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Savage Fire Department Training Info |
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Savage Firefighters are required to maintain their
Firefighter One State Certification of First Responder Status.
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Members received First Responder Refresher training.
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Members attended weekend sectional schools
for Rapid Intervention Training. This is emergency training for saving
residents and firefighters.
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Every Tuesday night the firefighters have a training
session, and once a month members have a monthly business drill.
Between both, more than 4500 hours of training is received by the Savage
Fire Department each year.
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Members also participate in outside training.
Sometimes they go to other departments or they will go to a weekend
sectional class of non-paid training.
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The Savage Fire Department is fortunate
to use
a couple structures to practice their skills. However,
through State laws and OSHA mandates, this is becoming a more difficult
scenario every year. Hopefully, someday between the cities of
Savage, Shakopee and Prior Lake, there will be a training tower that can
be used by the departments.
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Savage partakes in mutual aid training with the Cities of
Prior Lake, Shakopee and Burnsville.
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With the mutual aid training, sectional schools,
Tuesday night training, and the time that firefighters spend at the
station watching training videos on their own, members of the Department
spent about 4000 hours in training annually.
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Firefighters are required to maintain hazardous
material training, operations training, confined space training and
medical emergency training.
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The Fire Dept implemented a new Policy and
Procedural Manual in the year 2001. The manual must be updated every year
to keep up with changes in National Fire Protection Agency (NFP) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements.
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Training
is an essential part of the Savage Fire Department. The Savage Fire Department did mutual aid training
with the Prior Lake, Shakopee and Burnsville Fire Departments. Firefighters are required to maintain their
Firefighter 1 State Certification and First Responder status. All members train every Tuesday
throughout the year.
Hands-on Training
Occasionally,
an old house is donated to the department for training purposes. This gives the communitys firefighters
an opportunity to practice fire suppression and search and rescue drills in a real-life setting, without threat to others.
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| This picture shows the
progress of a fire that started less than 30 minutes earlier. |
When
a search and rescue drill is performed, the department uses a machine to fill the house with smoke. Two "training dummies"
are placed in different rooms to simulate people who may be trapped in a burning home. Crews are then sent inside to rescue
the victims.
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Drills enable the department to practice fire suppression techniques on a structure that is actually in flames. In these
types of drills, the training begins as soon as the home is ignited. Firefighters can watch how quickly the fire spreads
and experience the extreme heat that accompanies a house fire. This drill refreshes the skills of veteran firefighters, and
provides hands-on preparation to newer firefighters who may have yet to encounter their first burning home. The
department also uses donated houses to work on different types of ventilation techniques.
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