Looking For Some Training Ideas

small town vol dept looking for some ideas for training 27 members with 7 that FF I trained and 5 EMT -B s and 2 EMT-P's looking something that will get everyone from age 21-65 invovled run aprox 100 calls a year combined ems and fire . thank you in advance for your ideas

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Permalink Reply by Cody Patrick on November 15, 2011 at 5:01pm

When in Doubt revert back to the basics. Engine Copmany Ops are always good, Area familiarzation, Maps and such

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Permalink Reply by Cody Patrick on November 15, 2011 at 11:12pm

For area familiarzation/map, take a map with your boxes/mutual aide boxes and cut it up into a bunch of pieces like a puzzle and have your personel put it back together

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Henderson on November 17, 2011 at 10:22pm

Hands on is definitely the most important. I also like a good table top style that you can go over scenarios or review calls or just cover other training topics you may not be able to train with when ever you want (forcible entry methods). There are also a bunch of videos you can find on firerescue.com, firehouse.com, fireengineering.com and youtube. If you have FF1 trained personnel then definitiley train to that level and use them to help the lesser trained/experienced personel.

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Permalink Reply by Sherm421 on November 28, 2011 at 11:28pm

In our department, the chief has a drill that he loves to use when were not in the middle of maintnance or "just standing around." He will pick someone at random being probie, officer, paramedic, any one is a target. we are to choose one tool which can be any piece of equipment, interior tools, medical, R.I.T, whatever u feel like.....etc... we are to give a 5 minute class on this piece of equipment to everyone who is there. after about 5-6 minutes everyone is usually chimed and given there personal input on how they have used this tool , situations and diffrent views on how use it in the future. we do this three too four times every meeting and training session. it has become a great tool for the whole department, sharing views and opinions on what we use on a daily basis. give that a try and see how it works for you.

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Henderson on November 29, 2011 at 6:28pm

That sounds like a good idea. Probably gets their minds thinking huh.

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Permalink Reply by Titus D Carter on November 29, 2011 at 10:37pm

Andy, great idea with ballons. I was a state fire instructor with the Georgia fire acdemy for 10 yrs, never seen that it sounds good and I'm sure it works. (wish I thought of it).

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Permalink Reply by Nick Wettlaufer on December 7, 2011 at 2:25am

I have just recently became Captain on a paid on call fire department with one other new captian and my sr. capt i have been working with for a while. our department is unique currently we have a temp on call chief and only three paid staff(the capts.) we do alot of hands on training and i would like some ideas i can bounce off my other captains

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Permalink Reply by James Burton (Jamie) on December 7, 2011 at 6:53am

I replied to this post a while back, and since then I built a Denver Drill that we can assemble/disassemble when needed, then store it away, my guys have used it about three time now and they love it, they even started a competition to see who could remove the downed FF fastest.

Also for this year I made a survey that I passed to all members of my Department with various training ideas and Firefighter skills, I asked them to be honest and grade there weakest skills, and tell me and my Captain what they felt we as a training crew were missing, we got some great feedback and it helped a lot planning for the 2012 schedule of drills......I was surprised somewhat with some of the basic skills, like ladders and ropes and knots that the guys said they felt they needed more training on....

Knowledge is great, experience is crucial, Training will save your life......Train as we Fight