This structure fire training video provides firefighter search and rescue trainings ideas. This fire rescue training teaches firefighters how to search for and rescue citizens within a structure fire.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:

“Search and rescue are not synonymous they shouldn’t even be in the same phrase. It’s search, and then rescue is separate. It’s so often we say search and rescue and never know what to do when we find somebody.”

Paul Capo, Division Chief Operations and Training, Estes Valley Fire Protection District

Search and rescue are not synonymous they shouldn’t even be in the same phrase. It’s search and then rescue is separate. It’s so often we say search and rescue and never know what to do when we find somebody, and it looks like this.

You force the front door, you go into a smoky foyer, you go into a smoky living room, you find the smoky stairs, you go up the smoky stairs, you go down the smoky hallway, you find the smoky bedroom. The door is open and you go in and you find my mom. My mom in the back smoky bedroom, she’s not dead but she is close. How do you get my mom out of the building? How does my mom get out of the building?

This is how my mom gets out of the building. You take her off the bed and were creatures of habit so we got back the same way we came in. We go back the smoky hallway, the smoky stairs, the smoky living room, the smoky foyer, you know what I mean?

“You get them out of that atmosphere as quick as possible and sometimes that is the window. You need to have that plan available from the very beginning.”

Instructor Tip

She wasn’t dead when you found her but she’s dead outside. You’re getting high fives from your buddies and next thing you know, you committed murder. You found her alive and with your intervention, she died. Because we’re creatures of habit and that’s what we do.

You get them out of that atmosphere as quick as possible and sometimes that is the window. You need to have that plan available from the very beginning.