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Training

Drills, evolutions and training ideas for crews and company officers, from basic skills to the lessons new fire research brings to the drill ground.

Ink-and-wash illustration of three firefighters in turnout gear and breathing apparatus advancing a charged hose line from the pump panel of a red engine toward the open front door of a single-story house, with light smoke drifting from the doorway and autumn trees behind.

News Brief

20.5 miles of hose: inside Charlotte Fire's fall in-service training

Every Charlotte Fire company is stretching line, searching and running an unscripted live fire twice, with the response order flipped for the second run.

Two firefighters in turnout gear and facepieces crawl a plywood hallway in a residential training prop, with daylight and light haze at an open door.

How-To

Turn FSRI's Three New Search Tactical Considerations into Company Drills This Month

UL's Fire Safety Research Institute's (FSRI) April 2026 Search & Rescue course refresh adds three tactical considerations on simultaneous suppression, remote-compartment ventilation, and hydraulic ventilation; here is a drill package that puts them on the training ground with FSRI's own drill sheets, time-to-task sheets, and discussion guides.

Computer rendering of rescue tools on a tarp in a parking lot at dusk: an orange air bag, a red rope bag, a thermal imaging camera, a strapped axe and pry bar, a wire rescue basket and two air cylinders, with light smoke behind a large commercial building.

Deep Dive

It takes a crew to get one firefighter out: what rapid intervention studies say about staffing and air

Phoenix's drills after the 2001 Southwest Supermarket fire found that rescuing one firefighter took a dozen more. A Canadian study later timed two-person and four-person teams, and both bear on how you staff a rapid intervention crew.