TEEX Industrial Fire School
48th annual event draws 533 industrial fire students
First-hand experience of the fury that is a soon-to-be challenged industrial fire is sought by every visitor during the 48th annual Industrial Fire School conducted the week of July 18, 2010, at the Brayton Fire Training Field in College Station, TX. However, not every person registered was a firefighter. Among the 533 registrants was Amy Wallet of Scott Health & Safety, a leading manufacturer of self-contained breathing apparatus. Knowing exactly what firefighters experience in the line of duty helps Scott design better air packs, she said. "This puts us in touch with what firefighters have to go through," Wallet said. "Until you actually have to wear this gear in 100 degree F weather fighting a 1,400 degree F fire you don't realize what it is like." Hosted by the Texas Engineering Extension Service, the annual school offers a broad range of classes designed to address specific industry needs using the most advanced methodologies available in the fire training world. Brayton, located near the Texas A&M University campus, includes 22 live-fire training props simulating all manners of industrial emergency havoc. Many of the firefighters attending the school were not only first-time visitors to Brayton, but first-time visitors to the U.S. John Noteman is a production technician for Petrojam, Jamaica's state-owned oil company. "We don't have fire props like this back in Jamaica," Noteman said. "All I have to say is that anybody who has anything to do with exterior fire needs to have this experience." To read the entire article, click HERE
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- Thursday the 29th
- Bolton, UK: Fire broke out in an industrial oven at a bread factory. More Information
- Carbondale, PA: A dumpster fire outside a chemical plant is being investigated as arson. More Information
- Carlisle, UK: Production at a cheese plant was halted by an explosion involving an immersion heater in the plant's boiler room. More Information
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