Pine Point Fire Training Augusta Maine
Short Handed Firefighting National Volunteer Fire Council Concord North Carolina Thank You National Volunteer Fire Council Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
We are Pine Point Fire Training • Maine based Fire Officer Training Company • Established in 2012 • 14,000 hours of training in the books • 4000 Students attend our programs • Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont & Canada • 2018 – Missouri and North Carolina & Vermont Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
Lobster and harvests the majority of the lobster in the United States. Maine has 3,478 miles of coastline - more than California (3,427), and over 5,000 miles of coast if you include all of the islands as well.
Winthrop, Augusta, Rural State, Tremendous Coastline Farms of Aroostook County
Short-Handed Firefighting 1. I have an understanding of how hard it is to fight a fire with limited resources 2. When you have 4 or 5 Fire Departments responding mutual aid 3. When it takes 15-20 minutes to have enough trained and certified personnel Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
No Fire Academy in Maine What can we do to prepare firefighters to make decisions?
Short-Handed Firefighting 1. This is typically a 3-hour program 2. We have an 8-hour all day version as well 3. Today we will cram in a 2-hour session 4. The message on all our programs is mission driven and safety. Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
Objective # 1 1. Fire Service Risk Management 2. Timing & Circumstance 3. Recruitment & Retention 4. Building Construction 5. Modern Fire Behavior Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
Forcible entry is a basic task – Interested in the decision making process
I spent 12-years as a Training Officer working really hard getting people trained & certified. At fire scenes our biggest problems were risk management and decision making not a firefighter skill issue.
Mission Driven! 1. Save Lives 2. Save Property 3. Firefighter Safety Do it without getting injured or killed! Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
When managing a fire scene 1. How important is training when it comes to making decisions at a fire scene when we are responding in a short handed situation? Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
Objective # 2 1. Fire Service Risk Management 2. Timing & Circumstance 3. Recruitment & Retention 4. Building Construction 5. Modern Fire Behavior Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
Timing & Circumstance
Timing & Circumstance
The Basic Firefighter Training 1. Fire Attack, deploying lines 2. Search & Rescue 3. Ventilation It takes a human being and a decision to orient yourself to the incident Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
Are these important? 1. Your knowledge of building construction 2. Your knowledge of fire behavior 3. Your ability to size-up and evaluate the enemy 4. Make decisions that are mission driven Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
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Objective # 3 1. Fire Service Risk Management 2. Timing & Circumstance 3. Recruitment & Retention 4. Building Construction 5. Modern Fire Behavior Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
Recruitment & Retention 1. Does your State have a shortage of Volunteer Firefighters? 2. Poll the room for seniority 3. What has changed from when you started? Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
Recruitment & Retention 1. Number of firefighters available 2. Responding with limited amount of personnel has consequences 3. National Problem 4. Not specific to Maine 5. Reality is that through all of this we still respond Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
Shirley Maine Cooper Maine Columbia & Columbia Falls Alexander Maine Just this week Cavendish Vermont Structure 3-Members Showed Public watched
The Statistics 1. 1984 897,759 Firefighters 1. 11-million calls 2. 2017 814,850 Firefighters 1. 31-million calls 3. Responding to more calls with less people Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
The Statistics 1. Average age of the firefighters 2. 1984 65% were below the age of 40 3. 2014 50%below the age of 40 4. Rural death rates vs. birth rates Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
Junior Firefighters 1. Local & Regional Programs 2. To attract members when they are young in hopes they will stay around 3. National Volunteer Fire Council www.nvfc.org/juniors Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
Types and number of calls 1. The added responsibilities 2. EMS, Haz Mat, Water Rescue, Ice Rescue, Vehicle Accidents, Tech Rescue, Traffic Safety 3. You name it, they call us, we come Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
In the last 40-years 1. What has changed in the last 30 years? Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
Vertical ventilation is a basic firefighting skill. The decision when to do it?
Training 1. Are we setting our firefighters up for failure 2. Basic Firefighter I & II Training 3. Live burns 4. Neuro Science of firefighters Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
The Workforce 1. The millennials vs. baby boomers! Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
Modern Fire Environment 1. It is my belief that we are at a very dangerous period in the fire service 2. Generation of lightweight constructed homes 3. Modern fire behavior 4. Responding with less people 5. Less time to focus on fire training Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
Objective # Fire Behavior 1. Legacy vs. Modern Fuels 2. Ventilation Limited 3. Flow paths 4. Transitional Fire Attack Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
BTU Comparison • 1970’s 1 - lb Wood/Organic 7,000 btu’s • 2018 1-lb plastic/synthetics 17- 20,000 btu’s • 1970’s140lbs fuel loading = 1.2 million btu’s • 2018 540 lbs fuel loading = 4.9 million btu’s • 1970’s stuffed chair 351 btu’s • 2018 stuffed chair 1990 btu’s Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
BTU Comparison • 1970’s old mattress 385 btu’s • 2018 New mattress 2493 btu’s • Flame spread synthetics 2’ per second • Flame spread gasoline 2’ per second • 3500 lbs synthetics in an average home Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
Modern vs. legacy
Respect for those that died in the line of duty – NIOSH LODD Reports
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Objective # Fire Behavior 1. Legacy vs. Modern Fuels 2. Ventilation Limited 3. Flow paths 4. Transitional Fire Attack Pine Point Fire Training Augusta ● Greenville Maine www.pinepointfiretraining.com
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