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Permalink Reply by Stephen Russell on September 10, 2008 at 3:44pm

Sorry, I forgot to thank everyone who helped in this training from set up to help with this discussion. Thank you all I couldn't have done it without you.
Lt. Russell

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Permalink Reply by amanda on October 17, 2008 at 12:06pm

this is a really good idea for a drill im gonna run it by my chiefs and give it a try ing my dept and will let u know how things go..and again great idea

Permalink Reply by Andrea on October 28, 2008 at 8:30am

That sounds interesting and fun. Every FF should be able to put their equipment on in the dark.
Thought you may get a kick out of what we did last night. I put on full turnout gear and crammed myself up underneath the engine compartment of our tanker truck in the dark, and our FF's had to don all their SCBA's and find me in the dark. Then they had to get me out from underneith the truck and drag me all the way across the garage (it's big) avoiding obstacles and to the exterior door. Minus heat, it made for a good drill.

Permalink Reply by Stephen Russell on October 29, 2008 at 3:18pm

Thats a very interesting twist I may have to try that out. Thanks for the reply

Permalink Reply by James Copas on October 29, 2008 at 6:46pm

Thanks for posting this drill Mr. Russell. We did it here at my department a few weeks ago and got some pretty good feedback on it. You can bet we will be trying it again soon.

Permalink Reply by Eric on December 13, 2008 at 4:06am

I had never done this type of drill until about 2 weeks ago. Our department's training officer set it up and after being completely frustrated by taking over 7 minutes, I realized that this can be an extremely useful training exercise for S&R teams, F.A.S.T./R.I.T. teams etc. Not only that, the familiarization that this exercise can bring to new firefighters with their equipment. We did this by splitting into two man teams, full ppe with hoods turned around we didn't use hoselines for guidance though. Our team would perform a search pattern through the rooms to find the SCBA's that were twisted, tangled and taken apart in whatever fashion those setting it up deemed. We would re-assemble the SCBA's to their intended order, change them out with ours and that was it. I think that it is a truly useful exercise.

Permalink Reply by Jim Brunelle Jr. on December 28, 2008 at 11:40am

Pretty cool drill

Permalink Reply by Jason Brooks on January 1, 2009 at 6:51pm

We have done similar drills in the past. These are always great since they are different enough that guys have a competition built in a can give each other a hard time. They even learn something in spite of themselves. We take our packs apart as far as we can. Bottles, regulators at buddy breather, tangle and not straps, etc. The more that they have to look for the more fun it is. Guys will find a part that they need and then toss other parts around the room to mess with the other guys. We have not done it as a team yet, good idea, we do it as head to head competitions.

Permalink Reply by Nate Millard on January 6, 2009 at 2:50pm

We did something similar on my dept. We blacked out our masks and were set on one side of the station and our packs were hidden some were with the pass going off. So we had to listen for our pass and locate it were ever it was hidden. After locating it we had to fix at least 5 or 6 problems like straps messed up, tank unhooked from the regulator, etc. We had alot of positive feed back from it and a little frustration because it was found to be a little perplexing to do all of that with full turnout, masks, and gloves for some of the new ones.

Permalink Reply by R Griffin on January 14, 2009 at 7:36pm

i did a training similar to this but without the hose. I will try the hose next time THANKS! We use press and seal on the face mask depending on the instructor on just how many layers will be used. usually 2 or 3 will be fine.