When firefighters are introduced to mayday operations during training, standard drills are performed on apparatus bay floors as simplified rescue scenarios with limited options for failure. Failure is ...

In the last few years, mayday training has become a hot topic around the firehouse as well as the latest training trend to sweep through the fire service, and our fire department has been no exception ...

“Mayday, mayday, mayday!” Hearing this word over the radio, repeated three times by a familiar voice with a spine-tingling tone, is not a routine situation for firefighters, nor one with which they ...

Last month I talked about the rapid-intervention team (RIT) and wanted to add to that conversation with a few thoughts about calling a mayday on the fireground. Whether you’re the incident commander ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - It happens in May for an obvious reason, and the Longview Fire Department’s Mayday training is taken very seriously. KLTV takes us inside a smoke filled building to take a ...

This is the first mayday training done at LSFD's new training tower in Loveland. This is the first mayday training done at LSFD's new training tower in Loveland. This is the first mayday training done ...

DANVILLE, Va. (WSET)- We all know firefighters train to rush into burning buildings to save us. But what happens if one of their own gets trapped inside, saving someone else? The Danville Fire ...

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Over the past month, Orleans firefighters have participated in Mayday and Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) Confidence Course training. The three-hour program was led by Orleans Fire Training ...

BRIDGEPORT — “Mayday, mayday, mayday,” firefighter Justin Fontan said over his fire dispatch radio. “Trapped on the second floor, running out of air.” On his hands and knees, in full gear and wearing ...

RUSSELLVILLE, AL (WAFF) - While one Valley service agency is cutting its ranks, another is adding members, and they're training by using some very realistic scenarios. Thursday was Russellville Fire ...