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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. Theirtrainings 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. Overthe 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 VolunteerTechnical Large Animal Rescue Team sent 15 newermembers 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). Herfirst book, Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue, was published in 2008. She is an internationally sought instructorin 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 NFPA1670 the National Standard on technical rescue techniques forfire and rescue. This event provided the additional core training forthe EMTs and firefighters to be considered as qualified as a TLAR Technician and members of ourTechnical 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, JasperFaulk, Jeff Stafford, Naomi Hurley, Sean Brown, Susa Smith and Victoria Simpson. - Photos courtesy of the Little Fork Volunteer LART