GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Green Bay Metro Fire took time Friday to hone in on their training skills at a special facility located at Georgia-Pacific’s Broadway Mill location.
The facility is normally used to train the paper company’s Fire Brigade.
Battalion Chief Steve Sellin says they’re focusing on the discipline of confined space rescue.
“What we’re doing is simulating that something’s gone wrong inside the space and we have to go in and get them.”
Sellin says air quality is a problem while maneuvering within such a small area.
“A lot of times you’ll find decreased oxygen levels. A lot of times that’s what causes the person inside to go down. That’s one of the biggest risks, so we always air monitor before we got in.”
He says lowering fire crew via rope down a 30 foot hole is dangerous as well.
“These are the holes that we would be entering. They simulate the exact spaces that these guys go into here,” says Sellin.
The Green Bay Metro Fire Department completes quarterly training on other specialties including collapse rescue, high angle rope rescue, and trench rescue throughout the year.
