Training Exercise in Cruso April 2002

Early spring of 2002, Cruso and Lake Logan VFD's got together to hold EMS, and firefighting evolutions on a multi-level house, in the Cruso community. Before we commenced with the smoking and burning we practiced emergency patient extractions - ladder extraction enabled us to get a "patient" out of harm's way. The internal staircase in this particular house was an excellent example, of why such a procedure is necessary.

After various EMS drills, using dummies and live patients, we smoked the house and looked for casualties as teams throughout the house. Though wearing air-pacs and face masks, there was zero visibility. Searching was basically down by touch. Additionally, We had to find and extract a heavy log, which simulated the weight of a downed firefighter in his turn-out gear. We practiced entering and egressing as hose teams via the doors, each time putting out the fire before it could envelope the house. We then set the house a-fire for good burning it down completely.

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