It's that time of year again.....the ARFF simulator. The past two days have been full of ARFF goodness. Tuesday we played with pit fires, for those who aren't familiar the pit fires simulate a fuel fire with "mats" that are fed with propane. They require you to approach it with the truck and extinguish the "blaze" with either the bumper nozzle or the "snozzle". Next lesson was what I like to call the "lobster in a can" drill. They simulate a fire in the passenger compartment of an aircraft, but the simulator is more like a big can(you can assume which part we played in the drill). Today we got our "learn on" with brake fires and engine fires....yay. One added bonus to the day is that we got to check out the big UPS cargo plane.....being sneaky as I am I was able to snap some pics of the top secret stuff we saw. We would also like to thank Brady and Gish(our fill-ins) for being such good sports about our training. For a final thought.......always remember your PPE!
Pit Fires
Captain Wallace and Schrader making "entry" into the can.
Lt. Weaver and Gish fighting the big one.
Future ARFF Captain
Gathering outside the UPS plane.
Engine Fire
UPS Cargo Plane
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