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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45° F Bourbonnais

Current conditions as of 8 May 20:15 pm CDT

Light rain

Location:: Bourbonnais
Feels like:: 41°
Humidity:: 79
Wind:: E 8 mph

45°

Tonight

Rain, mainly after 9pm. The rain could be heavy at times. Low around 38. East northeast wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.

Sunday

Rain, mainly before 1pm. High near 47. Breezy, with a northeast wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Sunday Night

Patchy frost after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 34. North northwest wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

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