Fire Department Training in Pimmit Hills
Saturday, May 8, 2010
1823 Gilson
8 am to 3 pm
Please be advised that the Fire Department will be conducting a training exercise in your neighborhood soon. The house will not be “fully” involved in fire. Fires will be typically be constructed of a few pallets and a bale of straw. The training officers build a small fire, the recruits extinguish it and repeat this 7 to 10 times.
They will practise search and rescue techniques and practise cutting holes in the roof and interior walls under “real life” conditions of smoke and heat. While you may briefly see a few flames and some smoke, this will not be large amounts of either and each round is only a few minutes long. There will be minimal impact to traffic and neighbors. Nearby hydrants will be used and any driveways or streets crossed will have hose ramps so that vehicles can drive over the hose.
In an average exercise, a pumper is in front or in the driveway and one at each fire hydrant for a total of 3 pumpers and there will be a ladder truck and ambulance. Recruit transportation will be the fire and rescue academy bus and a pick-up with a trailer to transport supplies for training. There will be approximately 35 people involved in the average training, which will usually start approximately at 8:00am and end about 3:00pm.
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