Members Complete FAST Class

Recently two of South Salem's probationary members completed the Firefighter Assist and Search Team (FAST) class. Probie's Trevor Caviola and Tom Mertens spent time at the Westchester Fire Training Center learning the operations of a FASTeam . This included identifying the tools and staffing requirements for a FAST operation, developing a rescue plan for a missing, lost, or trapped firefighter; demonstrating rope search techniques, and demonstrating removing a firefighter/victim up a stairwell, up or down through a hole in a floor/roof, moving a downed firefighter down a ladder.
Probie's Caviola and Mertens have spend much of their time lately at the Fire Training Center, after having recently completed Firefighter 1 and Firefighter Survival.