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2017 Annual Report • Fire Department • St. Anthony Village, Minnesota <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />23 | Page <br /> <br />• Throughout the training process there are several milestones we have. Once training is <br />started firefighters start to learn with the equipment. Once they complete our equipment <br />location test they are given a pager so they can respond to calls to help out as now they <br />can be utilized. Towards the end of training they are given a new <br />helmet with their badge number on it and can finally get rid of the <br />yellow rookie helmet which really makes you stand out in a crowd. <br />Firefighter I and II training has a lot of things that can be extremely <br />fun to learn and also has a lot of areas that can be really boring. But <br />part of being a firefighter doesn’t always get to be fun and games. <br />Each thing that we teach/cover has a reason behind it and most of <br />the training can be used outside of the fire department with family, <br />friends and anyone else that may need our help. The training starts <br />out with a basic history of the fire service in general. We then move <br />up to qualifications and safety along with Personal Protective <br />Equipment (PPE) and communications. Then they start to get into <br />the <br />science behind some of the fire <br />service like fire behavior. One must <br />know the science of fire in order to <br />know how to properly fight it. Fire <br />is made up of four essential <br />components, fuel, oxygen, heat and <br />a chemical reaction. If you remove <br />any one of the four things fire can no <br />longer sustain itself and can no longer burn therefore you put the fire out. <br />Another part I stated a little earlier is all of the tools and equipment associated with the fire <br />department. This can include the correct use of a tool to the correct name. It certainly seems like <br />a lot of information but it doesn’t end there. Moving on to building construction, again why <br />would a firefighter want to know about building construction? As a firefighter if you do not <br />have a basic knowledge of how buildings are put together then you will not be able to judge <br />and determine how a fire may burn or move through that building.