“Plunged into the dark without any visibility, we quickly realize that our movements are impaired. We then learn to pay more attention, to find calm in order to progress. The course includes so many complexities that once completed, you feel ready to tackle all the obstacles encountered in intervention much more easily. » For this firefighter who tested the new training module at the L'Hermitage center, in Ille-et-Vilaine, the test is therefore conclusive.
Difficult conditions
The Department has allocated €1.80 million to finance this new equipment, which should make it possible to better prepare firefighters for difficult, but real, intervention conditions. It is located on the site of the Ille-et-Vilaine departmental firefighter training center.
It is made up of a mesh structure, made up of cages assembled with modular paths and different distances and levels of difficulty. “The maximum distance of the course to be completed is 120 meters long, and 70% of the course is done by crawling,” notes Sdis 35.
A rampant
Several installations have been opened around this simulator which allows firefighters in training to carry out routes while operating in a cramped environment with very low visibility. The building also includes a briefing room, spaces dedicated to the packaging and delivery of fire equipment to the exercises, an air filtration room and an air bottle inflation room, fire changing rooms dedicated to trainees and trainers, a course adapted to the practice of Self-Rescue and Rescuer Rescue techniques…
