Chattanooga Firefighters Attend Structural Collapse Training In TX

Three members of the Chattanooga Fire Department had the opportunity to travel to Texas A&M University in College Station,TX and attend the FEMA 80 hour Structural Collapse Specialist class at their TEEX (Texas Engineering Extension Service) “Disaster City” facility. This class is a certified course that was led by task force members who have a vast amount of knowledge and experience from hurricane responses to the rescue efforts on 9/11/2001. Our members sole purpose in going to this training was to return to Chattanooga and assist with training our Urban Search and Rescue, TN Task Force 4 team with structural collapse training. This training will help teach our members how to better assist our citizens in the unfortunate event that a structure may be compromised due to any kind of force from tornados to motor vehicle accidents into buildings. Firefighter Parker, Lt. Vice, and Captain Freeman all said it was a very informative and effective training and they look forward to helping train our teams more in order to better serve the citizens of Chattanooga and the surrounding areas.

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