V.E.S. — Ventilate, Enter and Search Tactics | Finding Babies in Smoke Filled Rooms

This fireground training provides firefighters with 3 tactical search moves to use when in a V.E.S. (ventilate, enter and search) bedrooms scenario that can result in quicker victim rescues. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: This is our seasoned crew and everyone is missing babies. We’re going to teach them some higher level skill sets, because they are missing some. This is exactly how …

Forcible Entry Two-Man Away | Forcible Entry Tool Training

In this forcible entry fireground training, firefighter two-man crews learn how to force open a heavy, away swinging door using a halligan bar and a fire axe. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: Little bit about our Halligan here. A 30 inch pro-bar halligan. It’s got a few notches in it about an inch three quarters. That’s generally the depth on the other side, …

Ladder Window Rescue | Pregnant Lady and Side Step Techniques

This firefighter training video provides firefighter victim rescue training. Firefighter ground ladder training teaches firefighters how to safely move on a ladder while rescuing a victim. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: You got a couple different options here in the ladder, three of them carries two of them identical, just different ways. Third one’s different. but is separate. So when I’m here as …

Passing Safely on a Firefighter Ground Ladder

This firefighter ground ladder training teaches firefighters to navigate passing each other safely on the ladder while also training them on how to carry a baby down a ladder. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: What happens if I climb up this ladder,mom yelling at me, “Save my baby, save my baby!”You’re up there and you’re down here. So I’m up here on the …

Search or Rescue | Structure Fire Firefighter Rescue Tip

This structure fire training video provides firefighter search and rescue trainings ideas. This fire rescue training teaches firefighters how to search for and rescue citizens within a structure fire. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: “Search and rescue are not synonymous they shouldn’t even be in the same phrase. It’s search, and then rescue is separate. It’s so often we say search and rescue …

Throwing Ladders | Structure Fire Firefighter Training

This structure fire training video provides ladder throwing tips to help firefighters eliminate steps and raise ladders more efficiently. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: I know you all know how to throw ladders. My hope today is maybe we can eliminate steps, and build some efficiency. Firm and level ground, overhead obstructions, all that stuff’s assumed. Low shoulder carry, that chicken wing comes …

Fire Hose Management Through Stairwells

This structure fire training video provides fire hose management training. This firefighter training teaches firefighters to navigate stairs safely while also maintaining efficiency, ultimately resulting in quicker fire suppression. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: So I’m going five times further. If I can go in the center of the stairwell here. So one fist, if I can get two fists in there, that’s …

Upstairs Fire Hose Management Firefighter Training

This structure fire training video provides upstairs fire hose management, teaching firefighters how to efficiently move fire hose upstairs in a structure fire. Firefighters train on moving upstairs while maintaining control of the fire hose. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: “Be cognoscente of the condition of the stairs. Double check them, make sure they’re not spongy or anything like that.” INSTRUCTOR TIPS Let’s …

Fire Hose Preparation for Ladders

This structure fire training video provides fire hose management training, teaching firefighters how to prepare fire hose for safe ladder operations. Proper fire hose preparation keeps the firefighter safe when climbing on ladders while also maintaining efficiency. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: So, it’s pretty darn easy nozzle wise, there is a thing that I will show you for this piece once you …

Hose Deployment for a More Efficient Response and Implementing the Three “L’s”: Lift, Life and Layout

This structure fire training video provides fire hose management firefighter training, teaching firefighters how to premeditate and train on hose deployment for a more efficient response. Proper hose deployment and management decreases the time spent outside and gets the firefighter between the fire and the victim sooner. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: So we’re going to start with our selection, right? We are …