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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.
Exercise COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT 17, which took place at 4th Canadian Division Support Base Petawawa from 19 to 22 September, provided an opportunity for Canadian Army stakeholders and civilian leaders to experience a personal and in-depth understanding of Canadian Army capabilities, equipment as well as the professionalism and skill of Canadian soldiers.
Photo by: Garrison Imaging Petawawa
L’exercice COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT 2017, qui s’est tenu à la Base de soutien de la 4e Division du Canada Petawawa, du 19 au 22 septembre, a procuré à des intervenants liés à l’Armée canadienne et à des dirigeants civils une occasion de voir et de bien comprendre personnellement en quoi consistent les capacités et l’équipement de l’Armée canadienne, de même que de se rendre compte du professionnalisme et des compétences des soldats canadiens.
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An Airman struggles to get his hood sealed quickly during a simulated mission oriented protective posture level 4 attack at the Phase II exercise Aug. 10 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. More than 100 Airmen braved black flag conditions in chemical gear and gas masks to execute self-aid and buddy care, security and chemical attack avoidance missions. The Phase II was part of a large week-long Operational Readiness Exercise on base. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)
MEDITERRANEAN SEA, October. 3. 2017. A Spanish Navy Harrier II Plus jet and two French Navy Rafale fly by ESPS Juan Carlos I after conducting air combat training during exercise Brilliant Mariner 17.
Brilliant Mariner 2017 is a NATO-Led interoperability exercise to certify French Maritime Component Command (MCC) capability in preparation to assume the role of NATO Response Force (Maritime) 2018. Brilliant Mariner 2017 involves more than 3500 service members from 13 nations, 27 warships, 2 Maritime Patrol Aircraft, 1 submarine and various amphibious assets. NATO Photo by FRAN CPO Christian Valverde.
BLACK SEA, July 19. 2018. SNMG2 unit TCG Fatih, and HS Daniolos conduct drills at sea during Exercise BREEZE 18. BREEZE is designed to enhance the interoperability of the participating units and strengthen cooperation by practicing different warfare techniques in a multi-dimensional scenario. Multinational participating forces and their crews will be tested in a wide range of warfare tactics focusing on regional security. This year participants include 25 ships, 1 submarine, 9 aircraft, and 2340 military staff out of 11 countries (Bulgaria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherland, Poland, Turkey, Romania and the United States ). NATO Photo by WO FRAN C. Valverde.NATO Photo by WO FRAN C. Valverde.
US Army paratroopers prepare to tether Lightweight Counter Mortar Radar (LCMR) to Chinook helicopter during exercise Swift Response.
Swift Response 2021 is a US Army-led multinational exercise involving more than 7,000 paratroopers from 10 NATO Allies.
All paratroopers were vaccinated against COVID-19 before arrival.
Exercise COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT 17, which took place at 4th Canadian Division Support Base Petawawa from 19 to 22 September, provided an opportunity for Canadian Army stakeholders and civilian leaders to experience a personal and in-depth understanding of Canadian Army capabilities, equipment as well as the professionalism and skill of Canadian soldiers.
Photo by: Garrison Imaging Petawawa
L’exercice COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT 2017, qui s’est tenu à la Base de soutien de la 4e Division du Canada Petawawa, du 19 au 22 septembre, a procuré à des intervenants liés à l’Armée canadienne et à des dirigeants civils une occasion de voir et de bien comprendre personnellement en quoi consistent les capacités et l’équipement de l’Armée canadienne, de même que de se rendre compte du professionnalisme et des compétences des soldats canadiens.
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Section d'imagerie Petawawa
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko visit the exercise and meet with participants
First Seaman Vitālijs Dmitrijevs of the LVNS Tālivaldis during BALTOPS 2020. The maritime exercise BALTOPS 2020 involved around 30 ships from 19 NATO Allies and partner nations. It's an annual exercise and it ran from 7-16 June 2020.
A suspicious person attempts to infiltrate a fortified command and control position at night during Exercise Beverly Bulldog 08-03 at Kunsan Air Base, Korea, July 24, 2008. Kunsan is participating in a peninsula wide operational readiness exercise to evaluate its readiness and its ability to conduct its wartime mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Gustavo Gonzalez/Released)
Exercise COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT 17, which took place at 4th Canadian Division Support Base Petawawa from 19 to 22 September, provided an opportunity for Canadian Army stakeholders and civilian leaders to experience a personal and in-depth understanding of Canadian Army capabilities, equipment as well as the professionalism and skill of Canadian soldiers.
Photo by: Garrison Imaging Petawawa
L’exercice COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT 2017, qui s’est tenu à la Base de soutien de la 4e Division du Canada Petawawa, du 19 au 22 septembre, a procuré à des intervenants liés à l’Armée canadienne et à des dirigeants civils une occasion de voir et de bien comprendre personnellement en quoi consistent les capacités et l’équipement de l’Armée canadienne, de même que de se rendre compte du professionnalisme et des compétences des soldats canadiens.
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On Tuesday 21st June 2022, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service hosted Exercise Mitchell, a large-scale training exercise at their Bury Training and Safety Centre.
The exercise focused on testing the multi-agency operational response to a CBRNE incident by working with partners and volunteers.
Volunteers were on hand to play the part of casualties following a chemical incident on a tram. Greater Manchester Police (GMP), Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS), North West Ambulance Service (NWAS), Transport for Greater Manchester (TFfG) and other partners responded to the incident.
The exercise commenced with joint working between emergency service control rooms in the early stages of the incident, with several calls being made on 999 calls reporting an incident had occurred on the tram.
It took the form of a multi-agency response to the incident in the morning, working with GMP and NWAS. Later in the afternoon crews also set up and tested the Mass Decontamination Unit, helping volunteers through the process.
This training helps to reinforce understanding of different agencies roles and responsibilities during the response to such an incident and validate learning from the response to previous Major Incidents in Greater Manchester. The exercise also reinforced JESIP principles and procedures to help embed multi-agency working amongst Greater Manchester and regional partners.
Further elements of the exercise will take place later in the year, focusing on the Strategic Coordinating Group (SCG) and Tactical Coordinating Group (TCG) elements of a Major Incident.
The overall exercise helped to test the multi-agency response at the Strategic, Tactical and Operational levels including looking at the operational response, Local Resilience Forum procedures and interoperability between organisations.
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Crewmember from the LVNS Tālivaldis lowering an exercise mine into the Baltic Sea during mine countermeasures training. The maritime exercise BALTOPS 2020 involved around 30 ships from 19 NATO Allies and partner nations. It's an annual exercise and it ran from 7-16 June 2020.
Exercise COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT 17, which took place at 4th Canadian Division Support Base Petawawa from 19 to 22 September, provided an opportunity for Canadian Army stakeholders and civilian leaders to experience a personal and in-depth understanding of Canadian Army capabilities, equipment as well as the professionalism and skill of Canadian soldiers.
Photo by: Garrison Imaging Petawawa
L’exercice COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT 2017, qui s’est tenu à la Base de soutien de la 4e Division du Canada Petawawa, du 19 au 22 septembre, a procuré à des intervenants liés à l’Armée canadienne et à des dirigeants civils une occasion de voir et de bien comprendre personnellement en quoi consistent les capacités et l’équipement de l’Armée canadienne, de même que de se rendre compte du professionnalisme et des compétences des soldats canadiens.
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Section d'imagerie Petawawa
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko visit the exercise and meet with participants
Lithuanian troops receive orders on Steadfats Cobalt (SFCT) 2015 in Walcz, Poland
NATO troops from over 20 countries including Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Belgium, the UK and France have taken part in Exercise Steadfast Cobalt 2015 (SFCT 2015) from the 4th May to 5th June in Walcz, Poland. SFCT 2015 is an Allied Commnd Operation, NATO Response Force (NRF) exercise, designed to serve as a key element in the training and evaluation of NRF 2016 within its certification process by the Commander of Joint Force Command (JFC) Brunssum. There are almost twice the number of participating units as for the same excercise last year.
Members of A Company (Airborne) 3rd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment participate in an exercise in a patrol base in Tancos, Portugal during JOINTEX 15 as part of NATO’s Exercise Trident Juncture 15 on October 24 2015..
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Photo: Corporal Alex Parenteau, Canadian Forces Combat Camera.
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NORWAY, Oct. 27. 2018.GEN. MCM OPS WITH SNMCMG1 Belgium Air Force Helicopter Alouette III takes off from mother ship BNS Godetia for a tactical flight over the fjords in suppport of the Amphibious Livex of Trident Juncture. Trident Juncture 18 is designed to ensure that NATO forces are trained, able to operate together and ready to respond to any threat from any direction. Trident Juncture 18 takes place in Norway and the surrounding areas of the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea, including Iceland and the airspace of Finland and Sweden.
With around 50,000 participants from 31 nations Trident Juncture 2018 is one of NATO’s largest exercises in recent years. More than 250 aircraft, 65 ships and 10,000 vehicles are involved in the exercise to perform and conduct air, land, maritime, special operation and amphibious drills. NATO Photo By WO FRAN C.Valverde
The Humanitarian and Disaster Relief Team Lead provides a DisasterAWARE software training to better plan for natural disasters in the country during Exercise TRADEWINDS '23 at the Skeldon Heritage Resort in Skeldon, Guyana, on July 17th, 2023.
Photo by: Sailor First Class Alexandra Proulx, Visual Communications Support, Canadian Armed Forces Photo
Le responsable de l’équipe d’aide humanitaire et de secours aux sinistrés donne une formation sur le logiciel DisasterAWARE pour assurer une meilleure préparation en cas de catastrophe naturelle dans le pays, dans le cadre de l’exercice TRADEWINDS 23 à l’hôtel Skeldon Heritage Resort, à Skeldon (Guyana), le 17 juillet 2023.
Photo : Matelot de 1re classe Alexandra Proulx, Soutien des communications visuelles, Forces armées canadiennes
Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG1) ship BNS Louise Marie as seen from Swedish corvette HSwMS Nyköping during a combined anti-submarine exercise in the North Atlantic on October 26, 2018 as part of NATO exercise Trident Juncture 2018.
20181026 NorgeFartygen som deltar i övningen TRJE18 genomför eskortöningar ubåtsjaktövningar.TRJE 18(Trident Juncture 2018) är en av Natos största övningar och som huvudsakligen genomförs i Norge. Totalt deltar ca 40 000 soldater, 10 000 fordon, 130 flygplan och 70 fartyg. Sverige deltar med 2500 soldater, åtta Jas Gripen och två fartyg av Visbyklass.
NSRI Bakoven's Rotarian Schipper, Table Bay's Spirit of Vodacon and the Air Sea Rescue unit participated in an exercise with the SA Navy submarine SAS Queen Modjadji II and a SAAF Lynx helicopter off Sea Point. Picture Sea Rescue
Norwegian, Canadian and Danish naval officers ride on rigid hull inflateable boats (RHIBs) during a navigation exercise November 5, 2018 as part of NATO exercise Trident Juncture. Photo: Oda Linnea Brekke Iden / Forsvaret
Norske, kanadiske og danske marine offiserer under navex øvelse.
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Army Air Corps Westland Apache AH1 Helicopter
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DILI, Timor-Leste (Oct. 11, 2012) Hull Maintenance Technician 2nd Class William Jones, assigned to amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5), explains the soft patching procedures to a group of sailors from the Timor-Leste Defense Force (F-FDTL) during Exercise Crocodilo 2012. The multilateral exercise promotes partnership through community service and training with the F-FDTL. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Daniel Viramontes/Released)
Crew from the LVNS Tālivaldis in a rib boat being lifted back on to the ship during mine countermeasures training in the Baltic Sea. The maritime exercise BALTOPS 2020 involved around 30 ships from 19 NATO Allies and partner nations. It's an annual exercise and it ran from 7-16 June 2020.
Exercise COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT 17, which took place at 4th Canadian Division Support Base Petawawa from 19 to 22 September, provided an opportunity for Canadian Army stakeholders and civilian leaders to experience a personal and in-depth understanding of Canadian Army capabilities, equipment as well as the professionalism and skill of Canadian soldiers.
Photo by: Garrison Imaging Petawawa
L’exercice COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT 2017, qui s’est tenu à la Base de soutien de la 4e Division du Canada Petawawa, du 19 au 22 septembre, a procuré à des intervenants liés à l’Armée canadienne et à des dirigeants civils une occasion de voir et de bien comprendre personnellement en quoi consistent les capacités et l’équipement de l’Armée canadienne, de même que de se rendre compte du professionnalisme et des compétences des soldats canadiens.
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Section d'imagerie Petawawa
Canadian frigate HMCS VILLE DE QUÉBEC Executive Officer Lieutenant Commander Annick Fortin watches other NATO warships while sailing in formation inside The Trondheim Fjord during Exercise TRIDENT JUNCTURE on October 30, 2018.
Photo: MCpl Andre Maillet, MARPAC Imaging Services