For the past two Monday nights, April 19th & 26th, members of Flourtown ventured down the Blue Route to the Prospect Park Fire Company in Delaware County for some hands on forcible entry training. Crews got to experience as real world as possible training on an impressive door prop built by Firehouse Innovations. Multiple scenarios [...]
Sunday morning March 21st, Flourtown was invited by Wissahickon Fire Co. to an acquired structure for roof ventilation training. A group of members took full advantage of this seldom training opportunity. They were able to learn and fine tune their skills, using vent saws, working off of roof ladders and venting a roof working off of the [...]
Flourtown Fire Company has been state-certified in the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission – PA SWIFTWATER RESCUE COURSE Some training photos of the crew training in the Schuylkill River, near Norristown, PA and Lower Merion, PA
Flourtown Fire Company holds a weekly training session every Monday night (except major holidays) starting at 7PM. Training varies from a live burn exercise and a County Fire Training facility to classroom training session on a topic such as Hazardous Materials Operations. The photos below show some of the training Flourtown Fire Company conducts. Outside [...]
FFCo takes a training class on the safe operation of their new airbags for Squad 6. July 2009 Images of Practical Training Session
Officers from the Flourtown Fire Company and Wyndmoor Hose Company were invited to attend the Wissahickon Fire Company Firefighter Camp Graduation. Both Flourtown and Wyndmoor had future junior firefighters participate in the camp. Congratulations Guys! From left: Wyndmoor Chief Fran DePaul, Wyndmoor Captain Pete Bistline, Wyndmoor Camper Patrick Dolan, Flourtown Camper Dave Brierly, Flourtown Camper [...]
High-angle rescue training.
In May 2006, Flourtown Fire Company joined companies and first-responder organizations from throughout Montgomery County in a Mass Casualty Training Exercise at the Springfield Township High and Middle Schools. Some images from the day-long training, black and white photos by Regina Rahill: Images of the Mass Casualty Training (May 2006) Springfield High School
