Department Drill Tuesday Nights – Live Fire
Department Drill Night – Tuesday, November 10th, 2020 – Live FireLast night, collective members from all three SWFD companies trained in live fire scenarios with the help of Flash Fire Industries. Flash Fire brought their Mobile Training Trailer to town and set us up with two different classes-in-one: VES (Vent-Enter-Search) and “Can Confidence”. VES is […]
Drill nights in August, 2020
As social distancing protocols remain in place, we continue to break down all our training into company-level drills, versus department-wide. Normally, this training style is incorporated heavily in our drill schedule regardless, but the members have received quite a bit of it over the last few months. Lifting/Stabilization: While you’ve seen our Rescue Squad focus […]
Training Drills on Tuesdays Nights
Tuesday night is drill night. Each of the three companies performs each drill on a rotating basis. On Tuesday 7/16, the SWFD drilled individually by company: Station 1 participated in a drafting drill at Dzen Pond off of Barber Hill Road. The mechanics of drafting water from a static water source is a necessary bit of […]
Metal Cutting Training 2019
Drill Night – 11/26/19 For the past three weeks, metal cutting has been a company-level drill. Tonight, Company 3 had this rotation and worked on several different evolutions. Stations were set up for ring cutting, glass cutting, auger/machine entrapment, impalement, and carriage bolt cutting for forcible entry. While our Rescue Squad trains extensively on machinery […]