This year’s Annual Deputy Drill focused on a large-scale Wildfire training at the Plymouth/Carver Airport area.  For many years, the airport has been kind enough to allow us to use a large rear wooded parcel to practice our breaker driving skills under realistic conditions.  An estimated 150 Officers and Firefighters from 9 Towns and State agencies, utilizing 14 Brush Breakers, 1 Forestry Truck, 2 Tankers, 2 Engines, numerous Command Vehicles, and Chief Officers, participated in the morning exercise.  The drill focused on brush breaker driver operator training techniques, wildfire crew operations, water resupply training, a chainsaw safety class, and a brush breaker winch operations course.  Brush Breakers, guided by our Fire Officers and Station Trainers, traveled a heavily wooded course set up by Deputy Germaine to simulated flanks of the fire, driving through a wood road course utilizing all the water each carried.  A water supply training component with crews consistently refilling each Brush Breaker using Tankers 1, Tanker 2, and Engine 2.  Tankers 1 and 2 shuttled over 15,000 gallons of water for breakers to quickly fill up and get back to work.  A big thank you to all our Officers and Firelighters for attending and helping throughout the day! Overall, our goal of giving each Firefighter a real-life training experience and increasing their knowledge of working with our large bush breakers was accomplished!  Hats off to Deputy Germaine for organizing the drill, CFD Assistant Deputy Boyle, our Officer core, and Chiefs and Officers from surrounding communities for giving up their Sunday to help! Big props to our Station coverage crew and our awesome chefs back at Station 1, who served almost 200 hamburgers and hot dogs to the hungry troops at the conclusion of the drill. (Photo's by Future CFD Firefighter, Matt Heath)

Class #22 for our Recruit Firefighters was Live Fire Intro. Three different live fires (Dumpster Fire, Car Fire and Single Room Structure Fires) were demonstrated by our Instructors. Throughout the evening our new firefighters got a chance to extinguish each of the fires, while having instructors by their side. Instructors also performed a live fire classroom session in our larger burn room, where all firefighters got a chance to watch fire spread, see first-hand fire extinguishment and hydraulic ventilation techniques. Our recruits will conduct another live burn training on the last day of the course, where they will be expected to perform fire suppression’s without instructor assistance. A big thank you to all our veteran firefighters that assisted throughout the evening with yard help. In order to conduct the live fire scenarios we need multiple support firefighters to assist.  (Photo’s by Future CFD Firefighter, Matt Heath)