FORT WAYNE, Ind. - The 122nd Fighter Wing recently completed an Annual Training period at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, Alpena, Michigan, July 21 through July 31, 2015. During the two week training period, the unit’s Fire and Emergency Services performed many training tasks to include a simulated burn of an aircraft.
The 24 member 122nd FW Fire and Emergency team trained on fully engulfed aircraft fuel fires that included aircraft engines, wheels, interior and exterior fires. Tech. Sgt. Matthew Brown, 122nd Fighter Wing Station Captain, performed Safety and Instruction, while also, helping to create the scenarios for the learning firefighters.
“As an annual requirement, fighting live fires is imperative to continuity in order to learn how to better work with one-another and to learn techniques on how to attack various kinds of fire,” said Brown. “Interior techniques used in large aircraft fires are like structural fires, we finished the training strong, aiding in our team building and overall the Alpena training was good for our team.”
Alpena CRTC is equipped with a C-130 Static Aircraft live-fire training simulator that allows for fully engulfed training on exterior and interior aircraft, engines, wheels, running fuel and egress training fires. The CRTC also boasts multiple automobiles and a four story tower with smoke and flash-over simulator, for structural training.