When you live on a ship, calling the local fire brigade is a lot more difficult, so as part of our BST (Basic Safety Training) we learn fire fighting skills.
This covers:
- Safety and Principles of Survival
- Theory of Fire
- Fire prevention
- Fire detection
- Fixed fire extinguisher systems
- Portable fire extinguishing equipment
- Shipboard fire-fighting organisation
- Fire-fighting methods
I've been learning about the different classes of fire:
- Class A - Combustibles such as wood, paper, plastic, rubber and cloth
- Class B - Flammable and Combustible Liquids and Gases
- Class C - Fires involving energised electrical equipment
- Class D - Combustible Metals (magnesium etc)
And how you fight these fires using the different types of fire extinguishers (dry chemical, water, foam, and dry powder).
After our lectures they let us lose to fight some of our own fires! For our practical exercises we had to:
- Don the Firefighters Outfit and SCBA (Self contained breathing apparatus)
- Search & rescue in a smoke filled space
- Extinguish small Class C fire (PFE - Personal fire extinguisher)
- Extinguish small Class B liquid fire (PFE)
- Extinguish large Class B gas fire (Hose)
- Extinguish large Class A fire (Hose)
Me in my fire fighter get up!
Fighting a Class B fire with a Dry chemical extinguisher
Fighting a Class B fire using the spray setting of a hose to protect us from the fire
(In the last photo I am meant to be running back from the fire because I am the hose man so I am running back, after turning off the gas, to make sure we don't get and kinks in the hose as we retreat)
And finally a picture of my BST class and our instructors
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