Military airfield firefighters have to certify their skills every year and one of the tasks they have to show proficiency in is handling a live fire burn.
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CHEYENNE –It hasn’t been done before May 24th’s live fire training in Casper, Wyoming, but plans are already in the works for the Camp Guernsey Fire Department and the Wyoming Air Guard’s Fire Department to train together again.
Military airfield firefighters have to certify their skills every year and one of the tasks they have to show proficiency in is handling a live fire burn.
The training is costly, and in these times of budget constraints someone had the good idea to travel to Casper and extinguish simulated crash fires together.
CGFD Chief Alan Baldy and five of his firefighters drove up from Guernsey while the Air Guard contingent flew over on a C-130, loaded with one of their brush trucks, and they all met at the Wyoming Airport Rescue Firefighting Training Facility, one of the few such places in the country where firefighters can hone their skills on live fuel burns.
Top: Wyoming Air National Guard loadmasters from the 187th Airlift Squadron load and secure a Wyoming Air Guard Fire Department brush truck on a C-130 H prior to delivering it and a team of firefighters to the Wyoming Airport Rescue Fire Fighting Training Facility in Casper, Wyoming, May 24. The firefighters tested the new truck, while completing annual certification with Camp Guernsey firefighters. (Wyoming Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jimmy McGuire)
Bottom: Camp Guernsey Fire Department and Wyoming Air Guard firefighters train together at the Wyoming Airport Rescue Fire Fighting Training Facility in Casper, Wyoming, May 24. The facility is one of few in the nation where firefighters can meet their annual certification requirements on a live diesel or jet fuel burn.
A Wyoming Air National Guard C-130 H flight crew practiced touch and go’s at the Casper airport near the Wyoming Airport Rescue Fire Fighting Training Facility while Camp Guernsey Fire Department and Wyoming Air Guard firefighters were training together May 24. The Air National Guard crew flew up from Cheyenne with one of their trucks tied down in the Herc.