Drill of the Week: SCBA Training Evolution

By Brandon Bass

2月,弗雷德里克斯堡消防局在一个旧的水处理厂进行了演习。该钻头包括盲目的SCBA组件,使用热成像设备,使用SCBA伙伴呼吸设备以及阅读软管耦合以找到离开区域的出路。该演习帮助在多个领域发展技能,帮助灌输对参与者的信心,并确保对他们的设备熟悉。练习的主要要点随后,可以轻松地适应您的SCBA培训团。

以下说明了2005年2月4日在旧水处理厂进行的SCBA培训的进展和目标。

在楼上的s training area used artificial smoke to help create a more realistic atmosphere. All participants were required to wear full PPE with SCBA (where applicable). Participants split up into teams of two. Each team carried a thermal imager and hand tool with them.

Scenario Progression
Teams began at the base of the stairs on the first level. They started out in buddy-breathing mode with one team member wearing full SCBA and the other with just a face piece and regulator. The teams proceeded up the stairs and entered the training area on the second floor

一旦进入训练领域,团队就开始搜索(同时使用TIC和传统方法)为SCBA的各个部分进行搜索。所有零件都位于所有零件后,SCBA就会组装并戴上。

While searching for and assembling the SCBA, the firefighters also located and identified a simulated fire using the thermal imaging camera.

Once the above objectives were met, the teams continued to move through the training area. In the third room (where the rear exit door was located) the firefighters found a knotted up piece of 11/2″ hose. They had to find and read the couplings and follow the hose out the rear exit. The door was in the closed position and needed to be chocked open as teams passed through it.

The teams continued to follow the hose, which lead them to the window of the fourth room. At this time the team members who were originally wearing the full SCBA came off their air and buddy breathed from their partners’ SCBA. Once accomplished, the teams passed through the window into the forth room.

Once in this room, the teams encountered a wooden confined space prop. Working together, team members passed through the prop while still buddy breathing and carrying all tools they began the scenario with. Once this was negotiated, the teams worked their way back through the training area and down the steps to the first floor, completing the drill.

All firefighters went through rehab and the scenario was evaluated.

Brandon Bass is sergeant with the Fredericksburg Fire Department, Fredericksburg Virginia.

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