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Drills 2008 pg. 2

• Drill of the Week: Instructor Skills
  Every member of the fire service has experiences, knowledge, and skills that can help train other firefighters. This useful guide will help develop and refine your presentation skills
• Drill of the Week: Scene Hazards
  Review these sample situations that have caused firefighter injuries and deaths and identify methods of monitoring the safety of the crew during the operation.
• Drill of the Week: Mayday Drill
  This drill is designed to help you identify the situations that would require a Mayday message and evaluate your skills in doing so.
• Drill of the Week: Equipment Knowledge
  Firefighters must know the use, care, maintenance, capabilties, and limitations of everything they are assigned to use. Review your procedures for accepting and placing new equipment into service.
• Drill of the Week: Water Rescue
  This sample scenario will allow you to review the incident scenario and discuss your department's operations for this type of response.
• Drill of the Week: The 500 psi Drill
  The importance of air conservation using all available air may be the difference between life and death. In this drill you will identify how much "survival time" you have with as little as 500 psi of air.
• Drill of the Week: Emergency Evacuation Training
  During agressive interior attack operations, sometimes it is necessary to order an evacuation of a fireground. Practice this skill in controlled simulated fire training exercises.
• Drill of the Week: Disorientation Drill
  In this simple drill, the firefighter will simulate that they have become separated from crew members and must identify the quickest way out of the area.
• Drill of the Week: Routine Responses
  Take note of the following characteristics the next time you go on an ambulance run, CO detector, or assist-the-citizen call.
• Drill of the Week: Roof Styles and Shapes
  Discuss common operations on these roofs and emphasize company safety while working on vertical ventilation operations.

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