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The Brayton Fire Field prepares first responders for disaster situations, with simulated fires and other incident recovery scenarios. The 2015 spring training hosted about
500 students, many from other states or countries.
FIRE SCHOOL CONTINUED
Mike Wisby, associate division director for
the Emergency Services Training Institute,
which operates Brayton, said the school was
established in 1930 with 196 students from
76 Texas cities and towns. Today the school
sees 45,000 students per year from across the
globe. There are also satellite stations through
out the world, bumping the total number of
people trained by TEEX to 80,000 annually.
Wisby said TEEX, which includes the fire
school along with specialized first response,
has taught first responders who helped civil
ians in events like the Bastrop fires, Boston
Marathon bombing and the London subway
bombings.
While not the largest in the world by size,
Wisby said the university-based fire field is
the largest in amount of equipment. The rigs,
called props, focus on both municipal, includ
ing home and commercial businesses and in
dustrial fires.
Safety and teamwork are highly stressed.
Wisby said multiple instructors watch from
the sidehnes during a simulation, ready to step
in if something looks off about the simulation.
The students learn to communicate either
through hand signals or verbal cues.
“They’re having to learn how to work as a
team,” Wisby said. “They have to learn how
to move. We call it, ‘Teaching you how to
dance.’”
Scheffer said safety is highly stressed in his
classes.
“The number one priority in all incidents
— whether it’s hazmat, fire, wreck — is life
safety and it starts with your safety first and we
want to make sure you do your job as safely as
possible,” Scheffer said.
To run the fire school, Wisby said facili
tators pump more than a million gallons of
water per day. However, the water is drained
into storage tanks to be recycled and reused.
Most of the fuel used is E3, and the fire school
uses about a million gallons per year of the
flammable liquid fuel.
“That fuel is blended for us by ConocoPhil-
lips in Borger, Texas, up in the Panhandle,”
Wisby said. “They will tank truck that to us,
we use it in the tanks and that’s what we use
out here. You get a really good fire, just like
gasohne or diesel burning, but you don’t get
the smoke. It’s a low-smoke fuel developed
just for us.”
Scheffer said TEEX has both industrial or
municipal props.
“The industrial props are extremely real
istic,” Scheffer said. “Those are probably the
most realistic industrial burning props there
are in the world. As far as the municipal side of
it, when you’re dealing with more structural
fire fighting, the facilities again are out of this
world. They’re built with integrity to last a
long time and they allow us to do many dif
ferent scenarios.”
With these props, Wisby said the facility is
constantly updating and creating new simula
tions for training. At the moment, they are
installing a new prop — a four-car train de
railment.
“These rail cars have been sitting up in Bry
an on the siding,” Wisby said. “They’ve been
donated to us by Burlington Northern. We’ve
now started moving them out here. We’re go
ing to stack these up in a big train derailment
and then we’re going to set it on fire.”
Chief Robert Moore, director of the ESRI,
said the week is going well so far, even with
the weather deviations that are common dur
ing the spring. Moore said this may be ben
eficial for the students, as it prepares them for
scenarios in any weather.
“Firefighting doesn’t stop due to weather,”
Moore said. “It gives you some good train
ing because you do some things a bit different
depending on the weather.”
While incidents do not happen regularly,
Wisby said some people have lost an eyebrow
if they weren’t in the correct position. An
other concern is heat stress, and there are signs
posted throughout the facility reminding stu
dents to drink water and stay hydrated.
The training school has a broader focus
than simply fire fighting, Moore said. It is
an all-hazard facility, including training in
EM tech, hazardous materials, rescue opera
tions and management. Wisby said students
can also be trained in rescue operations, other
types of natural disaster incidents, as well as the
management side of handling an incident. The
practice of working an incident in simulation
creates a muscle memory for the real world.
“If you’re a responder, you want this to be
second nature,” Wisby said.
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