Alerter

Get out of jail card...

I've hunted high and low for this video and I've come up trumps!

Any retained firefighters needing to find an excuse for not doing the DIY, not cutting the grass, not washing up or, indeed, any other job your better half has lined up for you - play this video and make sure the volume is turned up. Then find your shoes and head for the door.

Note: Make sure your alerter is actually near to the computer before attempting this bit of skullduggery. Most other half's are adept at spotting the wool being pulled over their eyes!

And for anyone who has not experienced the sound of an alerter at full tilt - just sit back, turn the sound up and imagine this going off at 3am...

Enjoy...

Ladders that stick like glue...

Interesting recruits video from the US - all done in the name of fun! Umpteen casualties in the tower on various levels so requires quite a few ladders.

But just take a look at the 9m ladder. Three man pitch and, unlike ourselves, there's not three rounds above the sill. Now take a look at the foot of the ladder - no one is footing the ladder for more than a few seconds at a time. And right near the end of the clip you can see there are now two people on this unfooted ladder.

That's a training need if ever I saw one!

What were they thinking?

Don't try this at home!

I think this was filmed in Finland...

I suppose they carried out a full Risk Assessment, decided the whole thing was potentially lethal and then thought, "What the hell, let's just do it" - but in Finnish, of course...

It's more than fighting fires...

How not to foot a ladder...

I think this identifies some Training Needs.

And before anyone panics - this was filmed in the US not on the bad streets of sleepy Suffolk.

How not to drive a fire engine!

A lesson in driving from our friends across the Pond!

Enough said!