Day Seven…

October 15th, 2005

Today was Salvage and Ventilation day. In the morning, Engine 2 and 1 were practising Verticle Ventilation skills on a simulated roof. Just to know just how hard it would be, we had to make our first cuts with a pick-head axe:



Then the rest of the cuts were to be made with a chain saw:

Brody (Abbotsford) making his cuts, and Luke (Vancouver) looking on, backing him up:

Engine 1 having their turn on the simluated roof:

In the afternoon we learned how to properly fold salvage tarps…..

and how to effectively and easily toss the salvage tarps over “furniture”:

stay tooned….