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Hi guys and girls.
I will start to say, because I don't know where to start, that I enjoyed this day's webcast very much and it gave me a better understanding of how the American FDs use their most basic (nuts and bolts) tool, aka the SCBA.
It showed and explained to me a lot of techniques I'm not familiar with because of the construction type of our (European) buildings. In our basic teaching course we get in the fire academy we have to go to small openings and such but we don't learn specific techniques but rather have to find it out ourselves. This works but it could be done better. The same goes for the entanglement techniques.
I believe that the way to go in the future is larger bottles (45min bottles would be a minimum imo) in accordance with returning when at 50% capacity and better training and understanding of air management. Edit2: I would also combine this witha three shift system for very large fires as explained by Grimwood in Euro Firefighter.
Another thing that I like is the smart HUD that I would love to have over here (together with buddy breathing).
I know I missed a couple of things but I'll leave it at this point.
Feel free to give your opinion about this as these are just my thoughts at this time which might change if you could convince me.
Theusje
PS: Am I the only one that only has sound and the first slide when trying to view Engine Company Do's and Don'ts Webcast from 15 December 2010? Edit: I have this problem with all the webcasts in the archive. Edit 2: It works with RealPlayer. Guess what I'm going to do these next hours.
I will start to say, because I don't know where to start, that I enjoyed this day's webcast very much and it gave me a better understanding of how the American FDs use their most basic (nuts and bolts) tool, aka the SCBA.
It showed and explained to me a lot of techniques I'm not familiar with because of the construction type of our (European) buildings. In our basic teaching course we get in the fire academy we have to go to small openings and such but we don't learn specific techniques but rather have to find it out ourselves. This works but it could be done better. The same goes for the entanglement techniques.
I believe that the way to go in the future is larger bottles (45min bottles would be a minimum imo) in accordance with returning when at 50% capacity and better training and understanding of air management. Edit2: I would also combine this witha three shift system for very large fires as explained by Grimwood in Euro Firefighter.
Another thing that I like is the smart HUD that I would love to have over here (together with buddy breathing).
I know I missed a couple of things but I'll leave it at this point.
Feel free to give your opinion about this as these are just my thoughts at this time which might change if you could convince me.
Theusje
PS: Am I the only one that only has sound and the first slide when trying to view Engine Company Do's and Don'ts Webcast from 15 December 2010? Edit: I have this problem with all the webcasts in the archive. Edit 2: It works with RealPlayer. Guess what I'm going to do these next hours.
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