Training

TRAINING DIVISION DIVISION

RECRUIT TRAINING

Chandler Fire has wrapped up the Internship and offers were extended to nine recruits. They are part of a 14 week regional fire academy along with Scottsdale, AFMA, and Tolleson, utilizing the new phases of our Public Safety Training Center, that started on October 19th. The recruits of this academy will graduate on January 29th.

3RD QUARTER TRAINING Third Quarter Fire Training went very well. We appreciate the diligence in learning and being receptive to new skills, displayed by all crews who came down for the sessions. CFD crews exceeded at the tasks presented and we found a few takeaways.

Ensure you have additional lighting on your PPE, such as the flashlight from your apparatus. We saw individuals who lost power to helmet lights and were left without a light source.

Members should always be training with their PPE to remind them what specific additional tools that they carry in their turnouts, and in which pocket it is located.

Having to observe COVID precautions during training was a new benchmark for us, but as always, our crews followed instructions and navigated it flawlessly.

With the addition of a new ladder company to our department and the instance of members working on these units increasing, fourth quarter re training will be driven around ladder company functions with regard to residential ventilation and deploying larger ground ladders. We will be having crews utilize our ground level props for residential ventilation cuts.