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The Backup Firefighter Position

Tue, 15 Feb 2011|




[BLANK_AUDIO] [MUSIC] [SOUND] I'm Ray McCormack. Welcome to Training Minutes. In this segment, we're gonna show you the importance of how to do the back up firefighter position. In our first segment, you're going to see the back up firefighter follow the nozzle firefighter. This is incorrect when making a turn. The nozzle firefighter makes their turn, the backup firefighter should swing in the opposite direction. As the backup firefighter, your movements are direct opposite of those of the nozzle firefighter. [SOUND]. [NOISE]. Any time you go through a doorway you wanna make sure you get through it as quickly as possible and move to one side of the doorway or the other when you make entrance into this new room. The heat level, is going to try and come down, and out of that doorway, at you. This is the hottest place, that you could stay. So you don't want to stay there, any longer, than necessary. Anytime you're in a doorway, make your move around it as quickly as possible. So you stay out of that high heat area. In this example, we see that backup firefighter moving in the opposite direction of the nozzle firefighter when they're making that turn. What that does for us, it gives us additional hose to make that turn, and it keeps the line intact, in as straight a position as possible, making it easier for the nozzle fighter to operate the nozzle. [SOUND] [NOISE] [MUSIC] The roll of the back up fire fighter is crucial to proper extinguishment. If you know how to move in the opposite direction of the nozzle fire fighter, you're gonna make that fire advance that much easier. That much safer and that much quicker. Remember do everything opposite of the naval firefighter and we'll get it done. I'm Ray McCormick and this has been training minute.

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