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Each unit will have their own prop to train with next week. Below are pictures of the assembly.

Grant Light and the crew on Rescue 9 in Cincinnati was at it again. They built a roller prop that entraps a hand.

Grant Light and his crew from Cincinnati Fire Heavy Rescue 9 put a little work into making this old scrap steel into a great indoor training prop.

The next few paragraphs and pictures are from Andrew Brassard. The prop he built to talk about fire behavior worked great. Check it out and talk about the stages of fire with your crew. What are you looking for when, where, and why as you crawl into each building.

Grant Light and the firefighters at Cincinnati Rescue 9 built a VES prop in the firehouse.

Confined space training at the Milton (Ontario) FD using a culvert pipe and ladder gin.

Heck, most of yes have the materials laying around the firehouse. Have a rookie on your crew?

Here are a couple pictures of cheap in-house confined space training options to challenge your crew.

There are three separate parts to this post, but lots of good stuff to think about.

The scenario is a husband and wife are snaking the basement floor drain and the husband sticks his arm down the drain hole to clear some debris when the wife turns the snake on. The husband becomes entrapped in the snake and the drain. So we have to cut the concrete to get the pipe out... then dissect the pipe... then cut his finger out of the auger.