Shields Ferry crew members take part in a firefighting course

Shields Ferry crew members have taken part in firefighting training to prepare them in the event of a fire at sea.

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00:00well it was absolutely it was great because we needed to rescue the person out of the fire

00:07and it was a real fire so it was all like a real exercise and it was just it was hard

00:15but you really have to push yourself to to do something like this and I enjoyed it very much

00:22and you also at the end you need to put off the fire as well put down the fire so yeah it was

00:29really hard because it was ladders to climb and and stairs to go down and you have to work as a

00:34team so you have to communicate with your team as well so it really involves very good communication

00:40skills and and things like that in order to work together to get yourself out of that situation

00:46and to also save the person that you are meant to be saving and then covering that person all the way

00:53up um you know in the way where you came down you have to carry the dummy which is a person

00:59um all the way up so that was challenging a bit but we did it do you enjoy it and how you feel i really

01:05really enjoyed it i'm all pumped up and um you know i could do another one right now but yes it was

01:11really great my background is ex-war navy ex-fire service and the training we do here is probably

01:18more the most realistic training you are going to get uh in the country if not probably the best

01:23training you're going to get with live fire um today we've had nexus here uh training we've had a few

01:29next staff here before um they've all enjoyed themselves it is quite challenging uh but they've

01:36all reached that standard that we require for them to pass the uh the course that they've actually

01:41carried out today it's vital training for all the furry crew and this forms part of what we call

01:45their competent crew training which is an mca requirement to allow our our um crew to operate

01:51on the vessel and there's four elements to this training firefighting is just the first one and

01:56then we have sea survival personal social responsibility and also an element of first

02:00day training which they undertake so all the crew go through this training before we allow them to

02:04operate on the vessel supervised it is a challenging course you do have to be relatively fit to go and

02:10undertake it because it can be quite strenuous as you've already seen by going in them smoke-filled

02:14compartments but you know all the crew do seem to enjoy it and it's something that they go and

02:18revisit every five years