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Training Delivery - Breathing Apparatus Department - Hot Fire Training
We conduct realistic Hot Fire Breathing Apparatus Training for all operational fire fighters in West Yorkshire, to allow them to be competent in dealing with the varying and difficult situations that they may encounter when attending incidents in West Yorkshire. We take the emissions produced from the training complex to air from the hot fire training facility very seriously.
West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service work closely with officers of Kirklees Council Environmental Health department and the local community to ensure that the ‘best practicable means’ are being taken to minimise emissions from the hot fire training facility.
The new smoke discharge pollution control system (installed October 2009) will provide performance assurance and is the preferred technical, practical and economical option.
This system will incorporate all of the basic system contents from outlets and canopy positions to the collector position with a fan unit and discharge flue and a twenty metre discharge stack.
The duct work system is a specialist high temperature, high pressure, ultra-tight seal system. The fan system is a high pressure, high volume, high temperature, explosion-proof unit with a variable speed drive controlled via an inverter system. The discharge section consists of a vertical high level; long throw discharge to ensure adequate clearance and air dilution.
The system should collect a very high proportion of the smoke and has been approved by Environmental Health and the Health and Safety Executive.
With this in mind we no longer intend to publish dates that hot fire training will be carried out as the effect to local residents should be negligible.
Updated 12/10/2009