last summer I did a training that was a starged car accident that turned into a simulated garage fire with a car involved. I had EMS, exteracting and surpersion, rehab training all in one. I also asigned different safty officers and Ic (new officers) that have never experance it before with a higher officer. it went great. It lasted 4 hours it was a sunday Drill. We are a volunteer Dept.

Hey guys... i am from a relatively small department with little to no training on a monthly basis. If you have any ideas for simple training it would be appreciated.

Hey all I'm from a little dept. in Victoria, MS. and am currently the training officer and 1st LT. I got a couple of recruits going to the fire academy for level 1 this weekend and hope they do well.

does anyone have study materials for firefighter 3

i have recently became a training officer and also involved with a training division. I am currently looking for suggestions on how to form a recruit booklet and ideas that anybody has set up and used. I have some ideas but am interested in seeing what others have. Thanks

Hello all, I have set up a cruise to San Juan, St Thomas, St Marteeen. out of Miami. It is a 1st annunal firefighetrs cruise. Look over the event page or email me for more information. The cruise is march 7, 2009. we are getting special prices for being fire department. Also our vern own party one night on ship. Pass thye word and lets fill the ship with fire department people.

Hello to all first and foremost please excuse my gramar but my problem is i am an engineer but i also have to act up in officer role i have a verry young dept meaning 18-21 average ages just looking for ways to help keep the guys intrested in training because we dont burn that often and we dont have alot of money or personel and pleease bear in mind im new to trying write training drills

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 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!

Hey Bros, Great group idea have a quick set up drill little to no cost for materials, If you have a hall attached to your house use the hall if not the bays work as well or even your local schools gym, you will need the following aprox. 10 to 15 long 6 or 8' long picnic style folding tables..3 lengths of rope 10 - 20" long smoke machine or tracing paper in scott mask simulate smoke..Set the tables in a mirrored end to end configuration to simulate interior wall structure of a house layout one team of 2 will do right hand search and team 2 will do left hand search,(both teams stat at same time to avoid down time) the crews will do a search through the mazes at the end of the maze the crews need to find the 3 sections of rope (3 each side) and on the tables legs that are at knee hight or eye level on knees tie the folowing knots ..open clove hitch, closed clove hitch, and bowline..all search teams wil tie these knots fully geared up on air wearing gloves and limited visibility upon finishing knots find their way back through maze. ( you may include downed fire fighter with pass activated to add stress level to mission and after knots extract victim..after team has exited area use a tic if smoke machine in use otherwise turn on lights and review knots and untie for next 2 teams, you can also add time trias to make more stress related drill.
The purpose will accomplish the following...1) makes fire fighters practice knots while wearing gloves if need arises in real situation.
2) teaches fire fighters in high stress situation to control breathing to avoid running low before leaving maze, member should be able to get in accomplish mission and exit with no more than 1500psi used varies with each member. 3) teaches member to think through a stress enviroment without losing objective sight. The time addition will add competition also make team be aware of air use i.e. faster in faster search faster exit and mintain their air supply. If anyone needs assistance on wall/maze set up can provide drawing here or email me .

Hi all, I'm new to the FFN and this group. I'm a Lt. with a combo department, and keeping everyones attention is job 1. Keeping there hands busy is a part of the answer. So easy set -up/ low budget ideas are key. Thank you for everyone who submits a drill or gives someone else developing one. I know most people have gone away from having the senior ff shadow the rookies, so this is the best way to get that information out. Be safe and buckle up

Boy..this is a great group, as I am the new training coord. for Mico VFD..I want to know everthing that you all are doing...why try to invent the wheel when its right here..thanks

hey guys and gals, glad to be part of the group. I look forward to helping and being helped by all here. I specialize in FF Survival training and will soon be posting some training ideas here. I also hope to hear from you and your training ideas.

Still Riding: Rescue Company New York City does anyone have this video

I'm glad to see a group like this. Keeps us safer and makes us work harder!

I have found out that in some county's the AHJ has said that they will promote firefighters from Probation to interior firefighters by them getting all 1403 classes. Can we not all agree that NFPA 1403 is a training standard? NFPA 1403 is the standard for live fire training. this does not imply that once this training is complete that the firefighter knows all there is to know about firefighting or can think on their own in actual fire conditions. Training fires are alot different than emergency call fires. In Training fires we all think safety and have two or more instructors and at least one safety officer walking in and around the house. We have also walked through the house prior to lighting the fire and made all unsafe conditions safe. I think that if we are going to stop killing firefighters we need to look at how we are allowing them to respond to and participate at emergency calls.

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Great networking opportunties and informational exchange and service...

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the day you dont need more training is the day you can get killed or hart

Hey Everyone,
Does anyone have a good tactical operations training outline.
I have been searching for a relatively detailed outline for a while now.
If you have one or know where to find one please let me know


Thank You

Need new training ideas for the crew!!! We do alot of training but some stuff is very repetative. Any ideas??

With the introduction of Hybrid and Electric cars lately, a very simple and public service oriented idea is to contact your local car dealerships and ask their Service Managers and Mechanics if they would be willing to bring a car or two out to the station and go over the hazard points of these cars. There is numerous articles online about the high voltage hazards for extrication cutting as well as the placement of side curtain air bags. Talk to the ones who know it "by the book" and have them teach what they know.

We have training for our volunteers twice a month... as we all know we have to cover some of the necesary boring stuff... insteed of just sitting in a tatics class falling asleep I had everyone wear thier SCBA and be "On Air". It helped out alot with communication (speaking with the SCBA on and also.. by the end of class most student still had lots of air. It suprised them just how long a "30 minute bottle" would last

hello all,
I am going to build a denver training box. Iam going to need the size of the box and how tall it should be. Can any one help me. And i would like to have any ideas on a maze thanks

From a posting on Firehouse.com
http://forums.firehouse.com/showthread.php?t=92576

The entire prop is 10' long, 28" wide (inside dimension) and the window has a sill height of 42" from the interior floor.

It is constructed out of 2X4 framing with 1/2" plywood walls and 3/4" plywood flooring.

I made it so that there are a total of only 14-5/16" carriage bolts and about 8-3" deck screws that hold the walls, floor and support braces together. That way it can easily be broken down into 4 separate pieces and can easily be transported or stored as needed. It can be fully assembled in about 5-10 minutes by just one person.

When fully assembled, it is extremely rigid and should hopefully last for many years.

The only thing that I think they didn't put on there is that the window is only 20" wide. I forget the height.


This is from
http://www.cityofvancouver.us/fire.asp?fireID=20445&fireSub=20475&itemid=21184&training=21823

The hallway was only 11 feet long. Because of a shelving unit and a file cabinet, the end of the hallway was only 28 inches wide. The window looking out onto the street was 20 inches wide and the windowsill was 42 inches off the floor. He was 6'1" and dressed in full turnouts. We don't know how much he weighed, but with the wet turnouts, it must have been between 250 and 300 pounds.

The one from Vancouver has some background on the incident that is good to use also.

I'm in Denver and if any of you need pictures of the box let me know. Also have a great "Entanglement" trainer built much the same way.

John

Hi everyone, my name is Karl Campbell and I am from Sydney, NS and have been an active Volunteer FF for 14 years I currently hold the position of chief and look forward to hearing from all of you on the various training topics and exercises.

hi everyone im from a small town we dont get nearly enough training anyone have any ideas

Firefighter drills are endless on the internet. Just type it in! Use your imagination when it comes to training and you will find that you have the ability to create great training drills.

To all my fellow first line officers - Lieutenants, Captains etc. I have created a new group titled Captains Corner so come check it out.

Hi Guys

Anyone got any good training or power points on Chimney fires? I am doing a class on tues but I have Nothing and found nothing in EOF ethier.... We are expecting a bad chimney season here in the northeast...THANKS!

Why not practice laddering the building for the chimney, roof ladders, roof safety, using the chimney chain, keeping the persons house as clean a possible, using SCBA's for a chimney fire.

Awesome Idea Steve, I was looking also for some classroom stuff as well. We will be using the station house for some of the practice, Unfortunatly, there is NO WAY the white hats would lets us use a private residence though! (please refer to my profile under challenge facing emergency responders) Thanks for the shout back!

EMS drill ideas??? Please? Anyone? ANYONE? Bueller? Bueller????

Ok, Moe THIS I got covered...outside drill or inside drill?

Well BOTH would be GREAT!!!!!