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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

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Pine Point Fire Training Augusta Maine

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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

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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
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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.
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Winthrop, Augusta, Rural State, Tremendous Coastline Farms of Aroostook County

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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

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No Fire Academy in Maine What can we do to prepare firefighters to make decisions?

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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.

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Objective # 1

  • 1. Fire Service Risk Management
  • 2. Timing & Circumstance
  • 3. Recruitment & Retention
  • 4. Building Construction
  • 5. Modern Fire Behavior
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Forcible entry is a basic task – Interested in the decision making process

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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.

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Mission Driven!

  • 1. Save Lives
  • 2. Save Property
  • 3. Firefighter Safety

Do it without getting injured or killed!

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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?

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Objective # 2

  • 1. Fire Service Risk Management
  • 2. Timing & Circumstance
  • 3. Recruitment & Retention
  • 4. Building Construction
  • 5. Modern Fire Behavior
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Timing & Circumstance

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Timing & Circumstance

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The Basic Firefighter Training

  • 1. Fire Attack, deploying lines
  • 2. Search & Rescue
  • 3. Ventilation

It takes a human being and a decision to

  • rient yourself to the incident
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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
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Lindale

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Objective # 3

  • 1. Fire Service Risk Management
  • 2. Timing & Circumstance
  • 3. Recruitment & Retention
  • 4. Building Construction
  • 5. Modern Fire Behavior
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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?

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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

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Shirley Maine Cooper Maine Columbia & Columbia Falls Alexander Maine Just this week Cavendish Vermont Structure 3-Members Showed Public watched

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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
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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
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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

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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
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In the last 40-years

  • 1. What has changed in the last 30 years?
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Vertical ventilation is a basic firefighting skill. The decision when to do it?

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Training

  • 1. Are we setting our firefighters up for

failure

  • 2. Basic Firefighter I & II Training
  • 3. Live burns
  • 4. Neuro Science of firefighters
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The Workforce

  • 1. The millennials vs. baby boomers!
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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
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Objective # Fire Behavior

  • 1. Legacy vs. Modern Fuels
  • 2. Ventilation Limited
  • 3. Flow paths
  • 4. Transitional Fire Attack
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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
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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
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Modern vs. legacy

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Respect for those that died in the line of duty – NIOSH LODD Reports

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Claremont NH

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Objective # Fire Behavior

  • 1. Legacy vs. Modern Fuels
  • 2. Ventilation Limited
  • 3. Flow paths
  • 4. Transitional Fire Attack
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Adam St. John 7 minutes

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149 Hours of Training (includes EMS) 6-Years of experience Call at 14:30 on scene 14:38

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Monkey Business

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Nothing showing

  • 1. Where are we on the timeline
  • 2. Vent limited = real close to a thermal

event

  • 3. Captain Frank Mora Study SAFD
  • 4. 11-Year period 1979-1990
  • 5. 17 Incidents 23-Deaths 94% light smoke or

nothing showing on arrival

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LA Door Control 10-mins

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Don’t think for one second that his program is all about exterior ops

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The Primary Search

  • 1. What we talk about today
  • 2. Is all about the primary search
  • 3. The mission to save a life
  • 4. In an aggressive firefighting tactical
  • bjective
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Objective # Fire Behavior

  • 1. Legacy fire attack
  • 2. Modern fire attack
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Five Monkeys

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How important is size-up?

  • 1. Ohio
  • 2. 4-Man Engine Company
  • 3. Policies & Procedures
  • 4. Training initial fireground operations
  • 5. The first 5-minutes dictates the next 5-

hours

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Objective # Fire Behavior

  • 1. Legacy vs. Modern Fuels
  • 2. Ventilation Limited
  • 3. Flow paths
  • 4. Transitional Fire Attack
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Coordination of crews

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Short staffing and committing personnel to vertical roof ventilation….the debate

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Short staffing and vertical roof ventilation

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Exterior fire spread

  • 1. Vinyl siding & Soffits
  • 2. Legacy - Fire showing a window
  • 3. Metal 10-minutes to melt – smoldering
  • 4. T1-11 200 seconds and 80 to the soffit
  • 5. Vinyl – 90 seconds vertical flame spread

and 50-seconds in the attic

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This is important in a short handed situation

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Closing Remarks

1. Short Handed Firefighting is the new normal 2. Your training is critical to a successful outcome 3. Understanding fire behavior and construction 4. Orientation to the event and your ability to make good decisions that are mission driven

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