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Visit to Fire Control On Saturday 31st March 2007 the YFA at Sheldon visited West Midlands Fire Control, which is located at Central Fire Station, Lancaster Way. Fire control looks after the whole of the west midlands and receives any 999 calls directed to the Fire service. The YFA students were allowed access to the control room and see machines being mobilised to incidents . Please click on the thumbnails below
Visit to Handsworth Firehouse On Saturday 5th May 2007 the YFA at Sheldon visited Handsworth firehouse, which is located at Handsworth Community Fire Station, Handsworth Birmingham. The YFA group were first shown some basics on wearing a Breathing apparatus set which firefighter would normally wear when entering a smoke filled building but for this exercise the group would not be needing them. They were also instructed on a how to do thorough search patterns and how to be able to follow a guideline and retrace their steps back out to fresh air.
The firehouse Also based at Handsworth is a dedicated unit which can reproduce the effects of a flashover in a small sized room. This is one of the most dangerous scenarios a firefighter could come across.
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