Celebrating 25 years of training excellence, the Williams Fire & Hazard Control (WF&HC) 2018 Xtreme Industrial Fire & Hazard Training will return to Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX), where it originated in 1993. This June, Xtreme will offer firefighters an opportunity to challenge and enhance their industrial firefighting skills at the largest fire training field in the world: TEEX Brayton Fire Training Field.
The Xtreme curriculum offers a comprehensive hands-on learning experience for those involved in operational industrial fire response at on-shore petroleum, oil and gas facilities and is designed to benefit emergency response specialists and HSE managers. Attendees work directly with the accomplished WF&HC Emergency Response Team, benefiting from their frontline experience on over 200 major incidents.
The annual training is split between classroom study and practical field training exercises, covering various incident profiles and fire dynamics, foam and dry chemical application, response logistics and large-volume equipment applications. Instructors cover the latest methodologies and fire behavior using real-life case studies and insights into typical industrial operating profiles and their inherent exposures.
Classroom study is then adapted to the training field and tested. Live fire exercises involving pressure-fed, pooling and running fuel fires, as well as fuels in depth, are incorporated, exercising the group's use of coordinated foam applications, dry chemical usage, hand-line attacks, ground-monitor deployment, quick-attack monitor operations and large-volume equipment logistics. Xtreme will utilize project 47, a 45-foot storage tank fire prop, the largest available, built in cooperation between WF&HC and TEEX. Participants will witness WF&HC's new THUNDERSTORM 1x3 AR-AFFF C6 Foam Concentrate through demonstrations and comparisons.
For more information, visit www.williamsfire.com or call (409) 971-4100
