SCBA - Building Skills and Confidence

Fire-Rescue-EMR Students going through SCBA Confidence Course

April 20, 2021

After weeks of training using self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA), students in the Fire/Rescue/EMR curriculum were able to put the skills they learned to the test by completing a rather unusual SCBA confidence course.

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The students put all their SCBA skills together as they navigated the course with their vision obscured following a hose line simulating what typically occurs in an actual fire.

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