Training on Sunday's

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Permalink Reply by Dave Gallagher on January 26, 2009 at 7:56pm

Greetings; I'm late getting into this but here's my $0.02; We ran a 24/48 and for the one Sunday a month we went out on drill. In our department during the week there tended to be non-firefighting 'duties' that took up much of the day; washing staff cars, doing the floors, etc; so Sunday was an open day. It's not that we didn't have a Mon-Fri training calendar, but many times it was restricted to lecture.

When we went out it was on fair-weather conditions. And, I'll offer that the people I had the fortune of working with were motivated. We would rather do practicals than sit around. This was a great time to head up to the areas of new construction where we could lay lines, throw ladders, with impunity. No one was around, no traffic, the calls were less, and we could run real time drills.

As far as a comment of Sunday was a time for crew bonding, it seemed that my crew bonded when they knew what each other could, and couldn't, do, worked on it, and achieved.

After I retired and went back for medal day, one of these members who I dragged out on Sunday received some tin for making a particularly difficult grab; when I told him how proud of him I was, he told me that all that came into his head was the laddering we did on the "Sunday" drills. Yeah, I think it was worth it.

Be safe,
Dave

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Permalink Reply by Shawn Tibbitts on January 26, 2009 at 8:12pm

We have always trained on our 2 nd day except when it falls on a sunday or major holiday.(we do 2,10 hr days and 2, 14 hr nights with 4 off) Im not saying its right, hell I wish we trained more. Its just one of those old things that people dont want to change. Dont know why they cant use the whole sabeth thing I know better than that:)

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Permalink Reply by David Short on February 8, 2009 at 1:26pm

Sunday has always been "our day" and guys are not excited about changing that. I started with simple street test and slowly tried to expand it into type of structure at that location with possible tactical problems and considerations. This can be done from the couch, recliner or kitchen table. Old habits are hard to break but gradually build new ones. Rome wasn't built in a day. Most guys are open to it but there are those that do the bare necessities and move on.

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Permalink Reply by Brenda Tenney on February 8, 2009 at 7:10pm

Our dept does train on some Sundays,But Saturday is the main day we train. We have the most fire calls on weekends,during late hours of the night. When and call goes out on and Sunday,not only that is a must,and extra training.,
On the weekends ,when there is no call ,we clean up the dept,wash the tankers,fire trucks and etc.There is always something to do at the fire house.BT

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Permalink Reply by john przybylek on February 9, 2009 at 8:58pm

With the size of our dept , it's hard to get out of service for training sometimes. But there's always time on the calender in the evenings or on a sunday....besides , during the week there's inspections, prefire plans , special details, not to mention emergency calls.

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Permalink Reply by Chad Berg on February 9, 2009 at 11:50pm

It's a good thing that we don't have fires on Sundays either! Oh wait a minute...............

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Permalink Reply by Steven Klein on February 10, 2009 at 12:13am

In Crivitz (50 miles north of Green Bay, Wisconsin) we are a volunteer fire department with 4 officers and 21 firefighters. Regular meetings are on wednesday nights and we get 15 in attendence. One weekend a month, we have drills all day Saturday with a turnout of 15 to 18 personel. Drills are never held on Sunday. Church and family are very important in Wisconsin. During hunting and fishing seasons attendence is very sporatic.

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Permalink Reply by Brenda Tenney on February 10, 2009 at 8:35pm

Hey Tom ,start giving them and pink slip,those add up,and some fire fighters are out and gone.

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