We have placed firefighters in extremely dangerous situations and risking their lives for no apparent reason during a so called training evolution. On approximately May 14th, 2007 the **FD acquired a vacant singlewide mobile home to be used for a firefighter down training … [Read more...]

We have placed firefighters in extremely dangerous situations and risking their lives for no apparent reason during a so called training evolution. On approximately May 14th, 2007 the **FD acquired a vacant singlewide mobile home to be used for a firefighter down training … [Read more...]

Recently a local fire department was given the oppertunity to practice truck operations at the local high school. The school was at the end of the multi-million dollar renovation in which a three story new building was built and the existing back wings built in the 50's were to … [Read more...]

Our department was involved in live fire training in an acquired structure, the building had been prepped strictly following NFPA 1403. The structure is a warehouse covering an entire city block and was mostly non-combustible construction with an attached cinder block and … [Read more...]

January 28, 2006. NCDOT had donated two single family dwellings to our department to use for live fire training. Everything went well during the day. All the NFPA 1403, local and state requirements had been fulfilled. We had a great water supply, 1 instructor for every 3 … [Read more...]

I am an Asst.Chief/training co-ordinator for our small rural department. We were recently training at our live burn training center (4-20 ft steel shipping containers first floor with 1-40 ft container second floor w/interior steel staircase) with a larger metro FD. We were … [Read more...]

My own close call involved draining large diameter, 6 inch, hose after testing. WE had laid out more than the recommended length of hose to get the testing over quicker and the roadway sloped away from the engine slightly downhill. The end of the 6 inch hose was capped with a 6 … [Read more...]

On Sunday November 12, 2007 Lake Carmel Fire Dept. was holding a car fire drill. I was one of two safety officers. We were about 45 minutes in the drill and had done approx. 7 evolutions where we would approach car sweep under and then attack fire but not put it out. I was … [Read more...]

Crews were setting up to do a final complete burn down of an old house. Rooms were stoked with hay, old pallets, old wooden fence. Training officer okayed use of 2 gallons of gas on the first floor since there would be no crews entering for the burn. Gas was put down in living … [Read more...]