Self-contained breathing apparatus
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Sep 18, 2026
Dave JonesHOST
Okay.
Dave JonesHOST
So consumption drill in fire college is where they, you put on your, your SCBA.
Dave JonesHOST
Your breathing apparatus? Yes.
Dave JonesHOST
Self-contained breathing apparatus.
Janelle FosquetteGUEST
with the data is how do you decide if you're running training? And this plays in also to coming up with a plan, right? Like ideally you're doing it in advance.
Janelle FosquetteGUEST
So how are you deciding, all right, today's going to be another SCBA day versus, all right, we really need to start talking about lithium ion battery fires because we've never done that before.
Lisa BurtonGUEST
That's a challenge, isn't it? I enjoyed reading that, too, because I thought, yeah, you don't want to get caught doing the same.
Lisa BurtonGUEST
We have 12 months, so we have 12 trainings, and that's what we do every year.
Dan TaylorHOST
Yeah.
Charlie WhiteGUEST
And we talk, talk like dark Vader just because of our SCBA, uh,
Dirk HoustonHOST
mask on
Charlie WhiteGUEST
so yeah always the uh month of october for every fire department in the state of nebraska okay
BenGUEST
Uh, we used to have benzene pit fires down in, in our local jurisdiction, happened about once a month.
BenGUEST
And they just weren't wearing their SCBA, things were fine, and it ended up becoming a, a diagnosable and, and ultimately fatal thing.
BenGUEST
So, a- affecting us individ- you know, individually.
BenGUEST
We all probably know somebody in, in our departments who have been diagnosed with cancer.
Tyler HokeGUEST
That, I mean-
BenGUEST
Yeah.
BenGUEST
Wear your SCBA.
Tyler HokeGUEST
Yeah.
Bob CociancichHOST
Well, and, and, you know, think about this for a second.
Bob CociancichHOST
We'll pull up to a two-story house with smoke pushing out every opening, grab a hose line, put on an SCBA, and walk through the front door.
Bob CociancichHOST
We know the atmosphere is I- IDLH.
Bob CociancichHOST
I hate when people say that.
Derek SchaumanHOST
Okay
Bob CociancichHOST
... another 10,050 occurred during training.
Bob CociancichHOST
So even after decades of improving PPE, SCBA, thermal imaging, fire behavior training, RIT training, mayday procedures, we see that all the time, um, we're still getting firefighters hurt.
Derek SchaumanHOST
Well, yeah, and I mean, just, just based off what you're saying there, I mean, you know, we have to remember fire's dangerous.
MeganHOST
Uh, I don't know if there's any firefighters, uh, in the audience, but, um, it was mostly practical skills, the in, in-person part.
MeganHOST
So I had to wear the full, uh, gear with the SCBA, so, like, the air tank on the back.
MeganHOST
Uh, we did a burn tower.
MeganHOST
So we went to this big building that had all these, uh, like, fake fires everywhere.
Brent BrooksGUEST
This is similar to our manual distress signal units or our ADSU or automatic distress signal units.
Brent BrooksGUEST
They have them on their SCBA.
Brent BrooksGUEST
It's their firefighter down alarm.
Brent BrooksGUEST
It's designed to make a very loud alarm if a firefighter stops moving for a set period of time so crews can locate them in smoke or zero visibility.
Brent BrooksGUEST
Command tells him to activate it.
Brent BrooksGUEST
He responds that it's hot and he can't find his way out.
Brent BrooksGUEST
Seconds later, the command hear his pass alarm, but his SCBA later showed that Fant hadn't actually manually activated his pass.
Brent BrooksGUEST
It had entered into full alarm automatically due to his lack of movement.
Matt RussellGUEST
And so we started doing the research, and we got the numbers for all the injuries over the last five years.
Matt RussellGUEST
And what we found is that 81% of injuries come from PT or SCBA week.
Matt RussellGUEST
And to me, what that says is the folks that are coming here are not physically prepared to take on those challenges.
Matt RussellGUEST
And that's a failure.
MattHOST
We cleaned our gear.
MattHOST
You open up that cab door and the SCBAs reek.
MattHOST
They forget about that.
MattHOST
And that touches the seat.
Bubba the Love Sponge ClemHOST
Yeah.
speaker_4AUDIENCE
Every year they do a run upstairs in full gear, you know, with their, with their SCBA air packs on, with their, with their bunker gear on.
Macho ManPANELIST
Practicing.
speaker_4AUDIENCE
And they run up, you know.
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