EXPLORER & JUNIOR FIRE FIGHTER MUSTER & CHALLENGE INFORMATION PACKAGE

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1 Connecticut Rivers Council Exploring Division EXPLORER & JUNIOR FIRE FIGHTER MUSTER & CHALLENGE INFORMATION PACKAGE SUNDAY Check-in 9 a.m. Kick-off - 10 a.m. May 22, 2016 Connecticut Fire Academy PERIMITER ROAD, WINDSOR LOCKS, Ct.

2 Greetings, Welcome to our Explorer & Junior Fire Fighter Muster Challenge. This Muster and Challenge is open to any organized Explorer or Non-Explorer Junior Fire Fighter group. The Muster and Challenge offers an exciting opportunity for an Explorer or junior group to compete in real time drills that are used by Fire Fighter responders every day. In the past many organized groups have competed for trophies. The groups that have participated have found that in preparing for the Muster, their groups were provided with a focused training mission that has both improved and strengthened basic group dynamics. Every group that has previously participated in this event has had fun and closed the day knowing that they did their absolute best regardless of the outcome. This year s Muster and Challenge will be at the Connecticut Fire Academy. This location provides a great experience for all the participants and significantly reduces the logistical support requirements normally placed on participating departments. ALL APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT, WILL BE PROVIDED THROUGH THE CONNECTICUT FIRE ACADEMY. Please make every effort to join us on May 22nd, 2016, and let your group show everyone what they are made of. Muster and Challenge Rules Along with Station Information is Enclosed Should your group need assistance with personal protective equipment, please contact us. We ll check to see what equipment may be available to outfit your Explorer/Junior members to support your participation in this event. Additional information regarding this year s muster: All events will be conducted on concrete and asphalt surfaces. As each team is registered they will be directed to a Staging Area. Rehab will be provided for the participating muster teams throughout the day. Stadium bleachers will be available for eating and viewing, however, we encourage team supports to bring lawn chairs and freestanding canopies to provide additional comfort. If your group wishes to bring your own snacks and drinks, please note that there will be no open flame cooking permitted on site. Groups restricted to cooler packed meals, sandwiches, snacks, and drinks. This is a Rain or Shine event.

3 Participation Rules Registration Process: All Team that wish to participated in the Fire Fighter Muster and Challenge must register online at with a fee of an early bird fee of $25 per team and $10 per participate by Friday, April 29 th. Afterwards, the entry fee goes to $30 per team and $15 per participant. Lunch is provided and will consist of 2 hot dogs, chips, cookie and fountain drink.. No registration will be accepted after May 15, Any questions please call Mike Cooney at (860) Upon your arrival at check-in (9:00 a.m.) on the day of the Muster and Challenge you will need to submit the names of the team members participating in each of the challenge stations. You will also find this Stations Challenge Teams Registration form at the back of this package. The following information must be provided at the time of your online registration: Total number of Explorer Post or Junior/Cadet Company members on team Names of Explorer Post or Junior Company members participating in the Muster and Challenge Name of the lead Explorer Post or Junior Company member Names of Explorer Post or Junior Company team members competing at each skills station Adult or advisor names that are in attendance with your Explorer Post or Junior Company team EACH EXPLORER POST & JUNIOR FIRE FIGHTER COMPANY MUST HAVE AT LEAST 2 ADULT ADVISORS PRESENT ON THIS DAY Once this information is collected the team leader will receive an envelope identified by a number, which will contain a list of all the challenge stations. Next to each station, on the score sheet, will be a space where each station judge will enter the score for that junior fire company s performance. Upon completion of the challenge a judge will add all scores and enter the over-all score for each team. Following your check-in registration, each team will be directed to a prep area for a briefing on the upcoming challenge; questions are permitted during this phase. Protective clothing will be inspected during this phase. After your team briefing, each team will be directed to the staging area where they will stand-by until their challenge is called up.

4 Safety: The goal of the Fire Fighter Muster and Challenge is to have fun, show off our talents and knowledge and most of all demonstrate our ability to operate safely. Safety will also be stressed throughout this challenge. E.M.S. will be standing by for this event. Whenever a team is participating at a skills station, that team will be in full Protective clothing: (unless otherwise indicated) o Helmet w/chin strap o Eye protection (face shield or safety glasses) o Turnout coat o Turnout pants or ¾ length boots o Boots for turnout pants (firefighting boots or work boots with steel toes and shank) o Gloves (leather type gloves) Horseplay on the challenge course will not be tolerated. One warning will be issued per team. If horseplay continues, immediate disqualification will follow. Please make every effort to keep your team hydrated. Water will be made available to all teams throughout the day. The water provided is for team members only and can only be consumed at the challenge site. All youth team members participating in the Muster and Challenge are encouraged to practice each of the events that they are planning to participate in. Be proactive, be prepared. Each skills evolution will be based on IFSTA fire training practices. Scoring: Each team s performance at a skills station will be timed; the lower the time the better the score. Each skills station will have 2 judges assigned to it. The role of the judge is to assure that the team carries out the skills challenge correctly and safely. If a judge identifies a problem with a team s performance: Not conducting the skill safely Not conforming to the rules that apply to a skills station Not correctly carrying out the duties for skills station Not meeting the objective for the skills station A judge can issue an infraction to that team for that skills station.

5 Infractions will be issued as follows: Safety related: 2 additional minutes will be added to the skills station score Not conforming to rules: 1 minute will be added to the skills station score Not correctly carrying out duties: 45 seconds will be added to the skills station score Not meeting the objective: 30 seconds will be added to the skills station score Cheating: Disqualification from that skills station Arguing with judge: Disqualification from that skills station A team not completing a skills challenge: Will be scored as a withdrawal/disqualification from that skills station. All scores will be totaled at the end of the challenge. The team with the lowest over-all score will be identified as the winner. The winning Explorer Post of Junior Company will be awarded the top prize (best over all) for the entire challenge. All skills stations must be completed in order to qualify for the lowest over-all score. Any teams that have tie scores will be required to compete head to head at one of the skills stations that is determined by drawing from a helmet, which will contain pieces of paper that have the name of a skills station written on it. The station drawn will be the station used to break the tie. A judge will draw the station from the helmet. Each skills station will also have a winner identified at the end of the challenge. The team that produced the best score at a skills station, during their initial challenge, will receive a trophy for their performance. The award will be issued as a best station performance award. ALL SCORES ARE FINAL ONCE THE SCORE HAS BEEN ENDORSED BY THE SKILLS STATION JUDGES Awards to be issued: Best Overall Performance 1 First Place Station Performance 7 Second Place Station Performance 7

6 Type of Competition: The Muster and Challenge will be a relay type event. Each team will identify during their registration the members that will compete at each skills station. When your team is competing at a skills challenge, your team and your team only is participating at that challenge station. Each skills station will have members of your tam assigned to it, once a team completes a skill station; another team from your junior fire company must assemble and be ready for the next skills challenge station. The process of timing each skills station begins once the start alarm is sounded. The timing process will stop as each skills station objective is accomplished. Number of team members allowed participating per skills station: Bucket Brigade 6 Hose / Maze Crawl 3 Pump,Roll, And Squirt 3 Mid-night Alarm 4 Re-packing a Hose Bed 4 High rise standpipe 6 Stretcher Relay 6 These numbers do not represent the total number of persons needed per team. Realistically, a team can register with six (6) members and compete. The idea or hope is to rotate team members through certain skill stations where they appear to excel. Match the strengths of your team members with a skill station. QUESTIONS OR INQUIRIES: Any and all questions or inquiries can be directed to: Chairman Tom Post (860) address posttom@comcast.net

7 Only CT Fire Academy, or Muster vendor vehicles, will be used throughout the Muster as response or static display equipment. Parking of Department and personal vehicles will be limited to designated areas only. Please work with us on this. Parking space is limited. Anyone wishing to assist with the Muster and Challenge, or if you have any questions regarding this event, please contact Mike Cooney at the Connecticut Rivers Council office: Phone: (860) We look forward to seeing you on date to May 22, 2016 Be Safe.

8 CONNECTICUT RIVERS COUNCIL EXPLORING DIVISION EXPLORER & JUNIOR FIRE FIGHTER CHALLENGE 2016 PROCEDURE FOR GRIEVANCE If at any time during the challenge your team disagrees with the score received, or scoring process, the following grievance Actions may be taken. Only the Team Leader and one Team Advisor are allowed to bring the grievance to a judge s attention. The complaint must be brought to a station judge s attention before the team leaves that station. The Team Leader, Team Advisor, and Judge will discuss the grievance calmly. If at any time the discussion becomes argumentative, the judge has every right to issue an infraction in the form of a time penalty or disqualification from the station. If the Team Leader is not satisfied with the outcome of the discussion or decision rendered by the station judge, the team leader can ask to have their grievance heard by the lead judge. The lead judge s ruling will be final. That team may continue to the next station and continue with their challenges until the lead judge is available to hear the grievance. Grievances may be brought to a judge s attention in regards to the performance of another team as they proceed through the challenge course. Grievance Notes:

9 CHALLENGE STATION INFORMATION Bucket Brigade: This event will require six (6) team members A bucket brigade will be utilized to move water from a fill site to a dumpsite. The team members can use any strategy to get the filled buckets from the fill site to the dumpsite. Team members may perform as necessary to transfer the filled buckets to the dumpsite and back to the fill site. The timing process for this skills station will not be stopped until a steady stream of water is flowing from the drainage tube attached to the dumpsite container. This skills challenge will begin with the team staged at the starting area for this skills station. The team members will be alerted of the start by an alarm. Upon receiving the alarm the team shall move into position so as to begin the bucket brigade. A portable pond will be utilized as the fill site for the buckets. A total of twenty (20) buckets will be available to each team as they participate in this event. Each bucket is capable of holding approximately 3 ½ gallons of water once filled. The following rule applies, one (1) team member must be assigned to the fill site and one (1) team member must be assigned to the dumpsite. These team members are the only team members that are allowed to fill the buckets at the fill site and empty the buckets at the dumpsite. Only one bucket may be filled and dumped at any one time. The dumpsite will consist of a platform with a plastic 55-gallon drum that will be used as the dumpsite. The 55-gallon will have a drainage tube placed into the drum at the drums mid-point. This drainage tube will be used to identify when this stations objective has been met. PROTECTIVE CLOTHING REQUIRED FOR THIS SKILLS CHALLENGE WILL CONSIST OF TURNOUT PANTS AND HELMET. DUE TO THE LARGE QUANTITY OF WATER, CONDITIONS WILL BE SLIPPERY. SAFETY MUST BE ADHERED TO DURING THIS STATIONS OPERATION BUCKETS MUST BE CARRIED, NOT THROWN. BUCKETS THROWN WILL RESULT IN PENALITES. Judges will evaluate the performance of the team and determine and record the score for that team s challenge.

10 CHALLENGE STATION INFORMATION Hose / Maze Crawl: This event will require three (3) team members. The team will need to crawl through the CT Fire Academy Burn Building. The team members will have their vision blocked to simulate zero visibility conditions. The team must negotiate their way through the course following a charged hose line while negotiating some obstacles along the way. This skills challenge will begin with the three (3) team members staged at the starting area. The team will be alerted of the start by an alarm. Upon receiving the alarm the team must kneel and begin their hose crawl. During the entire challenge, the three (3) team members must stay in verbal contact. The charged hose line will run through the starting area and coupling will also be within the staffing area. Before the team leaves the starting area the team must decide, by feeling the coupling, on which direction to crawl. The objective is to move away from the fire or nozzle. The team must negotiate their way through the course utilizing their sense of feel and teamwork to guide them through this challenge. As the team moves through the course, they must identify their path by feel. Obstacles will be encountered during the hose crawl. The team members must be instructed as to the proper techniques that must be employed for this challenge. Once the team locates the end of the course, team members may remove their eyewear to gain their vision. A colored flag that will be attached to a gated wye at the finish must be removed and held up in order for the timing process to stop. Judges will evaluate the performance of the team and determine and record the score for that team s challenge. PROTECTIVE CLOTHING REQUIRED FOR THIS SKILLS CHALLENGE WILL CONSIST OF TURN OUT COAT, PANTS, HELMET, GLOVES AND BOOTS.

11 CHALLENGE STATION INFORMATION High rise standpipe operation: This event will require six (6) team members The team will have to connect water supply to Fire Department Connection to support a water stream from an upper story standpipe outlet, deploy a 1-3/4 inch hand line through a designated floor, and discharge water out of an assigned window. PROTECTIVE CLOTHING REQUIRED FOR THIS SKILLS CHALLENGE WILL CONSIST OF TURNOUT PANTS, BOOTS, TURNOUT COAT, HELMET AND GLOVES The Muster will supply the various connections, hose line and water supply. The event will be completed when water is discharged out of assigned window. Judges will evaluate the performance of the team and determine and record the score for that team s challenge.

12 CHALLENGE STATION INFORMATION Mid-Night Alarm: This event will require four (4) team members Four (4) cots/beds will be positioned within the station. The team members will be alerted by an alarm and must dress into the personal protective clothing that will be provided. Once properly dressed, the team must proceed together to the waiting apparatus. All four (4) team members will begin this stations challenge lying in the cot/beds provided. The team members will only have on station type wear. (Tee shirt, pants/shorts and socks) next to each cot/bed will be a pair of turnout pants and or boots. At the sound of the alarm, each team member will exit the cot/bed and immediately don their turnout pants and or boots. Once their turnout pants and or boots are on, the team will proceed to the donning station. At this donning station the team members will don their turnout coat, helmet and gloves. All team members must be completely outfitted before the team can proceed to the waiting apparatus and assume their positions in the jump seats. Once in the jump seats all team members must utilize the seat belt for their seat. The gloves may be removed to operate the seat belt mechanism but must be back on the members hand before the timing process is stopped. The entire coat must be properly secured as per the manufacturer s recommendations. THE PROTECTIVE CLOTHING BEING USED WILL BE A TURNOUT COAT, TURNOUT PANTS, BOOTS, HELMET AND GLOVES Judges will evaluate the performance of the team and determine and record the score for that team s challenge.

13 CHALLENGE STATION INFORMATION Re-packing a Hose Bed The event will require four (4) team members The team will re-pack hose onto the teaching prop. The hose needing to be re-packed will be large diameter hose (LDH). The hose must be re-packed correctly and ready for deployment. This challenge will begin with the team members staged at the starting area for this skills station. The team will be alerted of the start by an alarm. Upon receipt of the alarm the team members will move to the marked work area using an identified path. Once at the marked work area the team will need to re-pack the hose that is laid out on the ground. The hose requiring re-packing will be 200 of 4 or 5 large diameter hose with stortz type connections. The large diameter hose must be re-packed into the hose bed using a standard flat load. The hose that has been re-packed, when completed, must be NEAT, TIGHT, and READY FOR DEPLOYMENT. Once all the hose has been re-packed, the entire team must return to the starting area and retrieve a colored flag. The flag then must be held up in order for the timing process to end. PROTECTION CLOTHING REQUIRED FOR THIS SKILLS CHALLENGE WILL CONSIST OF TURNOUT PANTS, BOOTS, HELMET AND GLOVES. Judges will evaluate the performance of the team and determine and record the score for that teams challenge.

14 CHALLENGE STATION INFORMATION Roll, Pump & Squirt This event will require three (3) team members Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Team member #1 neatly rolls a 50-foot length of 1 ¾ inch hose. Upon completion of the hose roll, team member #1 then assists team member #2 in donning a stainless steel Indian Pump containing 1 gallon of water. After donning the Indian Pump, both team members will advance 40 feet to a designated line and will proceed to knock down three (3) targets with the Pumps water spray. Upon completion of Part 2, team members will remove the Indian Pump and assist team Member #3 with advancing charged hose line 75 feet to a marked location, then to open nozzle to knock down a designated target. (Nozzle must not be opened until all team members are in place. Failure to comply will result in a five (5) second penalty.) PROTECTIVE CLOTHING REQUIRED FOR THIS SKILLS CHALLENGE WILL CONSIST OF TURNOUT COAT, PANTS, HELMET, BOOTS AND GLOVES. Judges will evaluate the performance of the team and determine and record the score for that teams challenge.

15 CHALLENGE STATION INFORMATION Stretcher Relay: This event will require six (6) team members The team must move a mannequin secured within a stokes basket over an identified course. The team must not allow the stokes basket to be dropped at any time. The team will be required to lift and carry the stokes basket through the entire course. Other obstacles will be present within this course. All six (6) team members will begin this stations challenge with the lift already secured within a Stokes type basket. Upon the judges command, the team members will life the stokes basket and begin to move through the identified course. The course will have obstacles to simulate real life scenarios. Materials and equipment necessary to move the stokes basket through the course will be provided. Some of the obstacles may be walls to transverse, ladders being used as bridges and tunnels. Teamwork and communication are a must for this challenge. The entire team must be within the finish area in order for the timing process to be stopped. All six team members must maintain handhold contact with the basket while in transit between obstacles elements. Ground speed between obstacles must be accomplished with safety in mind. Fastest ground movement speed permitted will be a quickstep motion. Tripping, falling, or touching the ground while crossing the bridged ladder will result in penalties PROTECTIVE CLOTHING REQUIRED FOR THIS SKILLS CHALLENGE WILL CONSIST OF TURNOUT PANTS, BOOTS, HELMET AND GLOVES. Judges will evaluate the performance of the team and determine and record the score for that teams Challenge