Today the recruit firefighters participated in a National Fire Academy course entitled "Calling the Mayday". This course is designed to train firefighters, new and veteran, how and when to call a mayday. Some instances where maydays should be called include; when a firefighter becomes lost, trapped, falls through a floor or runs low on air and can't make it out before the air supply is gone. The firefighters used the Mayday Training Trailer designed and built by the training committee of the St. Albans Fire Dept. The trailer has confined space areas, entanglement and entrapment areas and a floor collapse simulator. All the recruits did very well in the training trailer, a couple even got a cool injury to show off for the next couple of days.
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