truck. He then calls out the station number and gives information on the call and what is needed like the dispatcher does. We have to run up to the bays get our gear on and pull what ever equipment we need of the truck. While were doing that were being timed and have to get it all done in under 5 mintues. We do that over and over switching up what each person does. Once we get the hang of that (its usualy takes about a month to learn what all we would have to do) we move on to changing the bottles in the airpacks. Were expected to be able to change one in 1:00 flat. The fastest i have ever done it was 30 seconds and that was after months of practice. As you train with the same guys you learn who does what best so when you get to a call you can decided on the way that whose hitting the hydrant, who's hooking the lines to the truck, and who is getting equipement and things ready for the guys going in.

Another thing we do is take the trucks out into our parking lot, put on full gear and packs, and practice pulling preconnects. While we have the lines pulled we go over interior operation such as hose patterns, how close you should be to the guy infront of you and most importantly comunication between the attack and search crew, as well as the officer in charge and the person running the engine, and for us its the 2 in 2 out rule. Meaning if 2 guys go in then the same to guys have to come out if something happens or someone panics and has to get out.

Once we get the hang of interior operations we begin to move onto search, mostly what tools the search team is supposed to have, how to search a large diameter room, and to never enter a structure to search for a victim until the attack crew is fighting the fire.

Next we learn about ladder placement and proper use, how to tell if a ladder should be taken out of service, proper placement for ground ladders, (always to the right of the roof ladder if one is being used that way if the roof ladder comes free of the peak the chances of it knocking the ground ladder over are low) and how to tell if a ladder has been placed at the right angle to the structure. (If placed properly you should be able to stand straight up on the bottom rung and your should be able to rap your hands around the run infront of you) Remeber to always ladder all 4 sides of a structure at a window incase the someone from the attack or search crew needs to make a quick escape. Also remember to let the crews know the location of the ladders.

We will then go over ventilation, what tools to have, how to sound a room to see if there are weak spots or the fire is moving under you, and how large of a vent hole should be cut.

The final and easiest thing is overhaul, how to tell if the fire is still burning and where it is burning at. You should be able to hear in moving through walls and cellings as it sounds similar to a train.

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Permalink Reply by Paul J. Storke, Jr. on June 22, 2009 at 1:13am

I used to be the Jr. Capt. in my department and a training that my Jrs liked was doing "rit" we would smoke up an old factory that was given to us for training hide one of the seinor firefighters have him radio a may day activate his pass device and have a team of jrs go find him dientangle him and remove him from the building. This can also be done in station by turning out the lights and haveing the jrs put on their hoods on backwards and haveing them feel their way to the down ff rather than useing the smoke.

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