- Training -

~~~ 
  
 

Past Training:

63 Completes Rural Water Movement Course

On Oct. 12^th, members from Station 63 along with other companies from the area completed this 16 hour course sponsored by the PA State Fire Academy and Bucks County Community College and held at the Factoryville Fire Co. with the exception being the tanker shuttle which was held in Fleetville due to the proximity to the Lackawanna State Park.  Crews spent the morning doing dump and fill tests on all of the tankers and then the afternoon performing the actual tanker shuttle itself.  Over a period of 2 hours crews managed to flow an average of just over 1,000 gallons of water per minute.  Crews shuttled from a fill site at the Lackawanna State Park to Station 63, which is exactly a two mile run.  Engine 9 (Factoryville) set up the fill site at the lake while Engine 63 set up the fill outside of the fire station and supplied water to Engine 4 (Clarks Summit).  Overall the course went very well and everyone involved learned something new.

Apparatus on-hand: E-63, T-63, E-9, T-9, S-9, E-4, T-2, T-60,
HBT-3, 52T-2

FOR PHOTOS CLICK HERE

Fleetville hosts rural water movement drill

On Monday night, June 23^rd the Fleetville Fire Co. held a rural water supply drill at the station.  Fleetville Engine 63 along with Dalton Engine 5 set up 2 portable ponds in the parking lot of the station, using Engine 5 to run the jet siphons while Engine 63 drafted out of the main portable pond to supply the ladder pipe of Clifford Ladder 18.  Factoryville Engine 9 set up a fill site at the Lackawanna State park with their Engine and portable pumps.  After everything was in place the tankers emptied into the portable ponds and began the tanker shuttle.  Crews managed to move and flow thousands of gallons of water during the exercise.  The Fleetville Fire Co. would like to thank all of the surrounding companies that participated.

Apparatus involved: Engine 63 and Tanker 63 (Fleetville), Engine 9 and Tanker 9 (Factoryville), Engine 5 and Tanker 5 (Dalton), Ladder 18 (Clifford), Tanker 24 (Greenfield), Tanker 60 (Meredith), and Hop Bottom Tanker 3

FOR PHOTOS CLICK HERE