A&M Fire Training Weekend

Is it really Wednesday?




This past weekend we spent up at A&M Fire School. It was a special training event for Harris County Firefighters Association. John took a class and I taught a class. It's so wierd because I have gone up to weekend and week long training so many times and have even scored an instructors position and yet this is John's first time going. He's lived in Texas his entire life and has been in the fire service for what seems to be forever and he has never gone. He has gone to the fire field for his airplane firefighting classes but never for the infamous weekend/week long.

This training school is supposed to be the be-all, end-all of fire training in the United States. It's actually pretty amazing. They have a mock airplane, a ship, Am-Trak trains that are piled up as if they were in an accident, and disaster city which is a mock up of a city that has gone through a disaster. Imagine that. Anyway, they also have tons of differant types of structures and industrial units that they use to practice firefighting. Firefighters really do get state of the art training there. I think it's pretty cool that I get to be one of their instructors.