REALISTIC TRAINING FOR LPG EMERGENCIES
Built in the summer of 1991, the Meadowood County Area Fire Department’s liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) training facility, part of the Meadowood County Area (Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire) Fire Department and Training Center, features seven stations, each teaching a different LPG firefighting evolution.
Meadowood’s principal LPG instructor, Ed Anderson, a Meadowood firefighter and certified fire instructor with 20 years of experience in the LPG industry, had been teaching Meadowood’s LPG classes using a very simple installation. His and the fire school management’s concerns about safety and providing students with the most realistic training possible led to researching and planning a new, more comprehensive facility. Several years of planning culminated in 1991 in a seven-station design in which each station provides trainees with a different LPG firefighting evolution. The training includes an eight-foot by eight-foot concrete pad, a manhole, city gas meters, twin 100pound cylinders, a 125-gallon tank, a 500-gallon tank, and a gas delivery truck (bobtail). These props are arranged in a straight line so that everything is easily visible from the safety officer’s elevated control station.
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