Firefighters test new training props built by Springfield high schoolers

SPRINGFIELD – Breathing through an air tank, firefighter Brian Mackey practiced crawling through a wooden box, pushing aside ...
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New Dallas Training Prop Pays Homage to Fallen Firefighter

More than 14 years ago, a Dallas Fire-Rescue engine carrying senior firefighter Milton Williams and Lt. Todd Krodle pulled up to a burning two-story apartment building in west Oak Cliff. The two ...
WWLP

Student-built props enhance firefighter safety in Springfield

The Springfield Fire Department collaborated with students from Putnam Vocational Technical Academy on Wednesday for a ...
Dallas Morning News

Dallas Fire-Rescue unveils training prop honoring firefighter killed in 2011 blaze

Dallas Fire-Rescue firefighters Payten Snell (left) and Kade Roberts (right) use a rescue technique to pull Dustin Jackson through a roof opening during a Lt. Todd Krodle Firefighter Rescue Drill ...
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Firefighter Training Requires Hands-On Proficiency

John J. Salka Jr. explains why the true value and importance of training only are clinched when hands-on evolutions are ...
WAFB

Louisiana Fire Academy installs state’s first carbon dioxide pipeline training prop

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Louisiana Fire and Emergency Training Academy has installed the state’s first carbon dioxide pipeline training prop, eliminating the need for firefighters to travel to ...
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Grand Junction firefighters turn old mattresses into training props

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - The Grand Junction Fire Department (GJFD) turned their old mattresses into a training tool last week, repurposing the bedding to prepare Station 1 crews for confined ...