This week on The Firefighter Training Podcast we talk about how to build good tabletop exercises and the system of identifying a problem, gathering intel, training, tabletop, and then full scale exercise. The tabletop is not a test but 1 piece of a comprehensive training plan.
Also two very important “AskThe Chief” segments on self dispatch and the working relationship between career and on call departments in the same system and organization.
1.) What is your initial C A N report?
2.) What are your assignments for the first due ladder?
3.) What are your assignments for 4th & 5th engine companies?
4.) How many occupants might you anticipate?
5.) How long will you be on scene for this one?
This week The Firefighter Training Podcast asks the questions, “Are we teaching tactical decision making wrong?”
My thoughts on maybe a different way of instruction.
This episode is operational in nature.
1.) Give your C A N report.
2.) What room of the house is this fire most likely in?
3.) What is the configuration after you open the front door?
4.) Where should the primary search start? Then where?
5.) Identify any ventilation options you have here.
This week the Firefighter Training Podcast celebrates 6 years of podcasting on this St Patrick’s Day. Because of that we talk about 6 factors or considerations of being on an engine company, being on a ladder company, being and officer and being a firefighter.
Fire on the wheels and truck system of a rail car.
What considerations must be taken and how will you extinguish?
Any water supply near your rail lines?
This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about the speed bumps that might be occurring on your organizations information highway.