Triangle Bar
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I finally finished all the farm work & haying for the season and the cows are still out on pasture till the end of October... so, I took off for a few days.
Sort of a working vacation to the Fire Academy.
We had a lot of fun riding around town and back & forth from the motel to the resturaunts in this rig. The horse on the right is 20 years old and is matched up to her 7 year old daughter.
Pretty cool station sign out front of where most of my classes were held.
The survival maze. This simulates escaping from one room to another by first knocking a whole in the dry wall & squeezing through between the wall studs.
The 21" culvert is also in the survival maze. It's not for the closterphobic. :lol:
Part way in.
Out the other side.
Here's another student. A little bigger guy, had to take his bottle off and push it ahead of him but not to far... remember that's your only air supply.
He made it and putting his pack back on. Look close at his face mask. That's wax paper on the inside. There's no visibility in a smoke filled house so why should you be able to see during training either?
Ladder Training.. do you think a 100 lb. firefighter could bring a 500 lb. victim down a ladder? It's easy as pie with this technique. They are basiclly just sitting on your knee and when you start to down climb you apply pressure, sandwiching their body between you and the ladder thus adding more friction.
My class photo. That's me, 1st on the left bottom row.
They have some top notch equipment. I'm fire engine red with envy.:lol:
The drive home. The west side of Wolf Creek Pass.
Looking west towards Pagosa Springs, the San Juan river in bottom of the valley.
Do you see the cliff in the top center of the previous photo? This is taken from below it on the highway.
Approaching the tunnel on the east side of Wolf Creek Pass.
Getting closer
Inside
I see light at the end of the tunnel and the end of this post. :wink:
I hope you enjoyed it. I sure did, made some new friends and learned alot of new skills. God's Speed my fellow Ranchers.
Sort of a working vacation to the Fire Academy.
We had a lot of fun riding around town and back & forth from the motel to the resturaunts in this rig. The horse on the right is 20 years old and is matched up to her 7 year old daughter.
Pretty cool station sign out front of where most of my classes were held.
The survival maze. This simulates escaping from one room to another by first knocking a whole in the dry wall & squeezing through between the wall studs.
The 21" culvert is also in the survival maze. It's not for the closterphobic. :lol:
Part way in.
Out the other side.
Here's another student. A little bigger guy, had to take his bottle off and push it ahead of him but not to far... remember that's your only air supply.
He made it and putting his pack back on. Look close at his face mask. That's wax paper on the inside. There's no visibility in a smoke filled house so why should you be able to see during training either?
Ladder Training.. do you think a 100 lb. firefighter could bring a 500 lb. victim down a ladder? It's easy as pie with this technique. They are basiclly just sitting on your knee and when you start to down climb you apply pressure, sandwiching their body between you and the ladder thus adding more friction.
My class photo. That's me, 1st on the left bottom row.
They have some top notch equipment. I'm fire engine red with envy.:lol:
The drive home. The west side of Wolf Creek Pass.
Looking west towards Pagosa Springs, the San Juan river in bottom of the valley.
Do you see the cliff in the top center of the previous photo? This is taken from below it on the highway.
Approaching the tunnel on the east side of Wolf Creek Pass.
Getting closer
Inside
I see light at the end of the tunnel and the end of this post. :wink:
I hope you enjoyed it. I sure did, made some new friends and learned alot of new skills. God's Speed my fellow Ranchers.
