Learn more through discussion and presentation on our Frontline workers in Dispatch, response times and overall safe staffing for our fire fighters.
Fire fighting is a team effort and requires adequate personnel to complete a number of complex, time-critical and labor-intensive tasks simultaneously. This is a physically demanding part of the job where you will work as a team to deploy hose lines with other participants to make an initial exterior attack on a burning building. At the same time other members of your team will be performing forcible entry on a door. Once the fire is knocked down and the door has been forced open, your team will make an interior attack to fully extinguish the fire and put out any hot spots. This scenario will highlight the importance of safe and effective staffing and the dangers of the profession.
The primary mission of the fire service is to save lives and property. During search and rescue, every second counts. In this scenario, you’ll enter a structure to search systematically and thoroughly as a team in order to quickly find and remove trapped victims. There will be zero visibility due to the smoke, and noisy, so it’s easy to become disoriented or lost. The importance of working as a team with adequate staffing will prove vital in this scenario.
Vehicle extrication requires removing a trapped/injured person from a vehicle that has sustained damage, and is a dangerous situation. In this scenario, you’ll work with experienced fire fighters using the hydraulic tools needed to extricate the victims safely and effectively. You’ll then have a hands-on opportunity to feel the strength, force and time needed to access a damaged vehicle and rescue an accident victim.
Fire Fighter Self-Rescue and training for mayday situations are required when fire fighters are put in dangerous situations. As fire fighters, we train using our Fire Ground Survival Program for High Risk, Low Frequency events -- most important part of the job and keeping ourselves safe so we can perform fire and rescue tasks to save others.
Confined space training where you are trapped and need to get through small enclosures to escape heat and flame.
Getting tangled in wires when searching for occupants.