The key is to always stay calm slow and steady. The second you move fast and get caught or stuck you’re gonna freak out.

Dude I was freaking out about doing this in training but this video has calmed my nerves so much

I know it seems fun, but for any fire fighter, who may have had to this for real, kudos to you, for your bravery 😬🧡

My oldest brother is a retired Air Force firefighter. God Bless all of you brave men with brass balls, I sure as shit couldn't do it!

I just want through my department's confidence course. I can tell you I have ridden through the Rockies on a bicycle . Going through an SCBA confidence course is harder physically for me. I was getting tired just watching this.

Badass course fellas! Wish I could run it. Keep up the good work.

I just did this blindfolded and I’m 6’2 240 and just about died

I'm 15 and just did an obstacle course very similar to this at a fire camp this summer it was lit!

It's made with carriage bolts so it comes apart and can be rearranged in different configurations and or transported. I would say everything in the video can be setup in a single truck bay. Packed away obviously less space. Good to hear from you John.

Very cool training!

Awesome vid

I remember doing this during my fire one course at first I was terrified, but once I’ve actually gotten to do it it’s one of those things where it looks bad. but once you actually do it it’s not bad

I could barely make it through the living room while it's dark.!😂

the collapse sim is awesome!!! Diminishing clearance would get me breathing heavy!

Hahaha. Our instructors call it Chuck E. Cheese for adults

You just had to play the song we literally ALL heard in EMS training.

Good basic course whith simple materials can add slightly differnt challenges to keep adding to the skill set.

Good video look like fun training

Good job guy's !

With zero visibility this would be quite a challenge the first time. The obstacles seem fairly complex and more like a building collapse perhaps? I notice the use of the palms instead of the back of the hand which is unusual. In Sydney Australia we never do that due to electrical hazards. I believe BA training in zero visibility is the best way to prepare for our work. These environments I think can create anxiety and this training really helps.

You go Schrader!

Looks interesting, Might do volunteer firefighting one day

Oh wow, in NY at my class it’s in a pitch black building and they make obstacles and places you have to drop down into and climb up stairs on your knees backwards

That was dope

I just saw this course and it looks awesome. Any way we could get a copy of the plans. Thanks

Currently getting started at the local VFD. I am not going to lie, I kinda dread the obstacle course. It is going to be different that what we have here („here“ being Germany) but the principles are going to be similar. The guys who are already SCBA certified have told me that yes, it is tough but it is manageable. Just go slow, and remember that you are never alone. Here, it is always going to be a team of 2 going through the course. It is impossible to do alone because there are passages like a 10 ft long narrow tube that you have to crawl through. Unless one pushes or pulls the other, it’s not going to work. The course is also meant to teach you to trust your teammates. I was also given to understand that this course simulates every conceivable extreme situation, one after the other. And the rookies who do it for the first time will just tag along with an experienced team, while not wearing a SCBA. Later, they will carry a dummy tank and wear the mask. Only then will they get the „full immersion“ with an actual SCBA.

im in my 1 & 2 class and did a lot of this stuff and it wasnt to bad im 5'9 230

I did it decades ago.

Nice

How did you get home depot to donate? They basically gave my volly department the finger...

Want to up the training total blackout and strobes going. Loudspeaker playing sounds from an actual fire scene. Spin the fire fighter around before you send him in.

do you have the plans used to build it and if so, would you share them?

Any way to get the specs and plans on this maze to build one?

How else want to do this for fun

I would love to be able to do this join a fire service for a day and get to go to a fire and wear the turnout gear with the breathing apparatus sadley I can't

Is this something yall have to pack up or can you leave it there? Good work on putting that together!

If I did this I would be talking and saying things like “FANAGEL MORE INSERT MY NAME”

Ours was way harder with an ascending tube and IT SUCKED. I failed twice.

How was the trap door built

When I did mine I got so mad I climbed over the wires and the instructor yelled at me and I told him to f off... not my finest moment

the thing that bothers me most is the fact there is no sound x_x

Where is his tool?

Bruh the academy I'm going through right now our whole course was as tight or tighter than the seesaw prop.

That Jeff schrader?

Sound restored.

I feel like that trap door will scare me

so this is teaching firefighters to become human spiders?

Shouldn't he have also activated his PASS device after calling the MAYDAY?

The academy I’m currently at straight up spray paints old masks so you can’t see

We did this where I’m at, but it was pitch black and sucked.

I can never understand why such an emphasis is placed on sleek turnouts and SCBA for tight space training. Yet everyone still loves the satellite dish sized traditional helmets that are about twice the size and weight they need to be. Just saying. Lugging around a 1010 or N5A on your head plain sucks.

Wtf lol

RUBBERS

Good course terrible song