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MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY
By Assistant Chief Adam Grossman
March 1, 2010
The topic of training on Monday March 1st, 2010 was mayday operations, buddy breathing, rapid intervention and basic Self Contained Breathing Apparatus operations. All of these components are crucial in the life safety of a firefighter and should be refreshed frequently.
A MAYDAY operation was the first topic of discussion such as when to call a MAYDAY, what to do when you call a MAYDAY and how to save yourself when you're in that situation. Personnel practice calling a MAYDAY and the LUNAR report to give in that transmission. The LUNAR report is a synonym for Location, Unit, Name, Air level and Resources needed to extricate you or one of your fellow firefighters in a MAYDAY situation. All parts of the LUNAR report are vital information in the extrication and accountability of firefighters.
Buddy breathing is something that can be done when one firefighter connects to another firefighter's SCBA due to being low or completely out of breathing air in their own SCBA. Our SCBA are Scott NXG2's complimented with buddy breathing capabilities, a heads up air display on your regulator connected to your face piece and a universal RIT connection, that can be connected by a RIT bag. Our cylinders are 4500 PSI and are rated to have 45 minutes of breathing air time.
After going over the basic operations of SCBA and MAYDAYs, firefighters then presented their skills by calling a MAYDAY and deploying a rapid intervention team to extricate the downed firefighter from the building. Thank you to all the volunteers that came out to train to better their selves and their fire company.
Firefighter's prepare to don their SCBA in under 60 seconds.
Captain Conroy is excited by our weekly training.
Firefighter Miller breaks down after donning in 60 seconds.
EMS Captain Mike Audette also excited about weekly training.
Firefighter Piacentini gets his SCBA packaged onto him as a demonstration.
Assistant Chief Grossman demonstrates how "packaging" a down firefighter will benefit you in the long run.
Firefighter Zwick and Miller connect to each other in the buddy breathing drills.
Firefighter Loesch and EMS Captain Audette demonstrate how to buddy breath.
Another buddy breathing connection by Firefighter Piacentini and Assistant Chief Grossman.
Captain Conroy and Firefighter Reed become proficient at the buddy breathing operation.
Firefighters Zwick and Reed entered a "burning" building on a hose line and were overcome by a roof collapsed and declared a mayday situation over the radio to the incident commander.
The RIT team enters to rescue the down and disoriented firefighters.
The down firefighter was packaged and began to be extricated from the building.
Assistant Chief Grossman acted as the training officer and incident commander for tonight's drills.
