While drilling on master stream operations at my career station, we had a very close call recently. I was on the pump panel while my lieutenant and two other firefighters were setting up and operating a portable monitor. While drilling to achieve various GPM flows by removing the … [Read more...]
WATCH OUT FOR ELECTRICITY DURING TRAINING!
A recent event has made a few of us aware that refreshing our knowledge about electricity is a good thing. While working on a live-fire house burn preparation, I was confronted with the main panel in the basement that was in the way, making it difficult to put up a ceiling … [Read more...]
REAL MAYDAY DURING TRAINING
I run with a volunteer fire company, on our training night we went to the training tower for our community. During our final evolution I was the pump operator and the guy who had been pumping moved to an interior position. While I was pumping over the radio came "We have a Man … [Read more...]
ARFF SIMULATOR FAILS AFTER UPGRADE
Aircraft Rescue FireFighting training class the College of Technology reflash simulation did not work properly after new improvements. It was after million dollar upgrade. What happened was we were doing intital attack on aircraft when we got fire knocked down we were working our … [Read more...]
DUMMY FALLS ON FIREFIGHTER DURING TRAINING
A volunteer firefighter was injured Wednesday evening during training at the William Waugh Fire Academy. Jamie Empfield, of White Township, a member of the Indiana Fire Association, was sent first to Indiana Regional Medical Center, then was transferred to UPMC-Presbyterian in … [Read more...]
DO TRAINING RIGHT AND DON'T GET ANYONE HURT
My Fire Department was having a pump drill on our drill the other evening and we had a junior on a 1 1/4 inch supply line (Note the junior was not a very large boy) and the operator kicked the pessure up to 100 psi and the junior was knocked back and lost the line and cut up his … [Read more...]
DO TRAINING RIGHT AND DON’T GET ANYONE HURT
My Fire Department was having a pump drill on our drill the other evening and we had a junior on a 1 1/4 inch supply line (Note the junior was not a very large boy) and the operator kicked the pessure up to 100 psi and the junior was knocked back and lost the line and cut up his … [Read more...]
SMOKE GRENADE TURNS OUT TO BE TEAR GAS – 19 FIREFIGHTERS INJURED
On October 23, 2007, while training at the smoke house facility, a Deputy Chief detonated a smoke grenade (approved for use by the Fire Chief and another Deputy Chief). The smoke grenade turned out to be tear gas (CS M7A3). 19 firefighters were injured. 2 required … [Read more...]
Instructors: We can preach all we want-but if we don't set the example by actions-our words are nothing but BS.Firefighters burn to death annually at TRAINING BURNS.This can very easily be fixed....if we wanna.Full "modern-head to toe with no exposed skin" PPE-all the … [Read more...]
NO SCBA LEADS TO CLOSE CALL DURING LIVE FIRE IGNITION
On a live fire training exercise, I was assisting a lead instructor in setting up a warehouse burn. Concrete building, piles of pallets, the usual drill...and of course all the pallets were outside. I used that as an excuse to leave off my SCBA while running burn material up and … [Read more...]