Brattleboro Fire Department's
Training at BUHS
The firefighters at the Brattleboro Fire Department recently were able to use a section of the BUHS that is being renevated for some valuable training for it's members. The training committee put together multiple training exercises for the firefighters at BFD. These exercises ranged from helping a firefighter know when and how to properly call a mayday situation, to breaching different types of walls for firefighters to escape situations where there means of egress has been cut off. Firefighters also used these to practice using proper radio communications for the different situations.
Training committee member John Lawrence uses a piece of chain link fence and body weight to simulate debris fallen on firefighter Decell to get him to call a mayday. The firefighter had to keep track of his location in the building and use the Brattleboro method for calling a mayday in communicating his proper location and information to aid his rescuers.
Firefighters use ordinary hand tools to force open a door to a simulated fire room. The area had a heavy smoke condition from the smoke machine that created a realistic limited visibility situation which made it more difficult for the firefighters to perform the forcible entry.
Firefighters were directed to follow a hoseline into a structure fire to continue a primary search. A smoke machine was used to creat a realistic low visibility situation. The firefighters had a series of rooms that needed to be searched to locate the victim. Once located the firefighters had to bring the victim to the nearest exit.