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Looking For Some Training Ideas
small town vol dept looking for some ideas for training 27 members with 7 that FF I trained and 5 EMT -B s and 2 EMT-P's looking something that will get everyone from age 21-65 invovled run aprox 100 calls a year combined ems and fire . thank you in advance for your ideas
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Permalink Reply by Sparky3317 on
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Table top incidents are always a good training idea. Using past or made up incidents to either improve what happened or pre-plan an incident.
If you do not run a lot of fire hands on training in house and at the state academy can help keep the skills up.
If only 7 members are FF 1 trained following the curriculum for FF 1 to conduct training sessions.
For other ideas look at firehouse.com. In the training section on the website they have both weekly and monthly drill set ups and also web exclusive articles on everything from basic firefighting and EMS to haz-mat and extrication.
I hope this helps
Stay safe
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Permalink Reply by Erik Wood on
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I agree that firehouse.com is a great resource. Something else you might consider is something more hands on, while capitalizing on the strengths (and to some extent weaknesses) of the folks you have attending the training. Anything from pulling the trucks out and doing a full scale mock rescue/fire attack, to setting up a SCBA obstacle course for the younger guys and table top excerise for the older guys.
A couple of things that have worked for my department is having the officers or senior members of the department act as firefighters and the senior guys in the house (most senior fireman under the rank of LT) act as officers during a mock rescue.
Using the FF1 curriculum is a great idea as well, we try to base all of our fire related training on the FF1 national standard. One of things we have started to do is cater drills to specific required FF1 skills and use the skill sheets etc provided by the state at those drills.
Just some other ideas...
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Permalink Reply by H.M."Andy" Anderson on
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Easy basic ventilation practice with fans. Use Heilum filled baloons in a room with two doors. Adjust the fan in different positions from one of the door and watch what happens to the baloons.
Hose practice, run three man pumper races with a target to shoot at.
Skkull practice different adresses in your town. You will a map of the city and some pins. Put the addresses in a bag and let each person draw an address. They must map out a route to the place and then add a different time of day, for traffic.
Have fun
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Permalink Reply by James Wright on
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Table top incidents are a GREAT taining toll Sparky3317 i use them as well. I am a inst. for the state of Texas I use alot of hands on full Bunker gear. also do lots of mock stuff like wrecks,house fires, and med calls. and i make IC do some thanking...
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Something else to consider....is that on a small volunteer department that may not run a lot of calls, the best kind of training is hands on training. The more you get them in the gear, using the equipment etc, the better you will be when the pager goes off.
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Permalink Reply by fireboy_52 on
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Well assuming you dont have a trainning schedule then that would be a good place to start. Bring it up at a meeting and see what their thoughts are. Since your trying to get them trainning they need to agree on certain night so you can have the most bodies there and involved. Maybe after meetings or one night every two weeks. Whatever works for yall.
Start with the basic bunker gear drill, make a race out of it. Pack drills which can be done a million different ways. Both of which is priority. Mock search and rescue with full PPE and SCBA with the mask blacked out. Use the ff 1 curriculum as someone already stated. A good way to keep the older members involved is use them as trainning help to run the drills and what not. When it comes to the EMS side use what you have in house. If your not ALS then get with the ones that are and have basic trainning there too. Basic first aid blood pressures ect. Main thing is keep it intersting and dont burn them out. That can be a tricky thing in a volunteer dept. I found that making it semi competitive can get the younger guys more into trainning also. Pull on the knowledge of the older members as well. Just because they dont have ff1 doesnt mean they dont know a thing or two...lol If you need some power points or basic lesson plans shoot me a message with your email and what it is your needing. I have a decent amount from when I was doing classes on a regular basis and also going through the instructor courses.
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Permalink Reply by William Allan Milfred Harper on
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I would like to suggest an idea that our dept took seriously and put into place . I suggested to the chief that we
pick a gas station , and go put out a fake gas fire .
What the chief did was that he called the gas station , and told them to have all cars move from the station,
and we would be there at a certain time .
everything was set , we took the trucks, and pulled into the station , men grabbed their equipment that was
needed and washed down the pavement around the pumps .
Back at the station , the trucks were filled , and a meeting was held , where everyone was told where
we went wrong , and if it was a real fire , what we were expected to do,
I find that doing something like this in practice , gives us good ideas for the real thing .
Trusting that this will help with some training idea .
One time I was pulling into a gas station , to get the care filled , a passenger from another car was
standing outside smoking a cigarette , I told him to put out the cigarette , but he refused, I pulled
out my badge, and showed him still refused, so I told the worker to call the police. He then butted
out . I stood my ground .
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Permalink Reply by Clay Reynolds on
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I am also on a small rural vol dept with 28 members. Get your local tow truck company or junk yard to donate a car to practice extrication on. If you have any playground areas around take a hoseline (dry) and wind it around the swing posts, up the ladder to the slide, down the slide, and just basically all around any other equipment then saran wrap on the mask to "smoky" conditions and then lead a guy to the knob and tell him everything went south and he's by himself and has to follow line out. To make it interesting take another line and lay it across the other line at different places just to hammer home the point of never letting go of the line your following out. Important thing is keep the training simple but effective, don't need alot of bells and whistles. Half of my members are older and don't really like to get involved in the training (they've put their time in and don't really do any interior work anymore) but I will have them assist in the training and give any "pointers" to the young guys. Remind everyone that just because we're volunteers doesn't mean we can't train like the paids and if anything "bad" can happen to them it can happen to us. Train like your life or someone eles depends on it. Also check out firefighterclosecalls and look under the training section, got alot of ideas from there.
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Permalink Reply by ashfire on
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I am always hearing of classes to train the trainer. Maybe someone in your dept could attend classes that would make them a instructor. That way they can train members of your dept and neighboring depts in needed classes or exercicises. Our dept has a few that teach state or county classes to our members. We have some preparing to take CPR trainer classes and some wanting to be EMT instructors.
I have know many volunteers that became instructors and got paid for teaching.
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Permalink Reply by Katina L Phalen on
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Speaking as a Training Officer of a small dept I could give you a hundred ideas. Contact me via email and can go more in depth, but need more Idea of what kind of calls you run.
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