Ideas for a Engineers test

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PermalinkReply byLarry LasichonNovember 8, 2009 at 1:56pm

75 to 100 question multiple guess on your SOPs, apparatus that your D/O will operate, quick pump operator questions dealing with; apparatus placement, friction loss, residual pressure, relay pumping and water supply. Anything that has tripped you up in the past or the Officers have commented on.

If D/Os step up to right seat get some kind of fire sim or pictures that you can add effects to so that you can judge their ability to size up and attack a bread and butter house fire.

Dispatch them to a draft site and set up a draft operation with a whatever hose pull you think you would use. Make sure that they know the EP for the lay. Set up to pull either a couple of cross-lays or a master stream that you know the porta -tank can’t support. Check communications with the IC and hose crews. See what they do with it. If it's something that you do (relay pumping, supporting an auto extrication, Draft/fill site engine, etc), you should test for it.

If you want something specific, I can try to get you a copy of our D/O test, however, I’m not a big fan of it.

Let me know,
Larry

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PermalinkReply byKevin Matthew CurryonMarch 2, 2010 at 10:03pm

想出一个场景,你怎么样two trucks that dont match have them come up with a fitting that will make them work together it may take three or four fittings. On my test i had to connect a tanker from one county to one of our departments engines( A 4" discharge/fast fill to a 6" intake) the tanker had male threds on its discharge and our engine had a male intake the instructor took out the easy fittings so we had to invent something out of the leftovers.i used a 2.5x 4" reducer,2.5x2.5 gated wye, 2, 2.5 hard suction hose, the second gated wye,a second 2.5x 4" reducer and a 4x6" reducer. that was a very hard assignment. make them invent things.

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