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Back to the basics training ideas

by Jim Blauch

Feb 5, 2012

Hi everyone,

I am a new training officer for our volunteer fire department and I am looking for some creative training ideas for our drills. Since we were lacking a good training officer and therefore our training was lacing I feel we need to get back to the basics and would like some ideas that would make training fun which would hopefully get our members more involved. This month's training is SCBA's. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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    Jim Blauch

    Mike,

    Thanks for the excellent advise.  Some great suggestions.

    Feb 14, 2012

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    ira kronenfeld

    buy a smoke machine  for search drills and scba confidence  . we use our machine all the time it uses peanut oil does not harm anything. well worth the money

    Feb 12, 2013

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    Karl Grath

    Creating mock courses for your team to drill through is most effective. If your training team is small like mine is, and you're truly focused on getting back to the basics, I suggest picking up some fire service training books. Might not be as "fun" as you requested, but there are some workbooks you can hand out to the department so they can be involved with their readings.. good stuff to use during free time away from active training.

    Sep 17, 2014