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Show This Week's Fire Dept. Training Session Training on Monday, February Feb-ruary 22 included extensive practical application in room search and rescue. Using taped-over masks on air-packs, air-packs, two man teams entered rooms at Marsac ' school and thoroughly searched each room, locating and rescuing a human "victim." Conditions were designed to resemble actual situations found in a burning structure -- tipped over chairs, etc. Actual conditions vary quite a bit in a real emergency situation according accord-ing to Captain Jim White. Smoke, heat, dripping water and poor communications can add to the confusion of the situation. Captain White demonstrated a variety oi carries or "drags" to remove a victim from a room or building. Back at the Park Avenue station, a group under the direction of Assistant Chief Jim Santy went through an exercise using the department's depart-ment's communication simulator. simu-lator. The simulator was developed and perfected by Santy and others to create a visual and audial image of an emergency at any location in the fire district. Tonight's "disasters" included an explosion in the kitchen of Utah Coal and Lumber and a school bus accident on 1-80. The simulatotwlso gives firefighters practice in using the Utah 10 ;iao.des in fireground communications. There were r.. mentbers present for training. Fire alarms from February 15 to February 22: False alarm at Park station, car fire in a garage in Timber'.ine. Quick response prevented a structure involvement, in-volvement, gas leak at Janeau's, electrical Fire at homestake condos, burning fireplace residue on a back porch on Lowell Avenue, propane tanker roll-over on highway 40. medical assist and extrication on an automobile auto-mobile accident on Hwy 40, car fire on highway 224, construction fire at Siiver King condos, trash fire at Summit Park, broken sprinkler sprink-ler at Wolfe's at the resort, medical assist on a car accident on Parley's Summit on 1-80, smoke scare at Snowflowcr condos. Tip of the week: make sure fire place residue is really out and contains no smoldering smolder-ing embers before you put the ashes in a dumpster or anywhere they could flair up. |