We have preached for years the importance of getting out and surveying your area to know ahead of time what you will face on the fireground. One of the most important (yet often overlooked) components of a good area survey is sharing the information with the other shifts. We recent received an excellent example from Tony Ferreiro, Carpentersville (IL) Truck 981. He shared that his shift goes out once a month on Sundays and actually ladders buildings in their area with the aerial. This obviously allows them to determine optimal positions, and identify any limitations ahead of time. Beyond the area familiarization component, setting up the aerial on actual building is a valuable training tool for new or relief drivers. When it comes to sharing the area familiarization information Tony sent in this attachment which was shared with the other crews. The simple attachment is just a few pictures with descriptions of what they found of interest in that particular building, like a roof over. The example could have gone one step further to show the aerial set-up in a few spots on the building to show good and bad placement.
Area familiarization is an essential tool in being a well prepared truck company, but sharing this valuable information with everyone else is just as important.
I have that same handlight.
That is a good idea if you can get the other shifts to share in their experiences to. I would like to start a program like that here as well in Arkansas. There are alot of our driver’s in training that don’t have adequate experience behind our truck. Then they get shoved behind the wheel after just a few tests that are usually played out in a vacant parking lot. Few have ever driven one in the busier tight streets we have prodominate here
that wood apears to have bordatella
Your handlight is not in my area.
And you’re right, that wood does appear to have kennel cough.
Seriously, though. Even if you can’t get the other shifts on board, just keep passing on the info. While they may get tired of it, they’re bound to remember some of it.
this type of training is difficult because if members are not willing to learn/accept new info, then they are not going to be open to your presentation. great idea for companies that want to learn new stuff and are in the fire service for the service, not a pay check. when it comes to those that do not want to train, you cant push a chain!
They just constructed a similar roof on the middle school in our first due the same way. Flat roof failed and leaked during the blizzard. They build the entire new roof structure out of light weight steel stud trusts then covered with metal roof decking on top of the flat roof.
This is a great idea, unless your dept. has an SOP. against training, as many seem to have!
I would be more concerned with what is under that original flat roof, probably steel truss like in a home depot. I would be concerned with this if this was over residential building, but being over a school, if its burning the only life hazard is us.