WE'VE STRUCK A NERVE!!

I SAY THIS, BECAUSE I JUST GOT THIS FROM SOMEONE WHO SOUNDS LIKE THEY'RE FROM WITHIN THE FIRE SERVICE, AND THEY ARE BACKING UP EVERYTHING I SAID. SOUNDS LIKE I'M NOT ONLY GETTING ON A FEW NERVES, BUT MORE EOPLE ARE SEEINGHTE TRUTH, AND IT'S SETTNG THEM FREE. CHECK OUT HIS INFO BELOW AND SEE FOR YOURSELF.
We saw your post and read the article in the Courier Times about the training at the township training center.
Once again, Fred Harran stated it is the second largest training center in the state. That is not true. It is the second tallest training center. What it is not, is a fire training center! The article said there was smoke and fire coming from the building during the training! We hope that is not true. The building was NOT DESIGNED for any type of heat and DOES NOT have the required heat tiles in accordance to the NFPA standards. NFPA standard 1402 is the guide for building fire service training centers that conduct live burns, NFPA standard 1403 is the guide for Live Fire Standing. The building and the type of training that was conducted does not meet either standard!
Not to mention, that two of the three fire companies participating in the apartment training exercise were NOT Bensalem Fire Companies! In fairness, Fred Harran probably didn’t know that, nor does he care.
NONE of the other five fire companies were invited. During live fire or hazardous conditions training, an ambulance is required to be on scene. None was mentioned, and those that were invited to the training said there was NONE there. Even simulated smoke (which is all you can do at that building) is considered a hazardous training.
The video did show interesting rescues where a training dummy was pulled from the building by its face and arm and thrown onto the ground and left. We have NEVER seen that included in ANY rescue training we have participated in.
The fact that Fred Harran has changed his claims from “most advanced training building in the state” to the second biggest next to Reading speaks volumes. What Fred Harran fails to mention is that in the rest of the state our building is referred to as “The White Elephant” because, unlike the Reading training center or the one located in Lower Bucks County you can’t conduct LIVE fire training at our center.
If you are interested in further NFPA standards regarding the conducting of live fire or hazardous environment training contact the Lower Bucks County Emergency Services Training Center. They have all the documentation you will need.
They also provide the training with certified instructors to the fire departments for free. We should know, we spend a lot of time there.
THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNTY BASED ON THIS PERSON'S FEEDBACK, TO SEE FOR YOURSELF THAT ALL THIS WAS, WAS A USLESS PUBLICITY STUNT, MEANT TO IMPRESS OTHERS. PROBLEM IS THAT IT DIDN'T AND IT FURTHER SHOWS HOW BENSALEM FIRE/EMERGENCY SERVICE IS THE LAUGHING STOCK OF BUCKS COUNTY!!