In this instructional video, Poudre Fire Authority Captain Gallimore and Firefighter Ollilia provide instruction for Fire Academy Recruits working on the Rapid Intervention Crew at a live burn exercise.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:
Let’s go over results real quick. What are our results?
Radio?
Yep. And what are we doing with the radio.
Make sure we’re on the right fire ground, listening to fire ground traffic. Perfect.
Yep. You want that in your ear. Make sure you’re listening to everything that’s happening just in case there’s a mayday. Just in case. It sounds like there’s about to be a mayday where people are entering, where they’re getting out.
As a sidebar to that. Everybody should be listening, and if you hear something critical or you think’s important, you shouldn’t just assume that everybody else has heard it. ’cause that can happen.
Everybody be on different channels. You get out, someone’s ear piece isn’t working. So if you hear something, cap, did you hear that? Did you hear? Did they, did they just say that? Get confirmation amongst each other. Don’t just assume, oh yeah, I heard there was a mayday.
E?
Egress
and what are we doing there?
Checking doors as we’re going around.
Yep. Making sure they’re soft, making sure it’s easy to exit, but we’re not actually like creating a flow path, Right? We don’t wanna make sure doors are like open when they shouldn’t be and things like that.
And checking, but also making sure we mentally know where they’re at.
Okay.
That’s exit points for us.
Absolutely. S?
Secondary egress
and what are we doing there?
Making sure we’re knowing their secondary egress. Is there softening doors? Um, peeking our head in seeing it together.
Yeah. And specifically if we went in on the alpha side. Where would we wanna consider having a secondary egress at? We can actually tell people where it is.
Charlie.
Charlie, right? It’s not always a door, right? Maybe we’ve got big bay windows that if we call a mayday, we’re going through a dang window, right? So just keep in mind that it doesn’t always have to be a door, okay? Like if it’s a basement window wells, right?
That’s our exit, our next secondary egress. So what’s, uh, U?
Utilities? Beautiful. And what are we doing there?
Uh, just killing the gas electric if we need to.
What if you don’t kill it or can’t find it?
Tell command?
Yep.
Mm-hmm.
Utilities secure, except gas. Utilities secure, except electric. Unable to secure utilities.
L?
throw ladders to second floors.
Don’t just throw a ladder to say, I threw a ladder. We don’t ever just do things to check the box. Is it reasonable to put a ladder there? Does it make sense? T?
Two and two out.
And what does that mean for us
being that second crew that’s ready to go in for the first.
So it means your air pack’s ready, you’re ready to mask up as soon as possible. If you’re alone and you’re doing something, let’s say I told you to shut the gas off and you’re by yourself and I walk away. Is that appropriate? If we’re trying to make sure we have two, two out, if we’re kind of like leaving each other behind and not together as par two, at least, maybe that’s not ideal, right?
So if we are 10 or 15 feet away, not a big deal. If you’re on the Charlie side and I’m on the alpha side, we aren’t ready to go if a mayday happens. Now we have to find each before we can ever make our way in.
.The last S?
Ladder Relief of Secondary Ladders
Yeah. If we’re not doing vertical vent for, there’s no option for that. If it’s in the basement, there’s probably no ladder to the roof necessary.
Things like that. We’re not trying to clutter the fire ground with unnecessary stuff.
Like results is important, but that’s not the main goal. Right? Like our main goal is to be always ready to help the firefighter on the inside. So if you’re using results and. And it starts to distract you from that task.
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