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I JUST STARTED WITH A SMALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT BECAUSE OF MY GRANDDAD. ME AND SOME OF MY FRIENDS WERE WOUNDERING IF ANYONE OUT THERE COULD SEND ME TRAINING, DRILLS, OR JUST ANYTHING TO HELP ME WITH TRAINING.

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Permalink Reply by David on November 3, 2008 at 8:56pm

We donned airpacks ran (walked) the Combat Challenege course to see how long air bottles would last. Ours were about the same results as Lt. Davis. Was fun noone got hurt.

Permalink Reply by Norman E. Flanders on December 2, 2008 at 11:09am

Hi Kenneth, I'll share with you the same thing I shared with Cameron Paus in his discussion. I have a few ideas that should help you in your quest for training ideas.

* I will get training ideas from FIREHOUSE.COM, FIREENGINEERING.COM, FIREFIGHTERCLOSECALLS.COM and other web sites. Great places for information and drill downloads.

* We do inter-department drills with our surrounding mutual aid departments. These have been very successful especially when it comes to RIT. My department hosted a RIT training class and exercise. We used a mobile home for training. Great place to train with confined space. We have also do SCBA training. It's unlimited as to what you can do.

* We have visited our local EMS/Mutual Aid Dept's. for training on their equipment. Covering vehicle layout, compartment contents, and vehicle operation. Great way for PR and interaction. Some day you may be asked to get a widget and you'll know where to find it.

* Each year we tour our local businesses and manufacturing facilities. Great for PR. We have also done simulated fires at some of these businesses. Have put FF in the buildings for search & rescue.
We do prearrange these with the business, go over our goals and plans. We give each business a guide sheet that covers the important stuff, { see below}.You be amazed at the positive responses and how happy they are that we take the time to tour and train at their facility.

* I even have had our surrounding mutual aid departments tour the key facilities in our town. This has been done for two reasons. One is for mutual aid response and the other is for mutual aid coverage. If they are covering my town I want them to be aware of where your going and what they may have to respond to.

* Table Top exercises. I have downloaded many photo's of fires, MVA's, etc. for training purposes. These photos are then assigned an incident type, given a location, what is available for equipment & manpower.....then you are the IC.
To make it more interesting another incident may be added while en route or while trying to control this one.
{ I have these for use if you want some.....see below}.

* Area Familiarization. Nothing is more important than "KNOWING" your own community. This should include street/road names, key points of interest, water sources; winter/summer supplies, local businesses, do you have handicapped residence that need special attention, do they have O2, ask your members to really look at your community and list what they see on the ride to work/home, share what they have listed, etc.

* Ask your local fire investigator to give a class on 'METH LAB AWARENESS or SCENE PRESERVATION" Very important items for the fire service. If you set up the class ask your surrounding departments if they have anyone who'd like to attend. Great for inter-dept. PR.

If you want any of the photos I've downloaded with drills e-mail me at nrs5f@comcast.net and I'll send you out a few along with the check sheet.

Best of luck in your quest to better train. Stay safe, train often and share knowledge. Happy Holidays to you and yours. Norm

Permalink Reply by Rob Odenwald on January 6, 2009 at 5:04pm

I sent a list of usefull websites with lots of training ideas. Fire Training Resource is especially helpfull. Good luck.

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Permalink Reply by sathyan on January 21, 2009 at 9:39pm

you are doing a very good job and also it needs the training which would be available in american fire fighting websites in plenty and you can refer this.
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sathyan

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Permalink Reply by Tony on January 28, 2009 at 7:34pm

I suggested this at my station, we did it, and it was a hit!!! Thanks!!!

Permalink Reply by Randy Fales on April 24, 2009 at 11:27pm

hey i just joined and i was looking around and i came across this discussion i know that you posted this a long time ago but i wrote down the websites that you posted and when i tried whitehelmet.com it came up something very weird. Did they change there web site do you know? and do you have any more good sites to go to so I can get some more ideas for training? By the way I'm Randy and I'm from Nyssa OR it you don't know where that is we are about 12miles south of ontario if you know where that is.

Permalink Reply by Russ Griffith on May 2, 2009 at 10:36am

A good drill I use when the weather is suitable for outside handline work is something we call nozzle ball. 2 teams,it works best if you invite a neighboring dept. to participate that way you put people from each dept. on a team. You stretch 2, 150" 1 3/4 handlines, one on each end of a 100 foot area, set a goal at each end of the course, you can use traffic cones for this, take a large inflatable beachball and fill it half with water and then inflate to just under full and place it in the center of the course. Each team of 2-3 Firefighters, in full turnous and SCBA position themselves on a handline, at the signal, we use the truck airhorn for all signaling, they must don their masks and go on air, signal for their line to be charged, bleed the air from their line, and adjust their water stream. They then advance their lines, aiming at the beachball,which is quite difficult to control due to the water and under-inflation, and try to get it through the other teams goal. During play, at a time chosen by whoever is running the training, two blasts of the airhorn will signal that each team must change nozzlemen,( you can also have them switch sides altogether, your choice), if someone on a team runs out of air the whole team must exit the field and a new team takes over, once a goal is scored the field is cleared and you start over from the beginning with 2 new teams.
This drill teaches team work,fire stream selection and control, air conservation practices,advancement of handlines,situational awareness, as well as water supply tacticts,( we are not a hydranted area therefore dump-tanks,tankers and a water shuttle are a "must have" part of the operation) plus it's an inexpensive drill and everybody has a good time.
Hope this helps, Stay safe
Russ

Permalink Reply by Glen on May 23, 2009 at 11:11am