Training for Monday, January 4th at 7pm will be ropes and knots. This is one of those skills that's hard to stay proficient at; we don't use it nearly enough. So refreshers in this skill are a must. The knots link in the training tool box is a great resource. I recommend you check it out and also read chapter 9 of your J&B book. If your going to practice, practice with your gloves on.

Your Instructor will be Capt. St.Pierre.

Training for Monday, December 28th will be a fun night of Wii. All members, (Fire & Rescue), are encouraged to come. We will be playing various games on a Nintendo Wii on the big screen and having pizza. Never played? That's OK, most of us haven't either, but I ensure you it will be fun and bring plenty of laughs!! Everyone has worked very hard over the last year with trainings, so its time to relax, have a little fun and just enjoy each others company. Games to be played will be revealed that night, don't miss out on the fun!!

Medical Equipment and Location

Training for Monday December 14th will be Medical Equipment and Location. This class will be all about knowing what different EMS equipment is, and where to find it in the event we need to retrieve it for one of our EMS providers.

Your instructor will be Lt. Peter Bryant

Hoses and Hose Deployment

Training for Monday the 7th will be Hoses And Hose Deployment. This class is required for probationary personnel. We will be going over identifying hose lays, the correct way to pull a lay so it is ready to advance and how to repack and re turn to service all our different hose lays.

Please read chapter 16 of your J&B book prior to class.

Your instructors will be Chief Sacco & Lt. Bartlett.

Fire Fighter Qualifications, Safety & personal protective equipment

Training for Tuesday, November 17th at 1900 will be Fire Fighter Qualifications, Safety & personal protective equipment. This class will be geared towards our probationary personnel but will be good for all our members. We will need help with the practical part of the class so if any one is interested helping please let us know.

Your instructor will be Lt. Mitchell

Please read Chapter 2 of your J&B Book prior to class

Climbing to the Top

Training for Monday, Nov. 9th will be ladders. Ladders are a big part of the fire service; they are our lifeline when we are above the ground floor, give us roof access to vent heat and toxic gases out of a building, help remove victims from the second floor, and so on. Obviously I don't have to tell you we need to know the ins-and-outs of ladders well. We will have a short classroom portion and then get to hands-on work with some ladder drills. This will be a great opportunity for those that are not yet interior firefighters to learn related fireground operations that can be utilized while you are finishing your interior training. It is important that ALL fire personnel become comfortable and competent in ladder operations, so please make every attempt to join us. Please review chapter 12 of your J&B book prior to class. Your instructors will be Lt. Doyle and Capt. St.Pierre.

Roof ladder article

http://firechief.com/tactics/firefighting_matter_physics/index.html

Upcoming trainings

Here are the trainings that will finish up the year, as we get closer to the dates I will post a more detailed description of that training. All trainings are open to fire and rescue.

• 11/09/09 Ladders. J&B Chapter 12. Instructors: Lt. Doyle & Capt. St.Pierre.


• 11/17/09 PPE, Firefighter Qualifications & Safety. J&B Chapter 2. Instructing: Chief Sacco & Lt. Mitchell. This is a Tuesday night for Rookies but is open to all.


• 11/23/09 Tools, Salvage & Overhaul. J&B Chapters 8 & 18. Instructing: TBD.


• 11/30/09 Fire behavior. J&B Chapter 4. Instructor: TBD.


• 12/01/09 IMS (Incident Management System). J&B Chapter 4. Instructing: Chief Sacco & Lt. Mitchell. This is a Tuesday night for Rookies but is open to all.


• 12/07/09 Hoses & Hose line deployment. J&B Chapter 16. Instructor: TBD.


• 12/14/09 Medical Equipment and location. Instructor: TBD.


• 12/28/09 FUN NIGHT!! All I can say is Wii.

Fitness in the Emergency Responder

Training for Monday, November 2nd will be Health & Wellness in the emergency service. This training will include classroom presentation along with a practical session. This should be a very informative night for fitness reminders as well as some new concepts to incorporate into our everyday lives. This training is open to Fire and EMS; we hope to have a large turnout, so please join us!

Guest instructor is Paramedic Mike Carroll, EMS coordinator for the city of South Portland; also of Code 3 Conditioning, a company dedicated to the fitness of Emergency Responders.

Chim-Chimney

Training for Monday, October 26th, will be on chimney fires and CO calls.

Well its that time of year already, the cold is setting in and people are firing up the wood stoves and terning up their thermostats. So, with that in mind its time to brush up on some of our cold weather skills, specifically chimney fires and co calls. We also will be going over our co meters.

Your instructor will be Chief Sacco

For more info check these links out

Chimney firers http://www.firerescue1.com/fire-products/tools/articles/432037-Tactical-Approaches-for-Chimney-Fires/

Carbon monoxide http//www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_General_Facts/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf

THE CHALLENGE

Training for Monday, October 12th will be Individual Consumption Rate Challenges. What is this? Glad you asked...and no, it does not contain large amounts of hotdogs.

Individual consumption rates are regarding, in simple terms, how much air we use and how fast we use it in a working and non-working capacity.

In full turn out gear with SCBA, we will be putting you, as an individual, through a series of tasks that will raise your breathing rate to simulate working conditions at a structure fire. You will continue doing the tasks until you have completely depleted your air supply. This is timed to determine your air consumption in different working conditions and exertions. The information gained will be very helpful in knowing personal and department working capacities and limitations at actual incidents. To work as a team, its important to know our own and each others limits and maximums regarding how long our air is going to last.

For more information on air management see link below and read chapter 17 (pg 537) in your Jones and Bartlett book. You may also refer to NFPA 1404.

http://www.euro-firefighter.com/chapter_eight.htm

Ladder Maintenance

Training for this Monday Oct. 5 at 7pm will be ladder maintenance. We will be pulling all the ladders of the trucks washing them and making sure they are in good working order. the ladders will be getting their annual testing done this next week, so we want to pre-check and service them all. We will need a good turn out for this so hope to see you all there.

FYI http://firechief.com/inservice/basic_ground_ladder/

Mutual aid with Poland Fire and Rescue

On Monday September 28th at 7pm A crew from Poland Fire and Rescue will be joining us to learn our Squad 1, so in the event they are covering our town and need to roll Squad 1 they will be familiar with it and its equipment.

In return, on Wednesday September 30th we will go to Poland's station and get familiarized with Poland's rescue 1, which is a very large and impressive heavy rescue. If you can make it, I would highly recommend checking this very equipped truck out.

Extrication Training on Wednesday

Training for Wednesday September 23rd will be A join training with fire and rescue. The topic will be patient packaging and disentanglement. This will be a great opportunity to hone our skills as a department, build on our communication skills and work together better as a complete team.

Training will start at 7pm at the station

Instructors

Lt. peter Bryant

Capt. Jeremie St.Pierre

Barbecue

Monday night we will be forgoing the truck checks & in place of it having a little barbecue instead. We will still be doing the radio checks with the monthly meeting to follow. Should be a great time hope to see you all there.

P.S. The Chief is cooking.

General Work Detail

This Monday, Sept. 14th, we will be inventorying the trucks, getting things ready for fire prevention and getting the new barbecue pits ready for use along with some other miscellaneous projects. All help would be appreciated.

Col. Muster did it with the 1-3/4" line in the parking lot....

Training for Monday, August 31st:

Back, by popular demand, the (none traditional) fireman's muster. Like last fall we have put together some new and old drills to build teamwork, confidence, basic skills and camaraderie. This should be fast-paced, challenging and fun for all. We will be doing hand line, pumping and other ground operations as well as laughing uncontrollably. So bring your competitive edge and see you Monday night 7 pm.

Instructor will be Capt. St.Pierre

FYI: The first firemans muster was held July 4, 1849 in Bath Maine

ISO Water Shuttle Drills

Training for Monday, August 24th will be water shuttle operations for our ISO rating. We will be meeting at the station for a quick meeting on job assignments & plan of operations. We will be using Bowie's pit and the transfer station for our water supply and drop off. This is a very high paced operation & will need lots of manpower and driver operators; all help will be appreciated. Instructors for this operation will be DC. Levasseur & Chief Sacco.

Class B Fires

Downeast Energy will be holding a Class B course, complete with certificate, for us over the next couple of weeks. This is a 3-part class. The dates are August 3rd, 10th, and 15th. The first two dates are classroom times at our normal training time, 7pm, with the 3rd date being a Saturday, with hands-on, live fire training starting at 8am. For those who have not had any experience with Class B fire, this will be an eye-opening experience. For others who have dealt with Class B fire, this should be a great refresher. Our respected instructor will be Downeast Energy's Don Houd.

Extrication Training

We will be having extrication training this Sunday, August 2nd, 2009, at 7pm, at Central Station. This will be an informal training to allow for hands-on tool time, practice of known and new techniques. This will also be for Angela Schwartz, photographer, to get some firefighter action shots. Your esteemed instructors will be Capt. Joy and Capt. St.Pierre. Any questions, please contact either Captain. Hope to see everyone there.

Hose Testing- June 8th and June 22nd

It's that time of year again...hose testing time! On Monday, June 8th and 22nd we will be testing all of the hose on all of the trucks, excluding engine 3. That hose was tested at the Fire Attack School at the beginning of May. That leaves us with only three trucks to go through. With a good turnout, we will be able to get all the testing done in one night. This would leave the 22nd open for a different training. All help would be appreciated. Also keep in mind for the pump operators, this would be a good time to get some pump time in and for some of the newer members, you could get some of your hose requirements out of the way. Hope to see you all there.

Farm Machinery, June 1st

Training for June 1st will be farm machinery. This will be an introduction to types of farm equipment & machinery that we may be exposed to in an emergency situation. This will be a "what it is" and "how it works" class, with some do's & don'ts. We will be traveling to the Bartlett farm on Peacock Hill Rd. to see some examples first hand.

Our leading expertise and instructor will be Lt. Bartlett.

Hydrand Testing

Training for Monday the 11th will be our annual Hydrant testing.



We will need as much help as possible (especially driver operators),
the better the turnout the sooner we can get it all done and out of the way. It's very important they are ready to go for the next year. This is also a great opportunity for driver operators and up and coming operators to get some pump time in. We will be putting as many trucks on the road as possible heading in different directions. Hope to see you there.



The instructor will be D.C. Levasseur

Foam Systems & Use

Training for Monday, April 27th at 1900 will be foam systems & operations.Your instructors will be Lt. Doyle & Lt. Mitchell. We will be having a short class room time followed by hands on training. This will be a good refresher for some of us and a good introduction for those of you that have never trained with foam before.

Forestry training on April 13th

Fire season is here

Its time to prepare for the season.

We will be doing a short class room time,
followed by some hands on training along with getting our equipment ready to go.Please read chapter 20 of your J&B book prior to class.

Your instructors will be

Capt. Tim Joy

Lt. Ryan Mitchell

Training schedule thru June

The tentative training schedule thru June will be as follows


April

• 13th Forestry



• 27th Foam systems

May

• 11th Hydrant testing

June

• 1st Farm machinery



• 8th Hose Testing



• 22nd Hose testing



• 29th Hose operations w/live fire

What are you interested in ?

I'm currenly working with the other officers on putting together the next few months of trainings and would like you're input.

• What would you like to see for trainings?

• What do you think the department needs?

• Do you have any new ideas?

Please post any and all suggestions under the comments for this post.

Thank you for your input.

Cumberland County Fire Attack School

If you are interested in any of the offerings this year, and are interested in the department paying the class fee, you will need to email Capt. St.Pierre your 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th class choices by Monday, April 6th at 1800 for consideration. The Captains and the Chief will review all the choices, and will make decisions based on course relevancy, amount of department member interest, (if there is a large interest, we would entertain the idea of holding it in-house), and budget. The classes are the weekend of May 2nd. The school flier with course descrriptions, is at the station in the day duty office, or available on the net at http://www.ccfas.net/

Any questions, please email Capt. St.Pierre.

Training for April 6, 2009

Training for Monday, April 6, 2009 is Forcible Entry. Your esteemed instructor will be Lt. Dan Bryant. We will be using the forcible entry training doors from Maine Fire Training. This should be very interesting to see how they work...Class starts at 1900.

Please read chapter 11 out of your J&B book prior to class.

We will have the training doors on Thursday, April 2nd thru Monday, April 6th.

Training for March 30, 2009

Training for March 30, 2009 will be Fire Alarm Systems. Your featured instructor will be our very own FF Craig Elkanich. More information to come...

Mandatory Trainings

It's that time of year again when we need to brush up on our mandatory skills. (Bloodborne pathogens, traffic control, hazmat awareness, sexual harassment and extinguishers) Instructor will be Chief Sacco. These trainings will be held on:

• Monday, March 23rd @ 1900


• Wednesday, March 25th @ 1900


• Friday, March 27th @ 0900


• Saturday, March 28th @ 0900

You must make one (1) of the four trainings. Any questions, please contact Chief Sacco.