The flood season has arrived. In order to further improve the comprehensive ability of fire rescue personnel in water rescue and lay a solid foundation for flood fighting and water rescue, since June 20, the Xinjiang Bazhou Forest Fire Fighting Detachment has taken the opportunity of water + rope training to organize more than 70 Fire rescue personnel conduct swimming skills training at the Nantie Swimming Training Center in Korla City.
Swimming is a basic subject for water rescue. It is not only a necessary skill for fire rescue to participate in water rescue, but also an important way to sharpen the will of firefighters and cultivate excellent psychological quality. It is also an important guarantee for comprehensively improving water rescue capabilities and completing flood fighting and rescue tasks. . Learning the 400-meter breaststroke is an essential skill for firefighters, but for the majority of "landlubbers" and "semi-landlubbers" who are not accustomed to water in the team, swimming training is much more "painful" than physical training. .
"To be honest, growing up, the water in the basin and the water in the bath are what I have been exposed to the most. This is the first time I have been exposed to swimming training like this, so it is inevitable that I will be nervous and feel at a loss." said Zhang Xinjie, a new firefighter.
Standing next to the swimming pool, these firefighters, who are usually carefree and never frowned no matter how hard and tired they were during training, seemed a little overwhelmed.
In order to make up for the shortcomings in water rescue capabilities and accelerate the transformation to stronger capabilities, the detachment specially hired professional swimming coaches, scientifically divided groups, formulated training plans, and flexible training methods. Firefighters who can swim should be trained in standardized swimming movements and the swimming distance should be appropriately increased; firefighters who can't swim should be taught from the basics in a "gang-one" and "one-on-one" format, in groups and step by step. train.
In the process, the trainer first adopts the teaching method of familiar movements on the shore, and allows firefighters with poor swimming ability to conduct adaptive training such as basic breaststroke leg movements, hand movements, and basic ventilation on land, gradually eliminating the need for firefighters to their state of tension. Then, starting from the details of entering the water, floating, treading the water, holding the water, and standing, we organize underwater training, from easy to difficult, step by step, so that the "landlubbers" can gradually become familiar with water and master the movements.
"Through this systematic swimming skills training, I not only learned a skill, but also can join in more types of rescues." Niu Defu, a third-level firefighter, said excitedly after learning to swim.
In a few days, from the coach's auxiliary training to kicking exercises with the help of kickboards, to breaking away from auxiliary equipment and practicing breaststroke movements, from being overwhelmed to actively seeking knowledge to skilled movements, the firefighters' swimming skills have improved. raised dramatically.
"This swimming skills training lasts for 10 days. It aims to improve the ability of all fire rescue personnel in the detachment to rescue people and self-rescue on the water through this professional training, and strengthen and improve the combat effectiveness of the team. We will strike while the iron is hot and do a comprehensive job in fire rescue The personnel's swimming skill improvement training and comprehensive rescue training will lay a solid foundation for future water rescue operations," said Wu Shiming, chief of the combat training section of the detachment.
It is understood that in order to adapt to the expansion of the comprehensive emergency rescue system and functional tasks of "all disasters, major emergencies", the Xinjiang Bazhou Forest Fire Brigade has successfully completed comprehensive rescue tasks such as fire prevention and fire extinguishing, earthquake rescue, and water rescue, highlighting the "following the difficult path" With the characteristics of "strict and scientific training", focusing on actual rescue needs and comprehensive rescue shortcomings, we will solidly carry out practical drills, "Flame Blue" competitions, comprehensive rescue training and other training activities, focusing on improving the ability level of fire rescue personnel and ensuring that the team can be mobilized at any time. Get out, rush forward, and win.
