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Coast Guard training: Unsmooth sailing

Lt. j.g. Thomas Faulkenberry, commanding officer of the Dorado, said the crew usually likes to be out patrolling the seas when the weather is nice, but that annual training is necessary.

“It’s really good for a small crew like this,” Faulkenberry said.  “It’s good to train.”

He said the Dorado has recently seen a 70 percent turnover in crew members due to the Coast Guard moving officers around to other posts. He said the training should help everyone be on the same page when emergencies arise.

A three-member training team from Alameda helped the local crew of eight prepare for emergencies on the ship Wednesday and will continue today.

Officials practiced responding to a fire in the ship’s engine room  and trainers simulated scenarios using color-coded flags. One trainer waving a red flag representing fire rushed at a crewman clad in firefighting gear. The “flames” drove the firefighter from the room.

Then everything went black. The electricity had been shut off.

Outside on the deck, the crew donned fire safety suits and set up a fire hose to be carried down to the engine room.

A couple of crew members struggled to get a pump going that would provide ocean water to douse the flames.

Eventually the fire was deemed to be out after crew members carried the hose down to the engine room.

Faulkenberry said the training is especially valuable when things don’t go smoothly and equipment proves difficult. 

“We like it when the drills don’t exactly go as planned, because then you learn something,” he said.

The Dorado is responsible for patrolling 290 miles of  the California coast from the Oregon border to Point Arena, almost to Bodega Bay.

Fire Safety Coloring Pages for Kids. Free Online Printable Pictures

There are some serious misconceptions about house fires like the number one misconception when people thinks fire will not happen to them. It is like putting their heads in the sand and ignoring the truth about such a disaster. The number two misconception is that it only happens to people on television. Why do Americans think this way? That is why children can learn at school and from fire safety coloring pages about the dangers of fire.

It is never to early to teach children about fire safety. Although they learn at school, from parents and grandparents, firemen and from television fire safety coloring pages helps to teach fire safety too. Most people do not know that house fires kills more Americans than all natural disasters combined. Most adults do not know that the United States ranks eighth among all of the industrialized nations for deaths caused by fire.

Maybe more adults should take time using the fire safety coloring pages to learn about smoke detectors and that smoke detectors saves lives. Yet the majority, ninety-five percent, of American homes have smoke detectors but seventy-five percent do not have batteries in the smoke detectors rendering them useless. Most people do not know that there are different types of smoke detectors such as ionization and photo electric detectors or even dual sensor smoke alarms with both ionization and photo electric detectors.