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Drills 2007 pg. 1

  • Drill of the Week: Safety & Survival
    Each member of the fire service is empowered to take steps to ensure their individual and their crews safety and survival by applying basic principles to every operation.
  • Drill of the Week: Special Training Schedule
    After completing a training needs assessment on these subject areas, you can easily find and develop hours of meaningful training subjects that will make a difference in safety and survival and how your department is able to respond to emergencies.
  • Drill of the Week: SCBA Training Schedule
    Enhancing your training program with new subject area coverage and incorporating scenario-based training will go a long way in improving your ability to use your SCBA equipment.
  • Drill of the Week: Pump Operator Training Schedule
    Ongoing pump operator and apparatus operator training is an integral part of a departments training program. This worksheet will help identify some topics that can be included in your schedule.
  • Drill of the Week: Officer Training Schedule
    With next year's training planning well underway, Fire Engineering would like to offer some topics and drill subjects to assist you in planning your 2008 training calendar.
  • Drill of the Week: Protective Clothing Maintenance
    Review your department procedures for use, care, maintenance, capabilities, and limitations of protective clothing. As part of this drill, identify the proper levels of protective clothing that has to be used for specific types of incidents.
  • Drill of the Week: Protective Clothing Inspections
    Identify any defects in your department's protective clothing and review use and care instructions with your colleagues.
  • Drill of the Week: Roadway Safety
    Review department SOGs on positioning, warning and headlight use, and general safety precautions.
  • Drill of the Week: Routine Fire Alarm Responses
    Consider these responses as opportunities to learn more about the building, installed systems, occupancy hazards, and to practice the standard parts of your emergency response procedures.
  • Drill of the Week: Company Preplanning
    A key to effective tactics is for companies to have a working knowledge of the occupancy that they are going to work in.
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