Video: How NOT to Conduct a Training Burn

Jason Thomas over at FirefighterSpot.com found this gem. The original post is here.

The video clip is not long, but shows us how not to conduct a training burn.

Oh how we can count the ways…

First of all, you should not need accelerant to conduct a training burn. Secondly, you should not need to ADD more accelerant to a fire whether it is a training burn or not.

All I can think is that the gear those guys are wearing is ruined. You can’t just crawl through fuel like that and think that it will just wash out.

Twice, the firefighter dumps fuel out of a bucket into the connex storage container.

We have a responsibility to be smarter than this!

One of the firefighters at the end is wearing what seems to be a Fayetteville Fire & Rescue shirt on. I am not sure where that is and I think there are several. My guess is that this video will not stay online long.

Enjoy…and then comment with your feelings!
The video got pulled and put back up…I have embedded it below.