Your volunteer firefighters are constantly training and taking classes to better serve you. Since September, we have had a live burn drill with Stuarts Draft Fire Dept, we assisted the counties Haz-Mat team with a drill at Buris Refrigeration, we have several signed up to take the 100 plus hours of the Firefighter I class, and we hosted an Emergency Vehicle Operations Course. This is all in addition to our weekly and individual drill nights.  



Below are some pictures of a live burn drill taken during a Fire Attack class.  We had three members participate in this class and all three are now certified Firefighters.  Nice work Siemon Brown, Benji Smith and Hunter Rowzie.

Here the fire fighters are briefed on the scenario by one of the instructors.

Here the crew climbs the exterior steps to make entry on the second floor of the burn building.

Not only is the building heated to over 500 degrees, there is smoke injected to simulate a zero visiblility environment.

All members of the Wilson Volunteer Fire Company must be certified in Drivers EVOC.  EVOC or Emergency Vehicle Operation Course is a sixteen hour class that includes eight hours of classroom work, a written test, over the road test, and finally a closed obstacle course test.                                          

Engine 192 going through the course.

If Eldon can not drive through the course, it can not be done.

Backing up Tanker 195 is not as easy as one might think.