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Firefighters run two-story rescue drill at approved burn facility
Summary
Firefighters conducted multi-day training this week at an approved burn facility simulating a two-story residential blaze with victims on both floors, practicing forcible entry, ladder placement, ventilation and incident-command communications to improve safety and accountability.
Speaker 1, a staff member, said, "We're out here doing training evolutions each each day this week. We change out the scenarios for the crews. We're also challenging some of the, younger guys who are gonna be acting officers in the future. This was an approved burn facility built to withstand all these hay and pallet fires. We get it to where they feel heat and the conditions are 0 visibility."
The exercise simulated a "two story residential fire with victims trapped on both floors," Speaker 1 said, adding that the scenario reflects incidents that are "certainly possible in town." The crew trained on forcible entry, ladder placement for roof ventilation and victim rescue. "Truckload's on scene. It's not been showing right now. Command, I heard smoke go up for Second Floor," Speaker 2, a staff member, said during the drill.
Speaker 1 described hands-on skills emphasized in the drill: forcible entry on different door and window types, placement of the ladder truck for roof operations when it can be done safely amid power lines and trees, and performing rescues once victims are located. "You're at the fourth entry and, find out where that fire is. What you start, a lot of basic firemen skills, you know, forcible entry," Speaker 1 said.
Later in the exercise Speaker 1 said crews focused on communication, hose management and incident-command practices intended to "improve our communications on the fire ground which ultimately improves our accountability." The staff members emphasized that those practices are part of their safety procedures for both firefighters and the public. "And that's something that we take very seriously is the safety of our people as well as the public," Speaker 2 said.
The training used an approved burn facility designed to withstand hay- and pallet-fueled fires and to create conditions such as heavy heat and zero visibility for realistic practice. No policy actions or formal decisions were recorded during the recorded remarks; the session described was a hands-on training evolution.
