This year’s Annual Deputy Drill focused on a large-scale Wildfire training at the Plymouth/Carver Airport area.  For many years, the airport has been kind enough to allow us to use a large rear wooded parcel to practice our breaker driving skills under realistic conditions.  An estimated 150 Officers and Firefighters from 9 Towns and State agencies, utilizing 14 Brush Breakers, 1 Forestry Truck, 2 Tankers, 2 Engines, numerous Command Vehicles, and Chief Officers, participated in the morning exercise.  The drill focused on brush breaker driver operator training techniques, wildfire crew operations, water resupply training, a chainsaw safety class, and a brush breaker winch operations course.  Brush Breakers, guided by our Fire Officers and Station Trainers, traveled a heavily wooded course set up by Deputy Germaine to simulated flanks of the fire, driving through a wood road course utilizing all the water each carried.  A water supply training component with crews consistently refilling each Brush Breaker using Tankers 1, Tanker 2, and Engine 2.  Tankers 1 and 2 shuttled over 15,000 gallons of water for breakers to quickly fill up and get back to work.  A big thank you to all our Officers and Firelighters for attending and helping throughout the day! Overall, our goal of giving each Firefighter a real-life training experience and increasing their knowledge of working with our large bush breakers was accomplished!  Hats off to Deputy Germaine for organizing the drill, CFD Assistant Deputy Boyle, our Officer core, and Chiefs and Officers from surrounding communities for giving up their Sunday to help! Big props to our Station coverage crew and our awesome chefs back at Station 1, who served almost 200 hamburgers and hot dogs to the hungry troops at the conclusion of the drill. (Photo's by Retired CFD Firefighter, Rick Leopardi)

Our Recruit Trainers go above and beyond in teaching our five newest Firefighters proper fire pump, fire hoses and stream operations. Firefighters got a chance to operate our front line Engines, a Brush Breaker and a Tanker, pumping and practicing hose techniques in realistic operational scenarios.  Learning how to draft water out of our portable pools is a must when you become a firefighter in Carver.  Firefighters also practiced hose packing and deploying techniques, selecting correct nozzles streams and flow pressures, hose rolls and other techniques our new firefighters will need when working fire incidents.  Our Training Facility with onsite pressurized hydrants helps take everything to the next level. Great Job TEAM (Photo’s by Future CFD Firefighter, Matt Heath)