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Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - Page 9
Lucknow volunteer firefighters keeping their skills sharp
BY GARIT REID
Sentinel Staff
The volunteers
of the Lucknow
and District Fire
Department were
keeping their skills
fresh as they had a
training session
Aug. 4 just outside
Lucknow on Bruce
County Road 1
(former Cross
County building).
The. training ses-
sion consisted of
groups going into a
building filled with
smoke to search
and rescue bodies
and once outside
determine the nec-
essary emergency
medical procedure.
Many of the volun-
teer firefighters
performed CPR on
the practice
dummy • and
assessed if the
defibrillator was
needed.
Many of the vol-
unteer firefighters
alsohadahandin
proper operation f
the , pumper- . truck,
which is important
for keeping the
water flowing.
This also allowed
for others to prac-
tice their water
hose skills as they
shot water in a des-
ignated area.
Lucknow Fire
Chief Peter Steer
believes -it's impor-
tant for any volun-
teer fire depart-.
ment to keep their
skills up to date
especially in a rural
setting because a
lot of the time they
are the first to
respond to the.
many calls they
receive.
"If .there was a
work related injury
at an actual work -
ng fire, I have to
show that the -par-
ticular firefighter
has been trained,"
said ` Steer. "Any
rural fire depart-
ment is all volun-
teers, so we,work
mutuallywith
other emergency
roups and fire
dents, boy we.
have to be as ready
as they are.';
The firefighters
had a lot of dense
smoke to deal with
coming from a
smoke machine
during the search
and rescue, so they
had to rely on their
team, their equip-
ment and the abili-
ty to stay in con-
stant contact
through their
radios. It's a total
tearn effort for
Steer and his fire-
fighters as they
have to rely on
each other in an
emergency situa-
tion. Steer believes
any time they can
build experience
through training,
it's a good thing.
"We respond to
everything. We're
a tiered response
department, we do
first aid and we
respond to all med-
ical calls,. said
Steer. We're
required to, if
there's .a victim
trapped in a car it's
our job to gegen
out or just make
them *accessible.
So it's important
that our skills are
there through train-
ing."
Working with
other emergency
groups like the
OPP is important
to handle a scene
carefully as it
could be a crimirtM
scene, where the
OPP would need
the scene pre-
served to a certain
degree so they can
investigate.
`My job would
be to make sure
that if the scene
was suspicious that
we should contact
the OPP," Said
Steer. "It's impor-
tant because we
work with a lot of
different groups,
that we do out jobs
to the best of our
ability.", .ity"
For anyone who
drove by on
Tuesday night they
would have seen
quite the demon-
stration of fire-
fighters honing
their search and
rescue skills.
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Submitted photo
Steve McEwan operates the pumper truck to keep the Water flowing during tho
t ucknow and District Fire search and rescue training
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