Flashover Training

The Oakland Fire Training Institute offers a unique training experience that provides firefighters with the best live fire training program currently available to the fire service.  This hands on training can take place at our CREST Center or can be transported to your community.  For information about the Mobile Flashover Training Program please click here.

The Phase I Mobile Flashover Unit constructed by Swede Survival Systems™  is a laboratory, where fire behavior can be observed three feet below the fire floor.  Instructors will demonstrate basic fire behavior using Class A combustibles (particle board).  The fire is not influenced by artificial or individual. factors and is the most cost effective, realistic fire training available.  To watch a video of the Oakland Fire Training Institute staff training the Evanston Fire Department click here.

Key points of the system include incipient phase of the fire, fire growth, smoke production, high and low pressure zones, thermal feedback, rollover and flashover.  The students are shown, and can practice under working fire conditions, nozzle techniques that can be used in any interior setting.  There can be multiple evolutions before the fuel load is depleted.

COURSE GOALS COURSE CONTENT

  • Recognition of an imminent flashover

  • Flashover delay techniques

  • Flashover survival techniques

  • Save lives

  • Prevent injury

  • Safety procedures

  • Flashover variables

  • Flashover development

  • Flashover vs. Backdraft

  • Survival Techniques

If you have any additional questions or would like to schedule a training session with this state of the art piece of equipment for your fire fighters, please contact the Fire Training Office via e-mail or call 248-232-4580.

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This page was last updated on February 03, 2012