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/