Deputy Chief Drew Smith from Prospect Heights tells us that …
MABAS Division 3 is holding their annual fall company drills at NIPSTA. Sessions ran 0900-1200 and 1330-1630 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this past week September 21, 22 and 23 and will continue on the same schedule for the next two weeks September 28, 29, 30, October 5, 6 and 7. Each session has 10 companies and three chiefs (plus about 10 instructors) participating in three evolutions:
1) Live fire multi-company operation;
2) Pitched roof ventilation skills on prop;
3) Classroom session on “taking care of our own.”
In these three weeks, 34 engine companies and 16 truck companies (times three shifts) with more than 500 firefighters will participate. Division 3 has been performing this type of division-wide company training each spring and fall for 20 years.
