Combined Training Second Thursday April 19

Last night's training involved fire hydrant hookups, putting out liquid fuel fires, and drop tank filling and suction. That's quite a variety of exercises!

That was another of our Wolfskin VFD training sessions that has combined with the Mod One class that's been taught since March. Those combinations have been great, both in terms of better learning through repetition, and getting to know some of the other firefighters in the area - Glade, Crawford, Arnoldsville - who have participated both as hosts and participants.

I haven't been able to attend many of those classes, due to work, but Mike, Ed, Glenn, Jim, and The Unknown Firefighter have done a fantastic job organizing and delivering this course to ten students. Two of them will stay with us at Wolfskin, and the others are with VFDs in other parts of the county.

Everyone liked the liquid fuel fire exercise last night. Looks like a barbecue grill but perhaps a little hot for that, not to mention the fumes. Another clever construction put together by TUF:


Jim, in his guise as Environmental Protection Guy, shows the proper way to put out such a fire, with a fire extinguisher:


He then demonstrated the improper way, and why it doesn't work: with water. This was an exercise that no one could get enough of.

I have a little backlog of training photos that will be posted periodically over the next week.

--Wayne