Join TrueGrit at the CSFFA Fire College live burn demonstration where no matter your department’s manpower or equipment, basic firefighting fundamentals work anywhere. In today’s training run, we broke down crucial assignments: from the first due truck going interior ahead of the hose line to locate and isolate the fire, to the second due truck softening the building as an active RIT. When entering a smoky structure, remember to stay low, it is where the victims are, how you find stairs safely, and where you move the fastest. Resources dictate tactics, but mastering the basics saves lives.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:

 The way we’re gonna run this, all of you guys have a set of tools, a set of forcible entry and an officer hook. If you’re first due truck, you’re gonna be setting up in the truck. Uh, first due engines, you’re gonna actually get in the engine and you’ll basically break out, um, for your first due engine assignment.

The other two companies, you’ll basically walk up to the scene as if you parked out of the way, and then you’re, you’re coming up for your assignment. Don’t jump the gun until we put you on scene

First due company is going to be what, typically? Fire attack. Well, what if I’m a truck? Search. Search. Are we going in ahead of the hose line? In this training, we are teaching that you’re capable of going in, searching for the fire, isolating a fire room, or at least locating it, and then starting a search in, in another environment.

We’re gonna radio that back if you’re that first company. You know, truck one’s interior, we’ve located the fire on the Al- Alpha Delta corner. We’re gonna start a search on floor one. Second due engine, assist with water supply, and then backup line typically. Yeah. Second due truck, usually vent. For today, we’re gonna have that second due truck company do active RIT, so walking the building, softening the building, staying on top of things, anticipating the needs of the companies.

Throw ladders on both sides of the building. Get burglar bars, safeties, uh, unlock doors. Get those things open and ready to go. And then if a VVS opportunity comes up, you guys are gonna have that opportunity. Treat these fires like real fires when we go in there. We will not have the walls on fire. It i- it is a cinder block building.

In real fires, room and contents catch

fire, and then the structure catches fire. With that, it’s gonna be smoky. If you can’t see, be o- be on the ground. Also, finding stairs while you’re low is a lot better than finding them when you’re tall. We all know the victims are on the ground. You might as well be down there. Uh, and we move faster when we’re low on the ground because we don’t feel like we’re gonna fall.

We understand that what we may teach you, you may not say works at your department. Resources, uh, dictate a lot of this stuff, manpower, um, and just overall basic skills and, and resources, even equipment. Uh, but what we will want to give you guys is some nuggets today that does work wherever you go because basic fundamentals work everywhere.

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