I headed out again this year to Las Vegas for Fire-Rescue Med. I attended last year and found it well worth the trip. I really wanted to go again this year so I made sure I put in my training request early. I recommend EMS Personnel and Narcotics Tampering: Awareness and Prevention, interesting stuff. I saw Randolph Mantooth at the conference last year and am looking forward to seeing him again. This was an old post and the original video was out of date. I have updated with a nice video of Mantooth discussing becoming a real paramedic.
Many departments have a roof prop available at their training grounds, but it is not always convenient to use. It's nice to have something compact available at the station that can be used for practice. The guys are always asking me to help them build something and I have found several sites that have some good pictures and diagrams which can be used to help build your own roof training prop.
Fire Engineering has some good articles with photos. Here are some good links listed below:
Adjustable Roof Prop
Ventilation Prop
There are also quite a few posts out there regarding roof props on the fireengineering.com forums.
Some more pictures of three different props at the DCFD training facility are posted at www.vententersearch.com
For a variety of pictures of inexpensive training props, you can check out this document from the Indiana Dept of Homeland Security. It contains close up pictures and estimated costs to build.
Fire Engineering has some good articles with photos. Here are some good links listed below:
Adjustable Roof Prop
Ventilation Prop
There are also quite a few posts out there regarding roof props on the fireengineering.com forums.
Some more pictures of three different props at the DCFD training facility are posted at www.vententersearch.com
For a variety of pictures of inexpensive training props, you can check out this document from the Indiana Dept of Homeland Security. It contains close up pictures and estimated costs to build.
