Q&A
Mental performance training for FDNY firefighters
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Chief of Special Operations Malcolm Moore elaborates on the mental performance training provided to FDNY firefighters. This training is designed to help firefighters manage stress and maintain composure in high-pressure situations.
- Mental performance training has been incorporated over the past 5-6 years
- Instructors from across the country are brought in to conduct the training
- The training focuses on managing stress and maintaining calm in chaotic fire scenes
Malcolm Moore
0:39:02
If I may, just add on to what Dan just gave you about mental performance because I think that's part of what you're talking about.
0:39:12
Over the last, say, 5 or 6 years, we've incorporated mental performance training, bringing in instructors from all over the country.
0:39:22
As part of our training for firefighters, even before they get in firehouse of of how to operate the obstacles they're gonna face, the stresses they're gonna feel on their bodies in those moments.
0:39:34
And I've taken the class, taken it actually several times different levels of it.
0:39:40
And it it definitely it it it is a phenomenal thing to to sit through and and watch and see how your body reacts.
0:39:51
As situations and a fire scene.
0:39:53
You pull up to a building, and there are people hanging out of the windows all over the place that fires here, and and this is going on here, and you have all of the stresses to be able to maintain that calm in that moment.
0:40:05
That's part of the train that we're we're given to our members also.
Kevin Riley
0:40:09
Okay.
0:40:09
But what I do wanna ask, how do the fire utilize technology such as drone?
0:40:13
Yeah.
Malcolm Moore
0:40:14
I'm sorry.
0:40:14
I did that was more imaging.
0:40:15
Oh, my apologies.
Kevin Riley
0:40:17
I really I I do appreciate that that answer because that leads into my follow-up question after, so I appreciate the answer.
Malcolm Moore
0:40:25
Okay.
0:40:26
So technology, thermal imaging cameras we've had for years.
0:40:30
They're they're a phenomenal asset to have.
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When you're in a a blacked out whole way, you know, trying to make your way into a fire apartment.
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Simply put, they work.
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You know, you you hold the camera up, and and you're able to see things you would never be able to see with the naked eye.
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In terms of drones.
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We've been flying drones for the last 7 years.
0:40:52
We've been building the program, and we used them in all sorts of different capacities.
0:40:56
We used them at collapse operations.
0:40:58
We used them at fires to give us an aerial view of and even a lot of times, a thermal imaging view Okay.
0:41:07
Of the fire building so that we can make sure we see all of the hot spots in in essentially finish up before we before we take up.
