SCBA confidence course

SCBA confidence course and Mayday procedures. This was a training we did with our neighboring department. these are all the pics and vids put together.

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[kb7obm]

@hollywoodridgerunner, i didnt post any comments about 90 degrees, that was a post from heatwave2012. and interior attack is extremely hot, and as a seasoned firefighter i can tell you i have felt heat through my gear and its not fun, 1200 degrees is pushing the threshold of your gear, you best be carefull as gear can only handle extreme temp for a short period of time. training is training for real life senarios!!! stay safe!!

[hollywoodridgerunner]

its not real training there eyes aint covered and that so easy

[kb7obm]

@hollywoodridgerunner wow i have been getting alot of grief about the eye pieces, however i didnt get alot of them pics in this video, we did run some through first without them blacked out as they are rookies and also said possible clastrophobic so we do this both ways and we also do it in the dark and black tool box liners cut to cover the face piece. 

[50nazowade]

i like it its great but man you cant always rely on blacking out a mask... cause there are other things need be focused on other the being comfortable in one mask. theres a lot of work tha goes into it. just taking away one sence may enhance others but you gotta add in the other effects with rookies. you nee teams going in from every angle radio traffic real or hollywood smoke water flowin vctims entrappd.. you need the whole 10 yards. we tarin the way we fight so that we fight the way we train.

[kb7obm]

@50nazowade thanks for the comments and you are correct we do run them with a tool box foam that is inside the masks and you cant see nothing, no light at all, but when firefighters are rookies and possible clastrophobic we need them to get courage first and build them up it really is smart practice, stay safe!!!

[bizzo518]

What!!!!!....why arent their eyes COVERED...what good does it do if they can see...WEAK

[kb7obm]

bizzo, this course was used for rookies during this training in the video, we let them go through without if they prefer first, then we do black them out, and we change the course up a bit and we entrap, entagle and such, but its better to build confidence, especially when some new firefighters tend to be clastrophobic in the airpack! if you read some of the comments you would see i have commented on that before.

[festavusfortherestof]

That was great guys! Keep training hard!

[calfire1911]

Nice, but Cal Fire has one that is far much more difficult. Ba mask is blacked out and the interior is completely blacked out. Two story building and I sucked down my entire bottle almost. Implement real life scenarios suck as blacking out the ba mask.

[shingleful]

nice set up, glad i did not have to throw it but wish i had the training

[engine12f]

@kb7obm i agree as a jr volunteer fire fighter i practice by crawling behind my couch very little room so i think ill be fine just as long as my air dosnt cut out again

[richeykw]

I had to do several courses just like this for Fire Academy in Michigan. Except we did it in the dark...and just to make sure if any light came through....they put wax paper over our masks....it was very difficult....getting tangled in wires, dealing with confined spaces...and collapses on top of you.....it can get very hetic...but you keep cool, and work your way through it....great training tool. good job guys!

[TheSlantedFew]

@xXBirDEXx125

I'm also an Explorer, and we have the same helmets their using.

[xXBirDEXx125]

im an explorer and i was wondering what the difference in the helmets are, the one i wear looks like th "traditional" (i thinks thats what its called) so then what are these ones?

[sorcererx]

Do you have plans to build this prop?

[sorcererx]

Do you have plans to build this prop?