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Firefighter Air Management Air and Guts: Surviving the 546 Sun
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Rich Rodewald, Drill Master, Council Interior Fire Attack
Bluffs Fire Department, and FSTB Field Rich Rodewald, Drill Master, Council
Instructor Bluffs Fire Department, and FSTB Field FSTB Field Instructors
Instructor
To most firefighters, “managing your air” Students will gain information and practice
means working until the low pressure alarm Do you have what it takes to survive a true the skills required to safely enter a burning
activates, and then leave the hazardous life or death fireground situation? This structure. The basic principles of firefighter
environment. The misconception that a class will challenge firefighters to work safety, fire behavior, thermal layering,
firefighter will always have enough time to through simulated “Mayday” conditions ventilation, stages of fire, and fire streams
exit the hazardous environment with their while emphasizing the importance of will be reviewed in the classroom. Students
remaining air is literally killing firefighters. air management and a “never give up” will put their knowledge to use in the FSTB’s
This hands-on class introduces and reinforces attitude. Students will be taught solutions two-story Mobile Fire Training unit. This
the idea of proactive air management. Some to mayday situations firefighters could training unit will simulate conditions
of the areas covered include why our current be faced with, including becoming lost or encountered in actual interior structural fires.
air management practices are dangerous, trapped inside a structure, falling through During the evolutions, students will be
how firefighters can get into trouble, and a floor, becoming entangled, collapse able to practice SCBA usage, hose handling
what happens when they no longer have events, and low air emergencies. A skills, communications, and fire attacks
air. The hands-on portion of this class will review of radio procedures for making the simulating ground level, basement, and
include basic air management techniques, mayday call will be followed by extensive above grade fires. Accountability and
emergency procedures for extending your hands-on techniques for solving those Incident Command principles will be used
air, and what to do when you are out of air. mayday parameters and getting you out during the training evolutions.
This is a physically demanding class that alive. Specific techniques will be taught Individuals from Iowa volunteer and
requires students to work with full PPE and for getting yourself out of some of the combination fire departments registering
SCBA under stressful conditions. most dangerous situations a firefighter for this course will receive a $30.00
can face inside a burning building. This is
Personal Protective Equipment and SCBA a physically demanding class that requires reduction in Fire School fees, due to partial
Requirements Apply students to work in full PPE and SCBA grant funding from the Iowa Volunteer
under stressful conditions. Firefighters Training Fund.
Class Limit: 24
Personal Protective Equipment
Personal Protective Equipment and SCBA
Requirements Apply and SCBA Requirements Apply

Class Limit: 24 Class Limit: 24

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