新兵为拖拉机翻转进行农场车辆。（由作者的照片。）
蒂姆·齐厄
本栏将涵盖农村消防部门可能遇到的所有类型的情况。在每篇文章中，我们将讨论农村供水运营，农村策略，互助，谷物救援，农场车辆提取，培训和招聘和保留等不同主题，从开始完成后招聘和招聘和保留（仅举几例）。
农村消防部门最重要的部分是有训练有素的成员。也就是说，大多数美国消防局不会反应我们城市和地铁成员的许多事件，因此我们没有获得生活经历/在职培训。但是，我们仍然需要留在我们的培训计划之上。
我倡导您组织的所有新成员培训到NFPA 1001，Standard for Fire Fighter Professional Qualifications，作为基线，第一年他们是您组织的成员。这将是为整个职业生涯建立的一个很大的基础。
Setting a yearly training calendar for the following year by November is key to having a great training program; this gives your members a proper schedule. We have found that the better informed they are, the better the response we received. Following is a plan that worked for us in my rural department in Minnesota.
- 涵盖您的所有国家要求，如职业安全和健康管理标准，血型病原体，正确的知识法律和限制空间救援。
- Hazmat awareness, operations or technical refreshers.
- Driver training for any member who drives apparatus.
- Self-contained breathing apparatus refresher every year for all members who have interior status.
- 年度refershers for pump operators.
- 看看您的响应区，并确定您的部门将响应的最有可能的事件是什么，并在这种事件中变得非常熟练。
(2) New recruits train on grain bin rescue.
You can now fill up the rest of your training schedule with everything else that needs to be covered such as extrication, live fire attack, confined space building construction, water rescue, and so on. However, be realistic with your training. I have encountered departments that have all kinds of rope equipment as well as a few members that are “rope crazy,” and this is all they want to do. Yet, they have responded to just one rope incident in the past 10 years. Focus on what your department responds to the most, and work with your mutual-aid departments to help cover the rest.
相关消防员培训
Polenzani on Mobile Home Fires: Rural Tactics in the Big City
Culshaw on Rural Emergency Response
Live Fire训练对于保持您的成员敏锐至关重要。是的，刻录收购的结构越来越难，但如果您的区域允许它，请遵循NFPA 1403，Standard on Live Fire Training Evolutions;值得你完成的时间。如果没有，请与您的州或当地学院合作，从您的位置获得移动活火支柱 - 这是关于肌肉记忆的全部。你越多，你会变得更好。
（3）永远不要忘记NFPA 1403的重要性，Standard on Live Fire Training Evolutions.
So, how many times a month do you have training? If your department is training one night a month for three hours, you are doing an injustice to the members and the people that you protect. Yes, we are volunteers (I have been one for 27-plus years), but can you truly train enough for something that can kill you? This is the question you need to ask yourself.
如果培训相关和参与，您的会员将理解，他们将成为您组织的一部分优先事项。例如，如果星期四晚上是你见面的月的一天晚上，那么每周四都在你的训练之夜。这不仅将使您的成员保持敏锐，但在呼叫回应时也会建立团队凝聚力。
Train hard and train often—never miss a chance to become a better firefighter. Your community and your family are counting on you.
点击这里to view the Truman (MN) Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department’s 2008 training schedule.
蒂姆Zehnder.began his fire service career in 1990 as a member of the Truman (MN) Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department, where he has held every position from firefighter to chief. He received his emergency medical technician and NFPA 1001 training that same year. Zehnder has a degree in fire science from Lake Superior College. He also worked for two years as an engine foreman for the United States Forest Service at the Payette National Forest in Idaho, was a Minnesota State fire instructor for 18 years, and was the fire rescue training program manager at a Minnesota state training college for seven years. He retired from the Truman Fire & Ambulance service in April 2013 after more than 21 years of service. Zehnder then accepted the position of director of fire science at the Mid Plains Community College. He is also a paid-on-call firefighter with the McCook City (NE) Fire Department and the president of the Nebraska Society of Fire Service Instructors as well as the city of McCook’s 2015 Firefighter of the Year. Zehnder co-authored the “Grain Bin Rescue” video for Fire Engineering Books and Videos and presents programs on firefighter survival and safety, rapid intervention team, rural tactics, grain bin rescue, and more. He is also an International Society of Fire Service Instructors 1403,Live Fire讲师，并传输提供该计划的国家/地区。
