In this series of fire truck tower ladder training videos, “Training To Perform Under Pressure” instructor, Steve Ripley, A.K.A. “Rip”, provides firefighters non-verbal communication skills for the fireground when working with an aerial apparatus.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:

  Hand signals. What do we think this means?

Lower or come down.

If that mic’s not working, I want to use my hand signals. down.

Okay. Up.

What is this? Extend. Extend, okay. Retract. Alright. Yep. Go that way. Left, right.

A lot of times what people do though is they’ll get out here on this tip, okay? And if I’ve got my back to him and I’m doing this, what’s he seeing? Nothing. Okay. So I need to turn it where he can see it. Okay. What’s this? slow.

Just a little gimme a little easy pieces.