Engine Company Operations Training Program
Emergency Vehicle Response announces a new training program designed to enhance the operations of your engine companies. This sixteen hour training class covers hydraulics, hose streams, attack line hose loads, water supply and supply line operations. Engine company staffing levels, riding assignments, equipment and apparatus placement are all covered during the classroom portion of the program.
Practical evolutions include the deployment of small and large diameter attack lines, master stream appliances and standpipe operations. Each department will be challenged to deploy their available engine company resources to produce needed fire flows with emphasis on fire fighter safety and enhancements to improve the advancement of attack lines.
The engine company program combines both classroom and practical exercises designed to advance and improve the operations of the engine company. The class size is limited to thirty personnel and will utilize the equipment and apparatus from the host fire department as well as the in service units from other participating agencies.
Other topics covered during the program include:
- Overview of Engine Company Operations
- Establishing Water Supply
- Calculating Needed Fire Flow and Attack Lines
- Attack Line Nozzles
- The Engine Company “Big 5”
- Operating 2.50 inch Attack Lines
- Standpipe Operations
- Engine Company Hand Tools and Equipment
- Engine Company Staffing and Riding Assignments
- Engine Company Operating Procedures
- Advancing Attack Lines
- Apparatus Positioning for Engine Apparatus
Classroom topics:
- Review Program Objectives
- Engine company considerations
- Hose sizes and flow rates for attack lines
- Hose sizes and flow rates for supply lines
- Alternative water supplies
- Developing needed fire flow
- Nozzle reaction comparison for combination nozzles and smooth bore nozzles
- Fog nozzles and streams
- Smooth bore nozzles and streams
- Nozzle care and maintenance
- Engine company Big 5
- Master stream devices, flow rates and deployment
- 2.50 inch attack line, flow rates and deployment
- Standpipe operations
- Engine company equipment
- Pump operations and hydraulics
- Engine company staffing and riding assignments
- Advancing attack lines
- Engine company positioning on the fire ground
Outside evolutions:
- Pump operations and advancing single 1.75 inch attack line
- Pump operations and advancing 2.50 inch attack line
- Hydrant operations with large diameter hose
- Pump operations with master steams and portable monitors
- Engine company positioning at target hazards
- Testing new attack line hose loads and nozzles
- Practical evolutions with standpipes
- Practical evolutions with ladder pipe master streams
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