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Unless you can set them up at a training area where you can run Ladder and OFA tactics or cut cars, there isn’t much you can DO from the curb (you can SHOW them a lot).
If you have the time and equipment, you could set up a series of displays where visitors can put on spare PPE and BA and walk thru evolutions (ground level stuff only) that involve advancing a charged hoseline, following a charged line in the tangle course, carrying a K-12 or Hurst tool and dragging a Randy while blacked out.
That will give someone a small idea of the basic physical and mental stuff that we have to be able to do.
Larry Lasich said:Unless you can set them up at a training area where you can run Ladder and OFA tactics or cut cars, there isn’t much you can DO from the curb (you can SHOW them a lot).
If you have the time and equipment, you could set up a series of displays where visitors can put on spare PPE and BA and walk thru evolutions (ground level stuff only) that involve advancing a charged hoseline, following a charged line in the tangle course, carrying a K-12 or Hurst tool and dragging a Randy while blacked out.
That will give someone a small idea of the basic physical and mental stuff that we have to be able to do.
Larry,
I really like the idea of having the public actually feel what it is like to be a firefighter! Have you ever tried this? and if so what was the feedback on it? My only concern is that, I have a feeling if I suggest something that the public will actually be involved with, our chief will bring up the legal aspect of somebody from the general public getting hurt or have a medical emergency and we will be held responsible.
Thanks for the ideas!
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