This video is a tutorial for beginners or members looking to lower their SCBA time. There are many techniques to lowering your time some will help others will not. These are the basics.
Thank you Firefighter Tyrone Hurst & I learned so much about the SCBA & Mask but this helped me a lot of this. I am a career firefighter for the Fort Wayne Fire Department for 21 years now & my rank is captain & I have been a fire captain for 13 years now.I am stationed at Station 15 & my shift is C.
Great video! My Dept is going through a transition, bring the medic on to the fire side, can I use this video as a training tool for them? Thanks! Markus
I remember when we had sperian, those things were the absolute worse, straight garbage. Later switched over to scott and have stayed with the company for decades. And are ya allowed to go into jobs with no bunker pants ? I see in San Fran some have operated exactly how you look in the vid
Tyrone Hurst By the way, I have a lot of respect for those who share their techniques in order to help others. This is a very good video. Thanks brother!
I never understood this drill. Unless your SOP is that your SCBA is stored outside the cab of the rig (which might be the case in LA) you should already have it on when your boots hit the ground on scene. I think it’s more realistic just practicing your mask up once you have all your stuff already on. Idk LA SOP’s so maybe this is a realistic drill. Can someone educate me? Also if you’re a brand new guy watching this, learn to mask up with your gloves on. It takes a lot of practice and you’re gonna get frustrated and you’ll be convinced that you just can’t do it as fast this way but I promise you can learn it. Just keep doing it. Practice every morning before your shift starts. And when you get discouraged thinking it’s just impossible, Think about how many nozzles you can steal from people if you’re able to mask up just as fast but with your gloves on. While they are still screwing around with their gloves in the hallway you’ve snatched that nozzle away and are at the door to the fire room. Nothing better than the sound of your buddy whining about getting his nozzle stolen at a job. The tears hydrate my soul.
From my understanding LAFD is not allowed to put on their SCBA inside the cab because you have to take off your seatbelt. LAFD has had many accidents with FF's and seatbelts so they have to keep their seatbelt on until the apparatus has come to a complete stop.
@@coopthetitan yeah I figured that might be the case in LA but didn’t know for sure. They are allowed to have their turnout gear on in the rig though right? I know they are big on the clean cab initiative so I’d be curious to know how far they take it. I’m on the East coast where virtually none of these regulations exist let alone enforced.
Easy when you’re not wearing gloves. Do it with gloved hands so you won’t have to waste time putting them on at the end. keep your helmet strap loose so you won’t have to loosen it when you have to take it off to put the face piece on. have 3 of the 4 tabs pre pulled on the face piece so you won’t have to pull 2. Be ready to go to work once you are off that rig. Btw your mask is the whole thing. The facepiece is the part on your head not the mask.
Scott Timiney because they are basically modified construction helmets. You ever see a heavy duty construction helmet. No because light weight plastics are strong enough for the job.
