Instructorship

Columbus FF JD Vasbinder talks the crew through the steps of gaining access to a pinned driver in the video below. The teaching points are in the video, so be sure to watch with your crew to learn new or review already known techniques.

This past weekend several of us had the chance to travel to South Carolina for the 3rd Annual Rippin Rescue class.

Some simple knot and rope rescue system training for the dopes on a rope and knot beginners.

A few months back Elgin (Oregon) Fire Protection District Fire Chief Kevin Silvermail contact us about our homemade forcible entry prop. Unfortunately there are no blueprints to share, but we passed along numerous pictures and emails with measurements.

For the last several years, February has been a good month to review and practice all things firefighter survival, rescue, MAYDAY, RIT.

Dave Walsh is on fire forwarding some good training materials this week. If you get a chance check out the SUNY Dutchess Fire Science Program on Facebook. For this post we simply linked the new bowstring truss interim operating procedure out of the FDNY.

We spent another couple hours in the horse barn this past Saturday practicing some forcible entry techniques.  Several first time horse barn trainees joined in on this last session for a while.  The prop moved back to the shop for a little maintenance and a couple additions. In addition to the actual forcible entry training we continue to see the ...

Unfortunately, the young lad won't be going to the regional qualifier because other students presenting on basket weaving and the aerodynamics of horseshoes were selected instead.

So one of the local high school career center students and fire explorer asked if I could help him learn more about forcible entry for a skills challenge competition. He said competition, right? All in!

This just happens to be a prime example of what we need to do as trainers in the fire service. We have to step back from time to time and remember to show the basic operations of some of what we now think are the simplest of tasks.