TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla.—Firefighters with the Tinker Fireplace and Emergency Companies right here performed stay fireplace coaching with college students enrolled within the fireplace academy at Oklahoma State College-Oklahoma Metropolis November 21, 2022, to assist them purchase primary {qualifications} to permit them to search out jobs within the native space.
“TFES has a protracted historical past with metro space fireplace coaching packages,” stated Justin Dulworth, TFES assistant chief of coaching, “We’ve got had off-duty personnel working for coaching facilities within the space for over twenty years and it permits our personnel to foster relationships with metro departments and be taught from fellow firefighters.”
OSU-OKC academies are hosted twice a 12 months and several other days are put aside to assist facilitate the scholars be taught particular abilities.
“We host a number of stay fireplace coaching classes yearly for our personnel and when our schedules align, our personnel will prepare with the academy college students,” stated Dulworth. “Primarily our personnel conduct a number of talent classes throughout these occasions, to incorporate fireplace conduct, fireplace suppression, air flow, search and overhaul operations.”
By using the coaching facility on Tinker, TFES can put together the scholars for his or her future careers in addition to preserve present TFES skilled to face distinctive challenges they might face on base.
“Our coaching advanced has been a four-year venture to improve our services to supply first fee coaching for our personnel,” Dulworth stated. “A number of personnel have had a hand within the improvement, design, construct and implementation of the brand new services. Most bases have some comparable services, however all of them differ as a result of mission necessities, ours has been constructed round what TFES has deemed our high-risk responses.”
“Our T-prop coach is stuffed with movable doorways so we are able to create totally different coaching eventualities,” Alex East, TFES firefighter stated. “We will additionally make it a protracted hallway to imitate a number of the longer buildings on base.”
All through the coaching, firefighters ran by a number of eventualities together with lack of visible as a result of heavy smoke the place firefighters needed to depend on their different senses to speak and efficiently battle the fireplace.
TFES host a number of fireplace departments from across the state of Oklahoma.
“We’ve got partnerships for our plane fireplace coaching with Will Rogers, Tulsa, Stillwater, Ardmore airports, in addition to the 137th Particular Operations Wing and the 507th Air Refueling Wing,” stated Dulworth. We additionally prepare commonly with our mutual-aid companions in Midwest Metropolis, Del Metropolis and Oklahoma Metropolis.”
