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Fire Scene Simulator 6
If you have not seen this program it's free for downloading and an amazing program for training. This is a great way to build confidence in both firefighter and senior officers. It's also a great way to pre-plan your attack on what you would do if this happens on your watch.
What you do with this program is go around your area. Take pictures of places that you think would be of interest. Load the pictures into this program and then you can start. The way we do this at our station for training is set up teams. Which people would be on which rig, then who is incharge of that rig will do the radio communications. First off we state the address, responding to a house fire.
With the picture of the house, you can now add smoke or flames. You can show all 4 sides of your building. This allows one to do there size up and discription of the building. After the 4 slides are done, you can now add more smoke or flames as though it was really happening. This gives one the ideal what steps will happen in a timely frame of rigs arriving and then setup time.
You can now give directions to each person and each rig what you want them to do when they arrive. Is there hydrants or are we going to set up a tanker. Is the driveway to long that we will have to do pumper relay? Are there any harzards / corcerns that need to be stated.
If you get the chance download this program, if you have a power point system it's great. If not then you will all have to sit around a lap top / computer. Either way on those training nights where it's rainy or cold out. This is a great training aid that will allow you to feel more comfortable when you get a call at the location. You know what has to be done, and take input from others.
We rotate this exercise so that even the new firefighers get used to the radio chat. Know what they are required and know what the directions are. We have a training channel and will set two people in another room, one to be a dispatcher and another to make notes. To make sure all bench marks are hit, starting off with the type of discription of the building. One person controlling the presentation. One problem we have found is that people want to start asking to many questions during the presentation. Treat this as a call, then afterwards do a Post Incident Evaluation. Just like you would after any call, how could we of done things better what where the good points taken at this call. Remember one must mention the goods and the bads. But we must confirm the good points, as most trainers like to point out negative things in training.
Fire Scene Simulator 6 @ http://www.firesimulator.com
The group has put this at a free cost to help Fire Stations with a low budget.
They have put a lot of work and effort into this and it has helped out a lot of fire teams understanding what there roles are and when you do get that call.
Flash backs of this program helps you know what the hazards are at the location you are at. What steps are needed, and what rigs or manpower is required.
If anyone has used this program please put your input on this to others.
I can not say enough about his program. It's amazing! Areas you can cover off is Incident Size-Up, Radio Communications, Pre-Incident Planning, and Incident Management.
What you do with this program is go around your area. Take pictures of places that you think would be of interest. Load the pictures into this program and then you can start. The way we do this at our station for training is set up teams. Which people would be on which rig, then who is incharge of that rig will do the radio communications. First off we state the address, responding to a house fire.
With the picture of the house, you can now add smoke or flames. You can show all 4 sides of your building. This allows one to do there size up and discription of the building. After the 4 slides are done, you can now add more smoke or flames as though it was really happening. This gives one the ideal what steps will happen in a timely frame of rigs arriving and then setup time.
You can now give directions to each person and each rig what you want them to do when they arrive. Is there hydrants or are we going to set up a tanker. Is the driveway to long that we will have to do pumper relay? Are there any harzards / corcerns that need to be stated.
If you get the chance download this program, if you have a power point system it's great. If not then you will all have to sit around a lap top / computer. Either way on those training nights where it's rainy or cold out. This is a great training aid that will allow you to feel more comfortable when you get a call at the location. You know what has to be done, and take input from others.
We rotate this exercise so that even the new firefighers get used to the radio chat. Know what they are required and know what the directions are. We have a training channel and will set two people in another room, one to be a dispatcher and another to make notes. To make sure all bench marks are hit, starting off with the type of discription of the building. One person controlling the presentation. One problem we have found is that people want to start asking to many questions during the presentation. Treat this as a call, then afterwards do a Post Incident Evaluation. Just like you would after any call, how could we of done things better what where the good points taken at this call. Remember one must mention the goods and the bads. But we must confirm the good points, as most trainers like to point out negative things in training.
Fire Scene Simulator 6 @ http://www.firesimulator.com
The group has put this at a free cost to help Fire Stations with a low budget.
They have put a lot of work and effort into this and it has helped out a lot of fire teams understanding what there roles are and when you do get that call.
Flash backs of this program helps you know what the hazards are at the location you are at. What steps are needed, and what rigs or manpower is required.
If anyone has used this program please put your input on this to others.
I can not say enough about his program. It's amazing! Areas you can cover off is Incident Size-Up, Radio Communications, Pre-Incident Planning, and Incident Management.
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