If you are looking for an easy to setup BA drill here is one I ran last night.
Stay with me as it takes a bit of explaining;
Appliance is positioned at the rear of our station, crews begin about 5m away
1) Whistle blows, stopwatch starts and two operators head for the vehicle and don sets and start up, (penalties for not conducting a positive pressure test, negative pressure test, PPE not done up correctly etc etc)
2) High pressure line ran out approximately 40 metres, branch is placed inside a cone (if the branch drops on the ground it is a penalty)
Crews run to next stage approximately 10 metres away
3) Four full foam drums are carried approximately 20 metres and placed within coned off area
4) Pickup dead fred from nearby and correctly carry him approximately 60m around a series of cones
Fred is put down at next to a ladder
5) Pitch ladder against the station
6) Bowl out 2 lengths of 38mm hose, connect hose to hydrandt - connect branch and advance hose and brach up ladder, deliver small amount of water from top of ladder - second person foots ladder (penalties for any breaches of FGP's, not doing a leglock etc)
7) Crew then run back to the hydrant (approximately 20m) bowl out a 64mm hose and fill a plastic drum
Turn off 64mm hose, then head back to the ladder where the person that didn't go aloft the first time goes up, he advances the hose and delivers water from the top of the ladder(same penalties apply)
9) Strike the ladder and head back to the casualty, carry casualty back around the obstacles to where you originally picked him up from
10) Put down casualty at original spot, then pickup the four foam drums and take them back to their original spot
11) This brings you back to near where the high pressure line brach was - pickup the brach and take it back to the appliance
12) Clock stops when both crew touch the appliance
It all sounds a bit confusing I know, you really need to see it drawn out on the map to understand but it does actually work pretty well.
We managed to put 10 people through it last night and had times ranging from 12mins down to about 8 1/2. At the conclusion of each run we would go through the penalties and put them all up on the white board - originally we were going to add 10 seconds per penalty but we ended up just using it as an example for the next crews of what not to do.
Everyone involved said they enjoyed it, even though most of them were buggered after having run hard for about 10mins with BA on. It is definately something we will look at doing again.
For about 10 mins of setup work it is an easy way of getting people practicing actual fire fighting skills whilst working hard and still having fun.
If you want any more info let me know - happy to help.
