Search & Rescue
Fire Science Students are Finding Their Way...
by Robert Brown
January 25, 2010
The students in the Fire Science class are currently doing skills practice for interior building search and rescue. The drills are designed to reinforce the lessons learned in the classroom and build essential skills for the critical task of searching for occupants of buildings, who may be trapped, pinned, injured, lost, unconscious or otherwise in distress and in need of rescue.
Drills are conducted at the Morris Fire Station. Throughout the month of January, a series of mazes have been set up to simulate different conditions that may be encountered by firefighters as they perform search and rescue operations. Those obstacles include furniture and fixtures; locked or blocked entrances/exits; floor, roof or wall collapse; narrow passages; wire or cable entanglement; stud walls to simulate breaching a wall to gain access or egress; culvert pipe to simulate confined spaces; truss roof and attic spaces.
Students are organized into three Battalions (time blocks) listed below.
Battalion 1: Thomas Taylor, Keegan Anderson, Kenneth Briley, Stephanie Constanzo, Brandon Matuszewski, Jacob Meyerhoff, Brian Paros and Brandon Sheldon.
Battalion 2: Grant Bachner, Joshua Blaskey, Jordan Bruyn, Vincent Enriques, Sean Fallon, Joshua Henschen, Branden Odom, Julio Perez, Ricardo Vallejo, Lucas Vickers, Brenton Ward, Alec Wills and Ryan Wunsch.
Battalion 3: Cody Jones, Nicholas Bokoski, Peter Burbank, Kelsey Farmer, Zach Mann, William McMillan, Tanner Olynick, Kyler Phillips, Bridget Rakidzic, Thomas Sandeno, Brenton Swearingen and Ryan Wagner.
Thanks to Morris Fire Chief Robert Coleman and the Chief Shabbona Fire Association for providing the facilities for this training.
