On this Vlog Connor experiences the Command Training Center and manages simulated structure fires, Eric gives you a sneak peek at next week's Day in the Life video and of course... patch shout outs!
Connor was great in the blue card segment and I love watching this channel, and it shows me what the other departments show us what they do at the fire station.
As an ICS instructor. This is amazing. The amount of investment the Dept has placed for education and training I truly wish I had a partial of the equipment the South Metro has.
I started watching this channel a while ago, and I really want to be a firefighter now. (I’m 12) I just wanted to say thanks for posting these videos and inspiring me and many other young people to choose this career.
Liked this a lot. I've been watching Chief Decker at the Newark FD for a few months. He parks his vehicle with the best view of the scene he can get and then we hear all the audio while we see the firefighters working. Gave me a much better idea of all the pieces and how they all work together. Between that and your firefighter training school videos I think I'm ready to take a BC spot. ;-) Nice job!
This was a great video getting to see how training is done at SMFR and it appears it can be really intimidating with so many moving parts, just like in real life. A safe way to gain experience and think on your feet while maintaining control of the situation. It is better to experience it here in a safe environment where mistakes can made and noted and corrected so in the event one is dealing with the real thing they will know better how to act and react. Great video and it appears Conner did well in this situation. Thumbs up girl!
This is good information given by professionals, you guys risk everything to save the public, being grateful is not the half of it. It takes a special calling to be a fire fighter or police officer, one responds to dangerous fires, while the other responds to bullets flying!! In my eyes both are Heroes......
SMFR seems like an amazing Department to work for. The never ending training and continued education they provide is just amazing. I wish every Department had the means and ability to operate like SMFR.
Brilliant Video! Hope you got your card, Connor. I've run Incident Command at exercises and a number of incidents. It can be quite challenging as there are a lot of things to consider & evaluate. Being a single-cert EMS agency, there can be a lot of other agencies to interact with jointly.
That is an amazing training center. Would love to have that at our dept, great way to teach the way of different jobs to be prepared for the real deal!
O M G how things have changed since the 60s. Most people have no idea what goes on at a fire it is a lot more than putting water on the fire. Thank you for this video I have been wondering how the command post works.
hey Eric and Connor , cool vlog video very informative , I hope that Connor , gets her Command blue card . The Battalion sim looks cool and fun . Be safe guys :0)
Hello greetings from Colombia I love your blogs and all the videos of SOUTH METRO FIRE RESCUE and I will try to send my patch my fire station thank you very much for everything
Congrats Connor, looks like your training is going well. Is the blue card training class the base level of command training and are there other levels? Connor, did you choose to take this training class on your own or is this a requirement for PIO's? Your channel is amazing and I have learned so much, I wish every department was able to have a channel like yours. Thank you for your service and stay safe. God Bless.
As someone who likes strategy and tactics would love to see a couple of videos on your I.C.S tactics. Whether its a mock scenario or you's follow a D.C or B.C around and film the command post.
Hello Connor and Eric. GREAT set of programs and a great way to get your message out to the community. I have a few questions if you would let me: 1: were the two of you first firefighters with SMFR and worked your way into your current positions or were you hired as PIOs? 2: are you considered lieutenants or captains in the organizational chart? 3: what training do you have - other than fire training - i.e. degree in public relations or communications 4: do you do any active/immersive outreach programs for the local community, media, politicians? 5: do you video operations at active scenes to later review for training purposes and do you operate a drone over major incidents as a tool for the incident commander? I was a firefighter with the Alpha Fire Co., of State College, PA (Penn State) for 21 years and we did a lot of active outreach. I have a degree in telecommunications from Penn State and 8 years with PBS and enjoyed mixing the two. In my early years I did a lot of video & still documentation of investigations and operations besides being an active firefighter. For example, before I received my state vehicle rescue cert, I would ride out on the rescue and video the operations so we could debrief and review afterwords and look to see were we may need more training. But I digress. Our immersive outreach goes back many years. I would put fire demonstrations on at our training site for the news media. The biggest was Christmas tree fire safety combined with residential sprinklers. We burned 2 trees in separate rooms to show how fast a Christmas tree can burn. The second one was in a room with a functioning sprinkler head in it. One of the news videographer jumped out of his boots when teh sprinkler head popped off. One of the largest and longest lasting programs was our Firefighter For a Day Program, up to 5 members of the community would stay with us for a 26-27 hour to see what being a firefighter was like. The FFDs would meet at the station on a Friday at 5 PM to get assigned gear, taught how to put it on and then taught how to put on an SCBA. They would then join in the dinner and get assigned a bunk and spend the night with the crews at the station riding to calls throughout the night. In the morning they would then go to our SCBA training maze, then do 2 hours of vehicle extrication, fallowed by a few hours of fire operations. After the fire operations they would then each have the chance to put out car fires. The day would end with a family meal at the firehouse were the FFDs families would be invited to join us for dinner. Participants ranged from college students, local residents, news media members and politicians. The latter two groups were very helpful to the department. It let the media members and politicians see and feel what it is like to be firefighters giving them more understanding of out job and why we need them to help us do that job. The first two groups, students and local residents would lead to new members of our department. We didn't get 100% of the participants to join but close to 50%. I forgot to mention, we are all volunteer protecting 4 municipalities and Penn State's University Park Campus. In all, about 100,000 people. Have you ever done any programs like our Firefighter For a Day?
looks like an awesome training facility. All new since I retired. I remember when the chiefs in the video not only were not chiefs but also had no gray hair. Ha.
8:25 - Working Multi Residential Structure Fire Call. Working Fire on All 3 Floors. 10:14: South Metro Medic 31 on Dispatch Reports on the Scene: "I Did Not Complete A 360 And Apperars To Be A Possible Firewall but You're Getting The Written Word As Well".
I'm surprised your BCs don't have aides! BC aides are incredibly valuable. They not only drive the chief to the scene, but they at some other departments also work as either inside or outside safety officers on fire grounds. I have also known where the aides can operate as staging officers as well as in an EMS Duty Officer. While responding to the incident, the BC can concentrate more on the incident while the aide operates the buggy safely. BTW, where BC Vargo get that jacket? I'm asking for a friend...
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO Do you guys have an Email address for the general public? I started typing out a followup and the next thing I knew I was typing paragraph three. It is very positive and I hope a supportive response.
Hey! I just recently stumbled across your channel and all the amazing videos you have here. I love what you're doing! I am applying for the SMFR and am wondering if you have any advice about the process? Also, one question about all your units, I noticed that they are equipped with blue lights. Why is that?
Please keep the two fallen firefighters in ur prayers from here in Porterville,Ca in mid to late Feb two juveniles set the Porterville library on fire and during the efforts of fighting that fire two firefighters one a newly named captain and a firefighter where both killed it took around 12 hrs to contain the fire and get it put out it has been a lot to process for this small city of just over 60,000 people.
Greetings from South Florida. What is the name of the training simulator and is the driving program part of the simulator or separate? Would like to look into this training for my department. Thank you.
Iv been with the fire service 30 years 15 years old rode my bike to the station even at 1am ! in snow ! South Metro is a fire department that knows its stuff ! I wish we had that command in my department
You guys can’t seem to not shock me, you have everything you can think of, how you can’t be ranked number one in the U.S I don’t know. Now quick question, the front door is Alpha side, right? And how does the side labeling work for a house on the corner?
In that case it will be the side when command is located will be alphs. Actually this is most often determined by the first arriving unit, not necessarily a BC.
Hi I'm from PA I was wondering if I could get a look at your guys command board in further detail I think it is very unique and would love to implement something similar into our department
This video has left me with an interesting question with a PIO being command trained where if anywhere would the PIO sit in the rank/command structure or would they exist outside the rank structure
The PIO. Is part of the command staff along with safety and agency liaisons. A PIO such as Eric would not normally command a fire, however Eric was actually put in this situation when he responded to a fire very near his house.
@@lindahoff7391 this is why I was asking as where I’m from we don’t really have pio’s so don’t really know all the intricacies of it so they would be able to take command of a fire scene if absolutely necessary even if it was just for a short time until an actual command officer (for lack of a better term) arrived
@@lindahoff7391 granted I understand that it would be an extreme circumstance and a rarity rather than the norm and there’s a lot more to it such as fire ground experience etc. But the skills would be there?
Usually department's are assigned shifts, each station has a shift roster each shift, which are usually made by the station's assigned battalion chief. My guess, since BC's are in-charge of staffing usually, they make contact with a Battalion and see when they can ride out, then ask the crew if they can make a video with them. Just my guess.
I am curious to know who provides fire fighter rehab services to the south metro fire fighters when they are on the scene of fire incidents that require rehab? I am the Southeastern New Hampshire Hazmat District Rehab Team leader. I was given a task by our the hazmat district that we work with 3 years ago to put a rehab response team together to help first responders at emergancy and non emegancy scenes. Our rehab program consists of gross Decon, hydration, shelter, heating of first responder during the winter, cooling first responders during the summer months, we provide fire fighters with dry socks as well as dry gloves and hats, hand warms during the winter months we also provide food as well as medical monitoring when requested by ems on scene some of our members are not emts but some are. we are all volunteer we respond to about 30 calls a year or service we are in our 3rd year of operation. We respond to structure fires 2 alarms or greater brush fires 2 alarms or greater. hazmat incidents , MCI's we also do training stand bys for training burns ice rescue training and hot weather trainings. thank you for putting all these videos out they are very educational and help a lot keep up the great work you guys im look foward to next the day in life video coming up. Just curious also anyone else that reads these posts who does rehab services for your fire departments just curious thank you be safe everyone
A lot of the Firefighter rehab for the larger incidents is done by the Arapahoe Rescue Patrol, a volunteer high-school-age S&R Organization in the South Metro Area. Some more details are on this first-due video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PZG2IwVuXZc.html (10:10 if the timestamp doesn't work).
@@ThatOneRoadie out standing thank you for replying same with ours we reachout to cert teams in southern New Hamphire there is w wide age range they do a great job. If anyone on out that why needs any ideas to help I would be happy to share our misson model
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO Thank you for replying to my question. If there are any fire departments out in colorado that may be trying to start up a rehab program I would be happy to share our misson model and SOG's have a great week looking foward to the day in life video be safe
What is the side designation for structures that have more than four exterior walls? Is that the number that followed the designation, or is it something different?
