Today’s firefighting training still involves lots of warmth,
lots of sudor from knocking down doors to heavy fire fighting equipment operating.
Since it is 2018, trainees of Fire and Rescue Academy of Utah spend
a lot of time in analyzing data, operating touch screens and learning advanced
ways to implement the technology.
As on Friday, a meeting between teams of firefighters held
inside Dixie Center conference room around 3D map projections.
The projections, which highlights from the floor like a
hologram, appear as the mountainous area covering a hillside neighborhood in
northern Utah. The wildland program manager for the UFRA, Dan
Cather made new considerations for vegetation, wind speed, and temperature.
Firefighters get the chance to analyze how traffic might impede their access,
or how a fire would spread, or how an unsuspected gas leak might complicate
situations.
Dan Cather said that with a computerized simulation of the
situation, they can get work model of the possible situations and can set up
hypothetical situations, simulate incidents and be prepared for different
changes in conditions.
He, Cather decided to throw a new challenge, adding chlorine
gas leak that slowly rises and passes towards homes, streets, and vehicles. He
said technology is there we just have to learn to utilize it.
The fire incidents across the western U.S. and California
have raised the expertise of firefighters and citizens expects that their local
departments stay prepared. Training is essential for firefighters to handle
emergency situations especially in rural areas like Utah.
According to Mike Philips the Cedar City Fire Chief, the key
element is that firefighters from smaller fire departments get learning from specialists,
which they can’t get at home. They also get access to the latest techniques and
equipment.
The two-day training session at Dixie Center involves around
700 firefighters and 130 constructors from around the region. And the sessions
set up for everything from driver’s safety to how to investigate a scene to
determine the cause of a fire. They give training on multi-purpose engines to
specialized drones.
Fire Chief Joe Decker, from Kanab, bought six firefighters
with him for a training session. He said that those firefighters are expected
to lead a local training in the upcoming weeks so that rest team could learn
from them.
According to Dave Owens, the incident commander for the
Winter Fire School, they hope that this training session would result in better
public protection and have just as much expertise here as anywhere in the
nation.
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