ATS – Volunteer Fire Team Playing Field Exercise

On Friday, 23 February 2024, the Respiratory Protection Forces of FF-Spielfeld began their training course planned for the first half of 2024. This series of exercises focuses on intensively integrating operational tactics in order to tactically advance our Respiratory Protection sector To the next level. This serves our safety in the event of a dangerous operation and at the same time aims to increase our effectiveness in such a situation. In the first session on February 23. Our ancillary equipment has been rethought from the ground up. Together we looked at potentially locked firearms and practiced them on the spot. This tool was then put together in a so-called reconnaissance bag, which will now accompany our ATS troops on their missions. Basic tactical skills were also practiced. Additional practical emphasis was placed on rescuing comrades. For example, this includes the ability to quickly connect the mask of a comrade in distress to his ATS so that it can supply him with breathing air in an exceptional situation. The necessary maneuvers are not easy, especially in stressful situations, so they must be practiced as much as possible. Next, we practiced how to free respiratory protection wearers, who may be unconscious, from their devices, weighing up to 25kg, as quickly as possible so that we could administer first aid effectively. This type of training prepares us for worst-case scenarios that we hope will never happen in our fire department!
Report and coach: Michy Friis