# Water rescue training

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Posted by 74KA on March 02, 2019 at 01:47:31

One of my good friend's dad is a firefighter. we've been friends our whole lives, and a lot of times when the fire department would do training, my friend, me and some of his other friends would get to go down to the fire station and be "dummys" for the firefighters to use for training. Like they'd setup obstacle courses and have to carry in through them or stuff, like they're practicing rescuing people from a burning building. Well the other day my friend texts me and asked if I'd be free to help with a fire department training. I said sure, and he said it would be at the high school pool because it was water rescue trainning, and did I mind going swimming? THat right there was pretty cool since we're in the middle of a awful winter here, its been snowy, freezing cold, icy and windy for months now, so I haven't been swimming obviously. High school pool was indoors so this would at least be an opportunity to swim, at this point I was still assuming we'd go in swimsuits, and maybe I could wear a tshirt. But then his next text is "BTW they want this to be realistic so u got to wear ur clothes in the pool. cool?" I read it over 3 or 4 times to make sure I read it right - and now I'm getting surper excited. I just text back sure that's cool with me.

Next day I bump into him at school and he asked if I was still cool about wearing clothes in the pool. He said they wanted to practice realistic rescues and how it can be more difficult if they're rescuing people weightet down with heavy clothes. I said that I still was cool with that and asked him if there was anything in particular I should wear? He said there would be 4 of us being the "victims" and they wanted each of us to wear different weights of clothing , and he talked to me last so would I wear the heaviest clothes I could find? I asked him so like jeans, a hoodie and maybe a jacket? He said sure that sounds fine. I was already thinking that I have a pair of real heavy jeans that haven't been broken in yet, a real heavy duty fleece lined hoodie that's practically a winter jacket and an old jacket I could wear in the water. I asked him if we had to wear shoes too, since i had a pair of hiking boots I've been thinking about wearing for a swim, but he said no we'd be going bare foot. Grrr, not ideal, but not gonna complain considering everything else is sounding pretty awesome.

It definitely wasn't easy to pay attention the rest of the day in school, and at the end of the day I rushed home, got some homework done, then changed into the outfit I mentioned before, stuffed some t-shirts, shorts and sweatpants into my backpack and headed back to school. Met up with my friends in the hallway outside the pool as the fire fighters were starting to get there. The other outfits were- Kevin (whose dad is the fire fighter) was in jeans, t-shirt and a light blue windbreaker with the fire department logo on it. Bill was just in a red tshirt and cargo shorts. Chase was in a gray hoodie and sweatpants. after what seemed like a long time we headed into the locker room. It was weird in a good way to go through the locker room and only take off my shoes and socks but leave all my other clothes on. Walk out into the pool area and by now I'm 100% ready to just jump in, but the fire fighters spend the next half hour or so talking about their techniques and the equipment they'll use. Kevin and Bill want to be fire fighters so they were paying as close attention as the fire fighters were. I was just pacing back and forth between the bleachers and pool dipping my toes in the water waiting for them to quit talking and get to work. FINALLY they say they're ready for us and without further ado the 4 of us jump in the pool. After a few seconds to get used to being completely soaked fully clothed we head over to the shallow end and they start their training.

Some of the stuff they'd have us do... since Bill was just in shorts and a tshirt and I was in heavy clothes they'd practice pulling him from the pool and then pulling me from the pool to show how much heavier clothes make you. Bill and I are about the same weight but everyone said it was much much more difficult to pull me out of the water. THen they'd take us into the deep end and ask us to dive down to the bottom and they'd practice diving down and pulling us up to the surface. Then they had a raft thing that they'd practice pushing us onto while we were in the middle of the pool.

One of the things they told us was to try to be "dead weight," they didn't want us to try to help when we'd get "rescued." It wasn't hard, since after a few minutes we were all super tired from swimming around fully clothed. It was quite a workout!! This was all yesterday, and I'm still sore and tired today.

We were probably in the water for about 2 hours total, and we were all wiped out by the time the training was over. Only other funny thing htat happened was when I went to dry off and change into dry clothes... I brought extra shorts and tshirts and a pair of sweatpants (partly hoping that I'd get to go for another swim in another set of clothes)... but didn't bring any dry boxers. Fortunately that wasn't a huge deal since I just had to get out to my car and drive home, but it could have been uncomfortable if I could go straight home to change. Also took a fully clothed shower when I got home. My parents caught me carrying a pile of wet clothes to the laundry afterwards, but they knew I was doing the water rescue training so it didn't suprrise them and they didn't notice I actually had two sets of wet clothes in there :-)

Just wanted to post this story about a surprise opportunity I got in the dead of winter here!.

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