Smoke Divers

Advanced SCBA Training and Survival Course
When things go wrong inside, have the skills to get you and your crew out alive.
Applications being taken for Fall Class on September 15 & 16.
This is the ultimate in a fully packed out survival course. This course takes you to the edge mentally and
physically and then teaches you how to SURVIVE.

Functioning as an interior structural firefighter can present unknown challenges around every corner. A hazardous environment and potentially
hazardous situations can present a scenario that standards do not encompass. While there are no guarantees, this training course is designed to
take an experienced firefighter and teach him/her practical advanced survival skills in full gear with SCBA. The course is extremely challenging,
intensely physical, and will take the student to his/her limit. Because of the difficulties some may experience, paramedics are on hand to monitor
students before, during, and after each exercise. "Smoke Divers" training consists of some classroom, but mostly practical scenarios that will
culminate in a final exercise that requires the use of all skills taught in the course. Within the course curriculum are skill objectives that must be
accomplished by the student in order to graduate. The objectives can not be wavered.
A twenty-hour training program, "Smoke Divers" is taught over a single weekend at the Beaumont Emergency Services Training (BEST),
Complex, a division of Industrial Safety Training Council (ISTC). Course instruction will necessitate full days on both Saturday and Sunday.
Competency in personal protective equipment, SCBA, and fire ground practices are a prerequisite. This is neither a SCBA training course, nor a
search and rescue course. While the course is not designed to fail students, they will not be coddled. Any student thinking this is just another
training course will have difficulty.
All of the skills taught at "Smoke Divers" can be taken back by the students and taught to his/her own department personnel. While some
exercises may be difficult for a department to duplicate, modified versions can be set-up at little expense. Graduates can share their skills with
other department members and also work to prepare future students for "Smoke Divers".

Published 02/09/06 Updated 5/15/12

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