Sharing Skills

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Four and a half days of intensive training, conducted by the Barbados Coast Guard has better equipped 10 firefighters of the Barbados Fire Service.

In an effort to ensure the two services can work as a more cohesive team, the firefighters were trained in various aspects of emergency response, including in-water rescue, man overboard drills as well as training on the HMBS Leonard C. Banfield.

At the closing ceremony last Friday, Station Officer Mervin Mayers, stationed at BFS' Probyn Street headquarters, noted the organisation had acquired a new boat, and their training would be called on in the case of emergency situations where its use would be needed.

He also said the training would be another way to improve the customer service offered to the Barbadian public.

Those who graduated were: Acting Sub Officer Lever Jordan, Acting Leading Fire officer Andrew Boyce, and fire officers Junia Griffith, Pernel MCclean, Randy King, Daveson Deane, Lonsdale Blake, Kelan McCalla, Neil Small and Jason Johnson.

"[The two entities] work together and the Fire Service needs to be trained in how to use our equipment," Chief Petty Officer Ryan Selby said to Barbados TODAY at the closing ceremony of the programme this afternoon at the Coast Guard's Spring Garden base.

"In the case of flooding, for example, they would be better trained. For water rescues, like a fire at sea, where the Fire Service would be one of the first to be called, along with the Coast Guard, we will know how to work together as a well organised team." (LW)

Source: news.barbadostoday.bb

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