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Tuesday July 30, 2024

Three members completed the Truck Company Operations course last night at the Scranton Fire Company!  

"Students spent eight hot July evenings building ladder skills, venting roofs, performing large area search, conducting Vent-Enter-Isolate-Search (VEIS) maneuvers from ladders into zero visibility conditions, forcing doors, breaking locks, and cutting chains, rebar, and steel posts with rotary saws. These training units helped prepare the firefighters to function as "truck company" members. 

Truck work includes the use of ground ladders, overhaul of fire fuel after extinguishment, ventilation, forcible entry, search/rescue of victims, salvage of property, and utility control. These functions complement and support the effort of the engine company, whose task is to advance handlines to the fire area and effect extinguishment."

While we don't have a ladder truck, truck company work is vital to every fire scene.  The course was only 24 hours of instruction, but students worked hard for the entirety of the skills intensive course.  Thank you to the NYS OFPC and Erie County fire instructors who shared their wide range of knowledge and experience with the students.

Please join us in congratulating firefighter Jacob Schweickert and Assistant Chiefs Nick Siminski and Jordan Roblee for completing this course and bringing these skills back to Sardinia.