The Irons Academy: H.O.T.
(Room VBFTC)
22 Feb 18
8:00 AM
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5:00 PM
Tracks:
Hands On Training (H.O.T.)
As fire ground tactics and procedures continue to evolve, the focus tends to fall away from the fundamental and foundational fire ground skills. No matter your stance on current fire ground tactical debates, you will always need to access a building; however, many firefighters are not proficient at accessing buildings. This course focuses on increasing efficiency through proficiency and places a focus on using the most reliable tools, the irons, for accessing buildings. Learning and proficiency is achieved by understanding the tools and developing a system of steps that will allow the attendee to establish a working foundational approach when forcing doors with conventional tools. This course is focused on strengthening and building upon the participant’s foundational forcible entry skill sets and developing muscle memory. The instructors will focus on what academies and manuals commonly fail to teach or explain, and will demonstrate and teach street proven techniques. This course is reality based training, and not theory based teaching. Requirements: Full firefighting PPE, SCBA and mask. Hearing protection is recommended. Students are recommended to bring any forcible entry tools they want to use. This is a full 8 hour course with hands-on work. This course can be physically demanding at times. Students should be in good physical condition. This course will be held at the Virginia Beach Training Center. There is a 25 student limit for this class.