Members from Boston Bar, Yale, Chilliwack River Valley, Columbia Valley, Hemlock Valley, North Fraser and Cultus Lake attended Tactical Ventilation and Horizontal Fire Flow Paths training over the weekend of Mar. 18 and 19, 2017.
The event was hosted by the North Fraser Fire Department at their Hall #1 on Nicomen Island.
Saturday was a day of theory with the introduction of fire science information that showed some of the theories that firefighters have been taught in the past are incorrect.
The sites of fires may change but the science stays the same.
Sunday was a day to put the sciences to the test with multiple burn props constructed by a number of the local volunteers that were set on fire and the fire growth was observed and manipulated by using the science information learned the day before.
The primary reason for the training was to understand fire growth and where the fire is going to go when certain actions are taken by firefighters or anyone at a scene who alters the air allowed into a burning compartment.
Firefighter and personnel safety is always number one.
The FVRD fire departments would like to thank Fraser Valley Building Supplies (RONA) in Mission for the donation of materials used to construct the burn props that made the course affordable for the departments.