We originally met the Seminole County Fire Rescue team at the team competition portion of the Hazardous Materials Training Symposium in Daytona Beach, FL. There was a bit of a buildup to visit Fire Station #35 and their excellent training facility as it’s the 30th Anniversary of their Special Hazards & Operations Teams known as SHOT.
In the 30 years of developing their programs, continual fire truck apparatus evolutions, how their teams and stations are structured and with their ISO Class 1 rating - Seminole County Fire Departments has a program other departments can learn from.
In this episode we check out their primary hazmat fire truck - Squad 2 - capable of responding to all hazardous calls, structure fires, and tech rescue coming into Central Florida.
Squad 2 is a 2018 Pierce Fire Apparatus which is the third generation heavy rescue truck for Seminole County since starting their SHOT Program. This is an all-hazards truck capable of handling hazmat, confined space, heavy extrication, rope rescue, dive rescue, trench and structural collapse.
Next we visited the training facility with new firefighters for propane flare training with the The Red Dragon propane flare.
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Hazmat Fire Truck Overview - Video Chapters
00:00 Hazmat Roadshow TV Opener
00:20 Seminole County Fire Rescue & SHOT Introduction
01:26 Pierce Fire Truck Apparatus Design & Overview
01:39 Squad 2 - Heavy Fire Truck Walk Through
02:34 quick deployment, battery tool transition
03:20 16 boxes of smaller equipment and tools
03:57 structural collapse equipment & power tools
04:39 air bags, hoses, rescue 42 jacks
05:18 leak control kits and tools
05:59 Paratech gold strut overview & scenarios
07:06 Hydraulic tools, lines, hydrofusion lift & system
08:32 Hurst pedal cutter overview
08:49 Wench, junkyard bag attachments and scenarios
09:21 Emergency rescue saw compartment
09:56 Weldon pump, hoses, stingers, cribbing
10:54 Quick dry buckets and storage
11:41 RSP Cylinder Cascade Filling Station + 7 bottles
12:02 Torches - Plasma, petrogen, and oxyacetylene
12:37 Propane flare buzzer and LP flaring hoses
14:08 Up top coffins - longer deployments
14:35 level A & B suits, MT94 scenario, boots, custom air packs
15:59 Confined space equipment & PAPRs
16:10 Red Dragon propane flare and equipment
16:52 4” & 6” squeeze tool for polyethylene lines
17:42 Rope rescue and equipment
18:53 Sked stretcher, 2-piece Stokes basket, Larkin frame, Arizona vortex
21:08 Half-back extrication lift - harness. Horizontal & vertical rescue
21:29 Next up, propane flare training at Seminole County Fire Training
Contact our hazmat specialist Jack Hansen with any questions or to get specifics on the Squad 2 heavy fire engine equipment setup info@hazmatresource.com