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Fire
Training Facility
Leduc
County Fire Services opened the doors to its new Live Fire Training Centre
on October 4th, 2002, thanks to the commitment and vision of its members
and local businesses. Two years of research, planning, designing and
construction went into the training facility which is located at the rear
of Station Number One in the Nisku Industrial / Business Park. Countless
volunteered hours were donated by the department members utilizing their
expertise and dedication. Local businesses also donated materials and
equipment, which turned this vision of a unique training site, into
reality.
The fire training centre offers a
welcoming environment for firefighters from all over the region to
practice and enhance their skills under live fire training conditions. The
driving force behind the development of the training centre was to provide
a quality training centre for local and regional firefighters. It is
beneficial to all municipalities in the region to have skilled and
experienced firefighters in order to increase their preparedness to
emergency responses. This site offers the rare chance to test firefighting
skills in a hazardous, yet controlled environment. Recognized certified
training courses, through fire etc.’s firefighter training series, are
offered to local and regional firefighters.
LPG
(liquefied petroleum gas) Training Props and Simulators
These training props and simulators
enhance the training of firefighters under live fire activities. The props
and simulators use clean burning liquefied petroleum gases that require
teamwork through water fog applications to extinguish or control these
types of fires. Firefighters are challenged under a variety of
circumstances. Teamwork, safety issues and the understanding of the
physical characteristics of flammable gases are paramount in this type of
training exercises.
The LPG structure is designed on two levels which
house a gas riser pipe, upper and lower flanges and a compressor motor
fire prop. In addition, a propane tree and a vessel (tank) simulate what
firefighters may encounter when dealing with pressurized gases. The
training objectives of the LPG props is to control / contain fires through
the use of the team application of hose and nozzle manipulation
techniques. These props demand and challenge tight team work and
leadership of attack / safety teams, under the direction of the attack and
safety coordinators in a congested area.
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Live
Fire Structure
This is a metal structure 12m long
and 3m in height and width that is designed to burn Class “A”
combustible materials. The building has six movable interior doors that
can be rearranged to change the floor plan. A set of outside stairs to the
roof has a working platform where vertical ventilation can be simulated
through a designated hatch.
The objective of this prop is to
extinguish live fire scenarios presented. The intent is not to engage the
student in environments of high heat temperatures but to instruct the
firefighter in proper tactical techniques of rescue, attack, ventilation
and safety under live fire conditions. This prop enhances the tactical
skills of various tactical teams through the application of strong
leadership / command techniques.
This structure is also designed to accommodate
confined space and rope rescues from the working platform on top of the
building. The upper / lower platforms and roof is accessed by means of
three different type of stairs. Ground ladders and the aerial apparatus
are requested, at times, to simulate roof access.
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Sprinkler
and Standpipe Training Building
This building has been
designed to simulate the activation of an assortment of fused sprinkler
heads. The building has a fire department siamese connection that supplies
not only the sprinkler heads but a Class I standpipe. It is also in close
proximity to the Live Fire Structure so that firefighters can make
connections to the F.D. Siamese and utilizes high rise (standpipe kits)
and fight live fires in the adjacent burn structure.
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Smoke
Building
This is a single wide mobile trailer
that has been converted to simulate a normal residential structure and
areas of restricted passage. The trailer is separated into three distinct
rooms. Two of the rooms are built with two levels. The bottom level is
divided into 1 X 1 metre cubicles with siding doors. This allows the
instructors to change the floor plan to prevent repetition. Inside this
prop firefighters are challenged with all kinds of obstacles such as ropes
draped across hallways, floor hatches and interior stairs as they quest in
their search and rescues in a smoke filled environment.
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Vehicle
and Machinery Extrication
There is a designated
area that the firefighters train in vehicle and machinery extrication. On
average the department trains on approximately forty to fifty vehicles a
year. We are very fortunate to have the availability of this large
designated area at the rear of the fire station for this type of training.
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This Fire Training
Facility allows the local and regional departments the luxury of
access to a first-class training facility in their own backyard.
Simulation of hazardous environments that firefighters will encounter
during firefighting activities in structures, incidents involving
pressurized flammable gases, and specialized rescue situations requires a
comprehensive training program that demands a training facility such as
this.
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