Page 38, Fire News, October/November 2021
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Training
Powhatan Live Burn Training
Recently, Powhatan Fire Department did a live burn training exercise at the 3000 block of Anderson Highway, on a donated house. Powhatan Fire Department has been training at this house the last several months. Their trainings have consisted of ventilation, stretching lines, roof vent operations, search and rescue, and hooking ceilings. The final training consisted of setting several rooms on
fire several times and fire crews making the push knocking down the fire and stopping at the front door. Over the past few months fire crews held 22 training classes totaling 692 hours of training. Powhatan, Chesterfield and Richmond Police held six training classes totaling 840 hours of training. - Fire News photos by Carter Killorn & Hayden Lear
Large Animal Rescue Class
From August 28 to 30, 2021, Little Fork’s Volunteer Technical Large Animal Rescue Team sent 15 newer members to an operations-level class held in Loudoun County, Virginia. The agency has 22 members who previously attended the class and practical scenarios. Dr. Rebecca Gimenez; BS, PhD (animal physiology), taught the course. Dr. Gimenez, is the President of Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue (TLAER). Her first book, Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue, was published in 2008. She is an internationally sought instructor in technical rescue techniques, procedures, and methodologies, and has published numerous critiques, articles and journal submissions on horse safety, technical large animal rescue and horse
handling issues. Dr. Gimenez teaches TLAER around the world and assisted with writing NFPA 1670 the National Standard on technical rescue techniques for fire and rescue. This event provided the additional core training for the EMTs and firefighters to be considered as qualified as a TLAR Technician and members of our Technical Large Animal Rescue Team. Congratulations to the following volunteers who participated: Sarah Waltman, Julia Waltman, Robert Ellis, Eldon Frederick, Landan Kitis, James Verrocchio, Cynthia Tetterton, Jason Tetterton, Tori Gongwer, Jasper Faulk, Jeff Stafford, Naomi Hurley, Sean Brown, Susa Smith and Victoria Simpson. - Photos courtesy of the Little Fork Volunteer LART
