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Training Division Revision
My department is currently trying restructure our entire training division, ranging from weekly training drills to training documentation. We are trying to think of new, exciting, and productive training drills to challenge our firefighters with. What are your suggestions?
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Permalink Reply by Matt on
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Some air management drills would be a good idea. Physical work in airpacks and gear. Use props to simulate pulling ceilings or busting out chimneys with a sledge. Also stairs or a hill.
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Permalink Reply by John Crabbe on
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We are trying to think of new, exciting, and productive training drills to challenge our firefighters with
My take would be to ask yourself if everyone is capable, proficient, and confident with the basic skills? While there isn't a problem doing something "new and exciting", too often we see the "new and exciting" or at least new, taking precendence over some basic skills. I don't speak just about volunteer depts, but in many career as well, too often the concern is about something new and different as opposed to concentrating on the basics.
Really I would see no problem with a drill consisting of size up, hose deployments, flowing water, throwing ladders etc. Then if you want to mix it up, rotate positions.....let the new FF be the IC for the drill and have some more senior members throwing ladders or pulling hoses.
However, never forget the most basic of drills and that consists on radio operations, knowing and practicing calling a MAYDAY. There are many different ways to change up basic skills rather than looking to concentrate on "new and exciting".
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Permalink Reply by Nathan Henderson on
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One thing that I have noticed that makes training a little more fun is turning it into sort of a competition between the members. Seeing who can get a line pulled through a course the fastest or who can find the victim in a search and get them out first pushes the members and can build some friendly competition.
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Permalink Reply by Firemedic on
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For the first time this year, I made our guys play basketball with just SCBA and masks on. The last one to take his mask off or out of air was the winner with bragging rights. They loved it. It worked great for breathing drills, SCBA familiarization, and exercise. Try it. We did it twice this year and the second time we had amutual aid fire department come play against us. They loved it too.
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Permalink Reply by ian wilcox on
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i agree with the basics, practicing dressing a hydrant,water supply,catching a hydrant etc.the basics seem to be forgotten or assumed that you know,typical example having a discussion with a senior member about catching a hydrant and him dissagreeing then having ass chief tell him i was right he was wrong so we got out the edukit and went through it so everybody was on the same page,always review the basics so they are fresh, then look at new stuff as it comes,i like the idea of basketball with scba thats awsome
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Permalink Reply by Jason Ely on
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My depts are going to be covering all the basics again this year. We will be doing everything from throwing ladders, hose lays and deployment, pump operations, calling the mayday, search and rescue, and turn out gear and scba. We also will be covering RIT, as our county is working on getting firefighters trained on every dept. This will be something new for our guys as very few have done any training on it and we have a new training program for it. The basics are something that never hurts go go back and cover, even just for a review. We have even talked about having our dispatch tone our guys out at night, just to put them thru the catching the hydrant and fireground operations in the dark.
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Permalink Reply by Marc Hansen on
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Love this idea, going to have to try to get that started here
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try a quarterly drill, talk to local school/church...etc about using their facility.
-1st drill the training starts with the basics: size up, building construction, apparatus placement, hitting hydrants, stretching first line
-2nd drill can cover ladder placement/use, vent, search, RIT use...etc
not any new or flashy training ideas but gives something to work up to. during the drills make sure to rotate your members so they arn't in their usual spots
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