PL VULCAN FIRE TRAINING CONCEPTS

PL VULCAN FIRE TRAINING CONCEPTS TESTIMONIALS

ADAMS AREA, PA PUTS TECHNIQUES LEARNED AT RECENT TOWER LADDER OPS CLASS TO WORK
Collapse rescue in the first due. Used your basket bridle to lower the victims, as well as, the low angle ladder slide.

Al Minjock, R.N., MSN, PhD
Chief of Department
Adams Area Fire District

COMMENTS FROM OUR PAST CLASSES
"LT PETE LUND WOULD BE VERY PROUD OF THESE GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH MARK AND HIS KNOWLEDGE FROM HIS YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AS A FIREFIGHTER HAS HELPED ME TO TEACH MY GUYS NEW AND EASY WAYS OF DOING THINGS!!!!!!!!!! THEY WORK THERE TRAINING AROUND YOUR DEPARTMENTS WAYS NOT JUST WHAT FDNY DOES BUT WHAT YOUR DEPARTMENT IS CAPABLE OF DOING. THEY ARE PATIENT AND UNDERSTANDING. YOU GOT A QUESTION JUST ASK!!!!!! THESE ARE GUYS YOU ARE PROUD TO KNOW, AND CALL FRIENDS!!!!!!!! THANKS SO MUCH MARK FOR ALL THE HELP!!!!!!!!!"

- Captain Chris Willis, Butler and Community Volunteer Fire Department

ELEVATOR OPS CLASS
It was a pleasure to have you and Randy at the Firehouse for the training. Elevators are an important part of any rescue plan. You gentlemen pretty much covered everything from top to bottom, (no pun intended). Everyone who attended learned a great deal and walked away with a greater appreciation of the difficulties and dangers associated with elevator rescue. The comments were very positive. As a side note, the TIFF 8800 meters are being requested and we had a Gas call where the source of the leak was finally identified by the Gas Company only after our own detection equipment identified the combustible gas but not the source. This should help to convince the Board. Thanks again. I would strongly recommend the training to every Department that is interested in Elevators and I will bring it up at the next 7th Battalion Chiefs Meeting.

Sincerely,
Christopher L. Gioia
1st Assistant Chief

NORTH CAROLINA VES CLASS STUDENT
One of our students at the Grennville/ North Lenoir VES Class in North Carolina,

Just wanted to thank you again for coming down to teach ladder ops and VES. I've sat through a lot of classes that didn't teach me much more than I would have gotten from reading my essentials book, so it was refreshing to have some instructors who were able to say "When this happened - this is what I did," instead of "If this happened - this is what I would do." We go through a lot of BS training and run few calls, so classes like yours remind me why I enjoy this job so much. I'm back to work today and already the guys are tired of me showing them the new stuff I learned. Keep up the good work, I look forward to the next time ya'll come down to NC.

HAGERMAN FIRE DEPARTMENT
A woman walked into the firehouse for a ring she couldn't get off her finger. Days before this incident, members received training from PL Vulcan Fire Training Concepts and were trained on Man Vs. Machine training. The training covered the Medical and Rescue Aspects of People trapped in various types of machinery. Students participated in the removal of mannequins from such items as meat grinders, snow blowers and lawn mowers. An impalement and ring removal section was also provided and as you can see from this video, the training paid off for one lucky woman.

click to enlarge

DEPARTMENTS TRAINED

Windsor Locks Fire Department

Pittsburgh FOOLS

Pleasant Hills Volunteer Fire Company

Homestead Volunteer Fire Company

Richmond Virginia

Rutland Vermont

Denver Colorado "Fire Nuggets"

North Strabane Volunteer Fire Company

Monroeville Pa Fire Department

Adams Area Pa Fire Department

FDIC Indianapolis

KMA Fire Training, Rutland Vt

Clearwater Beach Fla Fire Department

City of Long Beach (NY) Fire Department (monthly)

Plum Island Animal Disease Center Fire Rescue (monthly)

Rocky Point NY Fire Department

Hagerman NY Fire Department

Nassau County Fire Chiefs Association

New England FOOLS

Newport City Vt Fire Department

Burlington Vt. Fire Department

Central New Jersey FOOLS

City of Marlborough Ma Fire Department

Dracut, Ma Fire Department

Charter Oak FOOLS Ct

2009 National FOOLS Convention

Plainville Ma, Fire Department

North Attleboro Ma, Fire Department

Swansea, Mass

Orrville, Ohio

Wadsworth City, Ohio

Hackettstown, NJ

Murfreesboro, TN

Elmont, NY

Hutcherson Memorial Fire School

Moncton, Canada