Realistic Training On The Fire Service

Pursuing the career of firefighting can be a very rewarding experience, however being a home town hero and saving lives is not always an easy task. Firefighters have to be ready for anything at any time whether it be responding to a car accident or a structure fire; they have to be prepared. Firefighters also have to have the ability to handle stress as well as have strong physical capabilities. In Ontario, there are many testing processes that aspiring firefighters have to take part in before they can be recruited. The testing components include a written aptitude test to measure reading and writing comprehension, as well as physical testing that includes aerobic and job related skills.

In the Fire service following instructions is of utmost importance. Not only is your life at risk if you fail to follow instructions, but you are also putting your fellow firefighters lives at risk.  However, not all instructions given are life threatening but,  are there to keep order and uniformity. The fire service is a paramilitary career meaning that it has a very strict standard on how things are done.  When you are given a specific instructions, it is important to truly understand what your task is. This includes everything from your job at a structure fire to knowing what your morning chore will be. This is in order to properly due your job and, to ensure that no repeats of that same task are done. Going back to the point of you fellow

As you are an important and determined firefighter to multiple crises all over the world, you must have a very full schedule. Moreover, I am only a PhD student from China. As a result, scheduling an interview to you would be difficult. However, I would really appreciate that if you could kindly spare me 10 to 15 minutes to share your experience on the following 3 questions. Your answers will significantly benefit my research if I am allowed to cite them.

The loss of points in this area can be attributed to incomplete documentation of assigned training and the need for additional training each month. According to ISO, members of the CBFD averaged 9.6 hours of documented training each month (ISO, 2014). Currently, there is approximately 10-16 hours of company training assigned each month to shift personnel. There would be no cost associated with assuring compliance with documentation and assigning additional fire fighter training each month in order to meet the 16 hour minimum. The importance and benefits of proper record keeping can be illustrated by the Dubois Volunteer Fire Department who improved from a Class 3 rating to a Class 1 in 1998. Dubois Fire Chief John Suplizio credited proper documentation of all training and testing as a major factor in reaching the department goal of a Class 1 ISO rating (Yebernetsky,

The first step is your perception of the situation that you are encountering at the moment of the emergence you have pulling up to. The firefighter needs to gather the information of how bad the patients are, how many ambulances will we need, and where to place the apparatus on the scene, and now where will we be taking all the patience’s. This has to be handled in minutes of pulling up to the emergency. Our

I have reached out to Adam Neff to assist me in this training. Neff is a Battalion Chief with the Nixa Missouri Fire Department. I believe Neff will help bring a perspective of a firefighter to the training.

Led the grant writing team for submission of a FEMA grant in 2005. This grant request was for replacement of all Self Contained Breathing Apparatus. The securing of these funds would bring the Beavercreek Fire Department into compliance with NFPA 1981 “Open-Circuit Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus for Fire and Emergency Services” (2002 Edition), NIOSH CFR Part 84, State of Ohio Homeland Security Plan and NFPA 1500 “Fire Department Occupational Safety and Health Program”. FEMA awarded a grant for $300,156.00 to the Beavercreek Fire Department October 28, 2005.

Consequently, the drills we do should be more than by the numbers drills, they should be operations that imitate what we will do at the emergency scene. They should be our “bread and butter” drills that we must get correct, every time. These drills must emulate what we do on the fire ground as a department. The goal should be training that becomes a common reaction and not a focus on what we remember as a one, two, three process.

As the fire service advances and changes there will be continuous stress and dangerous/ traumatic events that impact the firefighters mental health in a negative way. These mental health issues are labeled as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and firefighter suicide. There are large arrays of people who believe that firefighters were brave and no situation would ever change a firefighter’s way of thinking. However, as time moved on side effects from the emergencies that firefighters were responding to, began to present sides of mental health problems. This report will provide detailed facts such as the result, impact, or other subjects in relation to the two main issues above. Firefighter deaths are rising rapidly, members of the fire service need to be educated on PTSD and suicide to provide treatment before another devastating event occurs in result of the issues effects.

(Fire Service National Framework, 2012) The Framework sets out the Welsh Government’s vision and priorities for Fire Service Authorities (FRA’s) in Wales. It describes what the Welsh Government expects of the FRA’s and sets the FRA’s role in the context of the wider public sector. This Framework creates the foundation on which to build and promote innovative solutions, recognising expertise, sharing resources and enhancing capacity across FRAs and with the wider public sector. (Fire Service National Framework,

Knowledge of fire control techniques, practices, and fire behavior gained while directly working on the fireline through a variety of climates, fuel types, terrain, and complexities.

The calls that we respond to in the fire service are dynamic. Captains should rely on experience from all areas of a crew’s life in order to mitigate the situation in the most efficient way possible. A member of my crew may have a construction background, for example, that enables him to recognize unsafe structural conditions, a skill that can potentially save lives. As the captain of the crew, I will make it a priority to become familiar with the backgrounds of all of my crew members in an effort to remain efficient in all emergency incidents and

I will be commenting on how the trend of hirering firefighters with higher education has affected training in my fire department in the past few years. My dept is relatively small we are a composite fire service with a compliment of 16 career 3 part time and a fluctuating number of roughly 10 volunteers. When I joined the fire service, you started out as a volunteer and with dedication, hard work and a bit of luck you would get hired as the next part timer. After being hired as a part time employee you had to start by accumulating hours towards your journeyman tickets and then you provincial certification which required so many hours to write each block. During roughly the past ten years since the provincial certification was abolished and

Fire Fighters and Disaster Management (Damkar & PB), require any personnel to stand ready to carry out the call of duty. Tackling the task of a very heavy and full of risks. Each charge of Fire Fighters and Disaster Management workers are exposed to hazardous conditions of the physical environment, severe emotional stress, the response time of solid and dealing with a lot of people grief. But behind the grief that surrounds firefighting jobs, there is a certain satisfaction, inner joy of the officers after the successful rescue and help the public until several officers also received an award from the government for their hard work and sacrifice.

The fire service is an ever-changing organization. To stay proficient with skills and new standards, a training facility is imperative. The facility will also fulfill the departments ISO requirements to obtain an ISO 1 for the city. The department is growing and emergency responses are increasing annually. As personnel and stations are added, the need for one centralized training location to perform multi-company drills is imperative and fulfills NIMS compliance. The ability to perform these drills allows for Estiville and neighboring departments to work together to improve communications and work relations. It also provides the ability to create realistic challenges that can be presented to the organizations officers and firefighter is in a safe and controlled environment.