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Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service's first training exercise on board a ship has been hailed a success.
Crews from around the county were called to Wisbech Port on Wednesday evening (Oct 19) for a simulated fire in the engine room of a 3,000 tonne Russian ship, with casualties and persons overboard.
The Incident Command Unit from Huntingdon attended along with crews from Wisbech and Huntingdon. Crews from Dogsthorpe with specialist in-water training also attended, together with two crews from Outwell and West Walton in Norfolk.
Twenty-five firefighters had to locate and gain access to the ship’s engine room where the fire was located and carry out a search and rescue of all on-board casualties and extinguish all fires.
Dogsthorpe firefighters wearing drysuits used an inflatable boat to locate and rescue three casualties in the water, working alongside two crews from Fenland District Council’s Harbour Authority, who also had three members of staff shoreside, including Harbour Master Jamie Hemming and a representative from Fenland District Council’s Health and Safety Department.
Exercise Poseidon, as it was referred to throughout the exercise, saw dummies thrown into the water some distance from the ship, which was moored at the harbour in Nene Parade, close to the town centre.
Hazards faced by the crews included narrow passageways, trip hazards with ropes and a potential to fall in the water.
On-board operations took place in dark, narrow passageways with one room filled with smoke. Firefighters searching for bodies in the River Nene worked in night-time conditions.
Although Wisbech firefighters have attended a fire on board a ship before, it was over the border in Norfolk.
Wednesday night’s Exercise Poseidon, however, was Cambridgeshire’s first in-county training exercise on board a ship.
Watch Commander Phil Pilbeam, from Wisbech Station, spent eight weeks planning the event with Crew Commander Tim Carr.
“I’m really pleased with how things went. It all went really smoothly.”
He said the exercise provided a unique opportunity for firefighters to train on board a ship.
"Firefighters in Cambridgeshire are well trained and knowledgeable in house fires, factory fires and Road Traffic Collisions etc. However, a ship fire is unique. It's in a confined space, it's made of metal and it's a lot hotter because it's a metal container.
"Ships have an unfamiliar layout to crews. They can be very complex in their layout and this was a unique opportunity for all the crews to attend and to put these different skills into practice."
WC Pilbeam said the exercise had raised some good learning points.
“The inflatable boat from Dogsthorpe was not powerful enough for a tidal area. It was fine going with the tide but not against it. It had to be towed by the two boats from the Harbour Authority.
“Also, the crew set up lots of hose reels to help us out but we couldn’t use them because the couplings didn’t fit ours so we will be talking to the Harbour Master and our Operational Support Group to bring in some specialist hose reels for the harbour.”
He said communication with the nine-strong Russian crew on board the ship, had proved challenging.
“There were definitely language barriers that were an issue. We would ask what we wanted to get across and they would try and put across what they wanted. There were lots of hand signals and lots of pointing and gesturing.”
Despite some of the difficulties faced, he said the whole exercise, from time of call-out to when the crews returned to their stations, took three hours, which was what he had expected.
Harbour Master Jamie Hemming, of Fenland District Council, said with about forty cargo ships arriving at Wisbech Port each year there was a ‘real chance’ of a fire on board a ship so training exercises like this were really helpful.
“There’s a real chance of fire on board a ship. We are the only Port in Cambridgeshire so for Wisbech it is a serious scenario so from that point of view it was good to see the guys working on something a little bit out of their comfort zone.
“The joint exercise went extremely well and it was reassuring for us as a Harbour Authority to see the whole thing co-ordinated in such a professional and timely manner. It will stand us all in good stead should a similar real incident occur.”
Jamie said the Harbour Authority was keen to see more training exercises on board ships in the future.
“I would like to see another training exercise on board a ship at least once or twice a year as it’s a very proactive approach.”
The majority of boats coming into Wisbech arrive from the Baltics carrying timber and leave with scrap metal for Spain.
Got a Nautilus elliptical trainer today. I am so excited, as the stairclimber doesn't feel like a good workout. This sucker is heavy duty!
A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor, assigned to the 199th Fighter Squadron, Hawaii Air National Guard, flies away from a Wisconsin Air National Guard KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft Dec. 11, 2018, after receiving an air-to-air refueling during fighter-exercise Sentry Aloha near the Hawaiian Islands. Sentry Aloha provides tailored, cost effective and realistic combat training for U.S. Air Force, Air National Guard and other Department of Defense services to provide U.S. warfighters with the skill sets necessary to perform their homeland defense and overseas combat missions. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman John Linzmeier)
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Exercise Great Bear
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry crossing the ice bridge over the Tanana River, Tanacross, Alaska.
5 Feb 62
Photo by Pfc. Henri Hebert
CONUS Photo Fac
Fort Devens, Mass
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I really liked how this one turned out. I might have to do something like this for a portrait! Grid spot rocks!
Happened to shoot these with my neighbor (also an aspiring strobist) this weekend, and since they were the two of us experimenting with gobos and grid spots and other light modifiers, I felt it would be okay to post them, as we did exactly what the assignment called for - but without the structure of an actual assignment!
Don't recall Mark II settings, but had a Nikon SS-20 on a stand camera right with a Grid Spot I had just made - about an Inch and a half deep - out of a Home Depot moving box and a gobo made out of the same box on a Nikon SB-80dx.
On camera 580 set to 1/128 to set off peanut slave on SS-20 and similar function on SB-80dx
My willing test subject while my wife was off feeding our child. Vivitar 285HV flashed at 1/4 from camera left.
Learn how to light at Strobist.
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Exercise Timberline
Paratroopers of F Co.,4th BG, 23 inf. board an Army CH-21 helicopter for a heliborne raid during Operation Timberline.
20 Feb 63
by PFC Jerry Hickey
Pictorial Branch
Fort Richardson, Alaska
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Exercise Selva Backstop 2016 is an Adventure Training (AT) Exercise in which participants walk and climb sections of the First World War front line, using the Via Ferrata system that runs across the Dolomites, Italy.
The team will be climbimng in and around Cortina Di Ampezzio which sat firmly within the Italian 4th Army Area of Responsibility (AOR), during 1915-18.
The objectives of this AT is to conduct demanding and arduous exercise which develops the multi-national, multi-ranked participants' teamwork,physical fitness and physical courage, whilst learning about the British 48th Division and the Italian 6th Army experiences during the conflict.
(NATO Photo / WO2 Dan Harmer GBR Army / Released)
KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- An 18th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter rushes a litter to an exercise inject point during a local operational readiness exercise here Aug. 21, 2012. Airmen use local exercises to train on a multitude of scenarios in order to prepare them for real-world contingencies. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Brooke P. Beers)
Staff Sgt. Ryan Burns, 720th Explosive Ordnance Disposal, works to disarm a car bomb during Exercise Vigilant Shield 2010 in Heidelberg July 30.
(Photo by Brandon Spragins, USAG Baden-Wuerttemberg Public Affairs)
Lieutenant-General Hainse the Commander of the Canadian Army, and his group, watch a mounted platoon attack with Alpha Jets demonstration at Drop Zone Anzio, during exercise Collaborative Spirit in Garrison Petawawa on October 18, 2013..
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Photo: Corporal D. Salisbury.
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An M270 multiple launch rocket system fires during a live fire exercise at Rocket Valley, South Korea, Sep. 15, 2017. Battery A, 6th Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment, 210th Field Artillery Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division/ROK-US Combined Division conducted live fire exercise as part of a week-long training, Warrior Thunder, that the unit conducted to train on field artillery operations and section qualification on MLRS Table VI Gunnery. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michelle U. Blesam, 210th FA Bde PAO)
Emergency Services exercise at Barton Locks on the Manchester Ship Canal.
November 2004.
Fire services and Ambulance service respond to an aircraft crashing and hitting a shipping vessel on the canal.
Barton Aerodrome Fire & Rescue Service. (now City Airport)
Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service.
North West Ambulance Service & EMAT team.
KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- Firefighters from the 18th Civil Engineer Squadron carry simulated victim Airman 1st Class Marcanthony Black, 18th Logistics Readiness Squadron vehicle operation dispatcher, to their vehicle during a training inject for a local operational readiness exercise here Aug. 21, 2012. The local exercises allow Airmen to train in a controlled environment and prepare themselves for real-world contingencies. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Brooke P. Beers)
Exercise Selva Backstop 2016 is an Adventure Training (AT) Exercise in which participants walk and climb sections of the First World War front line, using the Via Ferrata system that runs across the Dolomites, Italy.
The team will be climbimng in and around Cortina Di Ampezzio which sat firmly within the Italian 4th Army Area of Responsibility (AOR), during 1915-18.
The objectives of this AT is to conduct demanding and arduous exercise which develops the multi-national, multi-ranked participants' teamwork,physical fitness and physical courage, whilst learning about the British 48th Division and the Italian 6th Army experiences during the conflict.
(NATO Photo / WO2 Dan Harmer GBR Army / Released)
WATERVLIET ARSENAL, N.Y. ― An emergency dispatch yesterday claiming that a man was seriously injured and sulfur dioxide was leaking at the arsenal’s waste treatment plant was the trigger than eventually brought more than 60 first responders from Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer, and Saratoga Counties to the arsenal ̶ all were part of a three-hour hazardous material or HAZMAT exercise.
This Week in Bristol Indiana-9-3-2017 Spotlight on Cummins Park: A sign listing the many features directs visitors to the Park, located behind the Elkhart Co. Historical Museum. Although the popular Splash Pad closes after Labor Day, many other year-round family fun features include: the new wooden Train, a swing set, the basketball court and tennis court. A number of picnic tables are located about the park, including one in the woods overlooking the river. A new red Swing by the Splash Pad is a donor memorial to Wilma Berkey as well as a blue bench nearby. The Little Library with books to take or trade is a recent addition. Near the covered Pavilion (no need to rent) is a large grill. Two groups of exercise machines are located along the paved walking/bike path that circles through the woods by the River. The trash cans have new hoods, and the new regular and handicap portable restrooms were donated by Satellite Industries. The historic Cathcart Cemetery is located at the edge of the Park. A tree and a magnolia bush are donor memorials to Mary Ann Landis’s family. Come see for yourself this family-friendly Park! It is named for Cloyce Cummins.
Chief Warrant Officer Kevin Speer, commanding officer of Coast Guard Station Barnegat Light, pins his father Harold Speer, with a 50th Anniversary Department of Defense Vietnam War Commemoration lapel pin for his service to nation. The annual ceremony pays tribute to the 749 sailors and soldiers who lost their lives April 28, 1944, during The Battle of Exercise Tiger, which began as a top secret naval operation designed to prepare troops for the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class David Micallef
THE biggest live exercise of its kind ever held in Greater Manchester – Exercise Triton II – came to an end this morning (Friday, July 16, 2016) after months of intense planning.
Around 36 organisations across the region and nationally have been taking part in this major emergency planning exercise which saw dozens of emergency vehicles at sites across Greater Manchester and Chinook helicopters flying across the skies.
The complex scenario used was designed to test how local authorities, emergency services and other partners are equipped to tackle a major emergency working together.
Participating ‘players’ also included the military, government, health and utility companies, as well as voluntary agencies.
The exercise started on Monday, July 11, 2016, with ‘warnings’ from the Met Office regarding adverse weather and from the Environment Agency about the growing risk of regional flooding.
The emergency services, including Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS), and partners put procedures in place to ensure that where possible properties and critical infrastructure were protected and the public were warned. This theme was carried on through Tuesday, July 12 and Wednesday, July 13, 2016.
To ensure that both players and plans were tested to their full, a dramatic scenario developed on Thursday, July 14, whereby the bank on the Dove Stone Reservoir in Oldham was breached and water cascaded through a number of boroughs within Greater Manchester.
This meant that evacuation procedures had to be put in place and rest centres set up. Later in the day, a coach ploughed into the River Tame in a mock crash and a full-scale search and rescue operation was carried out.
Paul Argyle, GMFRS’ Deputy County Fire Officer and Chair of Greater Manchester Resilience Forum, said: “Exercise Triton II was a hugely complex emergency planning exercise and I would like to thank all of the agencies that have taken part this week.
"This was a very detailed scenario which had impacts across every part of the region and necessitated a full range of partners taking part.
"The scale of the destruction and chaos in the exercise was deliberately designed to test the region at full stretch.
"We have to do this to ensure we are well prepared to deal with any future real-life event or disaster that might occur – and it is also invaluable that those taking part got the chance to practise essential response skills that would be used during a major incident like this.
"I would particularly like to thank all the volunteers who took part in this exercise. The patience and understanding of local residents and communities on Thursday (as response plans went into effect at 'live' sites) was also greatly appreciated.
“All players have now been 'stood down'. Our next task is to evaluate how the exercise went, step by step. We will want to find out what worked well and crucially to identify and learn any lessons that could help us in the future in real-life situations. I would like to point out that incidents as extreme as this are highly unlikely, but ensuring we practice our response means that we are ready to respond to a variety of scenarios."