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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 ee779 on December 3, 2007 at 10:53pm
There are some great training ideas posted at www.firehouse.com every day or so! There are also some good ideas posted as replys on Capt. Jenners post in the group.
Permalink Reply by N. Abbott on April 4, 2008 at 8:32am
If you and/or your friends can get ahold of some 2x4's and a sheet of plywood, you can make a very nice low profile simulator where you have to doff your air pack to get through the breach in the wall. The hole is 16"x18". My FD uses this for basic survival and to help train our guys to do Rapid Intervention. Comment me back and I'll get you the dimensions for one and try to get some pictures from the ones we have.
Permalink Reply by Engine 32 Capt. on May 26, 2008 at 12:36am
This is an easy drill that costs nothing but your time. Give it a shot:

Try This Drill
Permalink Reply by Lars Andersen on May 31, 2008 at 5:54am
What a great thing to do! I will use your trick at our fire department next week.
Permalink Reply by Louis N. Molino Sr. on June 1, 2008 at 11:47pm
Permalink Reply by Jim on June 28, 2008 at 10:26pm
For those of you looking for a simple, cheep, but challenging SCBA Drill. You will need 10 traffic cones. They can be set up many ways for a single person or team of two. Lets start with 8 cones in a square with number 9 in the middle. Decide which one you want to put the number 10 cone on top of. Cover the face mask with another hood or other means before placing the 10 cone. Turn the firefighter around to disorient. Do not let go of them until you have them on one knee at any of the cones. The goal is to find the double cone, remove one, and bring back to the original starting place. Cones should be spread out to where if toe is on one cone you can just reach another while spread out. If while they travel around the maze and they remove contact with one point before they have contact with another, that cone gets removed from the set up and it becomes, guess what, HARDER! This can be done on or off air. It will teach to save air while working at a reasonable rate by keeping time and amount used. It will teach maintaining contact. Train to picture where you are at all times. Teach to stay calm, when a PASS device goes off or the 1/4 warning goes off. Also to become comfortable with the space in there SCBA without being put into a small space. Others will find it to be very entertaining as well. This drill can be spread out further for two person team. There are many other options that can be done with the cones. Your imagination is the only limiting factor!
Permalink Reply by Stephen Russell on July 6, 2008 at 4:32pm
Sounds like you have your work cut out for you, Louis N. Molino Sr. posted a good list the only ones I would add would be www.vententersearch.com , www.whitehelmet.com, and www.mfri.org. you can also contact the national fire academy website and they also have some drills and lecture material. Remember, keeping there attention is the key. Keep the faith and stay safe
Permalink Reply by Chris Larson on July 20, 2008 at 8:42pm
my favorit training is you take like 8 guys (or what ever ammount you have you can make due or expand sinerio) you eather use a smoke machine or black out the the face pice on the scba yoiu use full scba (if possible) and full gear (again if possible)you send in a search team of two or three (fallow your SOG's) that team is then split up and dissorentied in the "smoke room" they are suppose to try and find each other and fallow SOG's (usually calling for rit because you are dissorentied) you then send in your back up team in to find your guys and get them out, we go all the way and make someone Incident Command (usually a new guy or someone who is not very confident in being IC) we also stick people under drop tanks and other things to make it harder for the second team to find them (there should be a officer or senior FF inside the smoke room setting "traps" and other things trying to slow down the rit team
Permalink Reply by Jason Terris on July 23, 2008 at 9:59pm
You need alot of Cardio. Inside a structure fire it will take alot out of you. Drink lots of fluid mainly water or something that will replenish electrolytes. Do a lot of running to build up endurance.

Jason Terris
Firefighter
Fowlerville Area Fire Department
Permalink Reply by Richard Cox on August 8, 2008 at 9:24am
Hey, Kenneth, check this out. It's a free 3D simulator program. http://www.code3d.com/
DavidPermalink Reply by David on August 17, 2008 at 11:42am
Not sure if anyone saw this on Firehouse.com but I thought it was pretty interestingsince more and more houses are putting this type windows in. Hope that y'all find something useful out of it.
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Permalink Reply by Scott Davis Sr. on November 3, 2008 at 12:53pm
Try this one ,I had my guy's donn there air packs an turn out gear. While breathing air they played basketball.I had 8 members playing . I put a little stress on them to really show how long a 30 min. bottle would really last .The worst was 10 min. the best was 18 min.

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