In this fire truck tower ladder training video, “Training To Perform Under Pressure” instructor, Steve Ripley, A.K.A. “Rip”, instructs firefighters through a cone tapping drill that helps operators establish the necessary skills they need to be precise with an aerial bucket. This drill is useful for rescues, navigating small areas or performing technical rescues.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:

 This one here is basically just a push down and we’ll go up left, right, extend. Um, e-stop here. We’re gonna keep it normal mode. We’re not gonna go to creep it or anything. The goal is if we get in here and the victim hits this, what’s going to happen?

It’s gonna move.

Yep. So before I go to get my victim, I just wanna hit this quick e-stop and then I want to go, okay.

So nothing gets caught on these controllers. Okay.

If you look off the front, there’s gonna be a, uh, cone that is hanging roughly three feet down. Okay. Our object is the touch. Each one of these cones, anywhere from the white strip up. Okay. Without knocking it over. Alright. We’re not trying to set it on top of there.

All we’re doing is trying to touch it. Okay. The smoother we are, the less swing we get with the um, cone obviously. We got a little wind today we’ll have to contend with. But other than that, I think we’ll be good. Smooth in, smooth out. That’ll keep that rocking going.

Nice job.

So you feel that bump? What that is is we’re electric over hydraulic up here when we’re trying to feather that, that, um, electrical solenoid, it’s firing.

Not yet. Hey, look there!