The Palmer Doll House and Training

4/1/2020 (Permalink)

Demonstration of how fire moves through a home.

The Palmer Doll House is an effective tool for the training of firemen in both classroom and hands on. For a Department to be effective as with any business knowledge and education are paramount.

The behavior of fire and its dynamics as well as the tactics employed by the fire service are faced by departments all over the world on a daily basis. 

Fire Dynamics means basically how a fire starts, how it spreads and how it develops. Fire Behavior is the way a fire acts in the environment it is in.

When the Department arrives on scene and open a door to gain access, air rushes in to give the fire its nourishment to grow rapidly and spread.

Using the Palmer Doll House is a superb vehicle to show and demonstrate how ventilation of positive and negative degrees allows to see how backdraft and flashover occurs.  It also can be a tool to demonstrate tactics and results therefrom.

Live fire training is a way to get students involved and it seems that most firefighters learn more from doing things in a up close and personal than as opposed to maybe a PowerPoint presentation.  Students who spend time at a doll house training can read the fire and the moderator can explain the science behind it. This type of training as well as all of the other things that go into the fire training allows them to be in a position to attack the situation.