Prepare4 / Rescue

09/30/2026

Setting up and getting ready for the first night of lecture for our blended delivery NFPA 1407 course. This course will be taking place over the next three weeks. Students will partake in two evenings of lecture before taking written exams and meeting up in two weeks to do 2 and a half days of hands on training.

07/07/2026

Getting an order ready to ship.

03/15/2026

Great weekend with the members of Tofino Fire as we completed the hands on portion of our OFC and NFPA 1002 chapter 5 Pumps and Pumping Course.

01/05/2026

If our Nozzle takes thier corners wide and the Back up firefighters, feed the corners, we can use the building to your advantage as you navigate the structure. You can use the building to help absorb and manage your nozzle reaction along with generally giving you a better angle on the fire and fire compartment by taking the wider corners.

11/09/2025

Easy tic drill #3
Get a metal and a wooden kitchen utensil and place a sticker or tape on one side of the utensils (preferably black)
Place the utensils in the fridge for a few hours to full cool down.
Show students the utensils in the fridge then remove them to a kitchen counter. Take note how they show on the screen. The metal utensil shows up "hotter" both of the countertop and the wooden utensil. Get students to touch the utensils and see they are clearly both cold. Take note the spot temperature readings showing you again the metal utensil as "hotter" then the wooden. Then flip the utensils over to the side with the tape. The tape now gives the same emmisivity on both objects and will likley show the metal is colder then the wood due to the metal retaining the cold from the fridge longer on the counter top, move off the sticker and the metal will still read "hotter". Then take the utensils and place them in the freezer and see how the once dark spoon "cold" shows up now white "hot".
This drill again renforces importance of understanding emisivity in fire spaces and spot temperatures not only being effected by it but also the colour scheme on the display. White does not mean hot on a tic but "hotter" as black does not mean "cold" simply colder, and all that is only if the emmisivity of everything in the field of view stands to be the same.
We can bring this in easily with the other two drills along with some theory material to really show the limitations of the tool so we can better understand it and use it most effectively. The tic provides us with extra information of our environment but its important to understand if that information is accurate and/or how it relates to the overall enviroment you are in. Like much the information we take in to make decisions in the fire ground very little is absolute in its own context but when all put together and understood we can then move to make more informed desicions.

10/25/2025

10/06/2025

Solid 40 hours training with some of the departments senior trainers.

09/29/2025

Great day 3 to finish off the NFPA 1407 training with this dedicated group of Firefighters!

09/28/2025

Lots more hard work put in today by this dedicated group. Another full day tomorrow!

09/27/2025

First evening of NFPA 1407 course done with this enthusiastic group of Firefighters! Excited for the next two days training with them. Along with a bit wildlife wondering around today.