REASONING OF CONSTRUCTION OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL SIMULATOR OF CONTAINER TYPE FOR FIREFIGHTERS TRAINING

Abstract

According to the regulation rules which regulating the preparation and training of firefighters (acting with SCBA) for the intended purpose, their training should be carried out at least once a month in the open air and once a quarter in a smoke chamber. Unfortunately, the regulation rules do not provide clear and understandable rules and regulations for the arrangement of such heat and smoke chambers, training complexes, and the existing ones are morally outdated and do not meet the requirements of today. At the same time, the complex economic and social situation in the state and the excessive cost of constructing such training complexes, even by the models of previous years, making it impossible for them to be built in the garrisons of the SES of Ukraine. The analysis of foreign experience has shown that today it is possible to arrange a training complex for the preparation of firefighters using 40-foot sea containers. The use of such material allows the installation and planning of a multi-purpose container-type training complex (MPCTTC) for several working days, approximately 15-20 meters in height, which will correspond to the height of 4-5 storey buildings, which allow simulating rooms of different area, configuration and layout. The undoubted advantage of such simulators is the ability to fulfil the premises with real smoke and real products of combustion, the supply of fire extinguishing agent to extinguish the real fire, working out the rescue of victims at altitude and in limited space, etc. According to the analysis, the authors propose and reasoning their own design of the MPCTTC that allows performing all the necessary training exercises in the main areas of training firefighter and emergency response manager, namely: preparation of firefighters in SCBA, organization of rescue operations, fire tactics and rescuing from altitude.
All of the above-mentioned advantages of MPCTTC make it possible to prepare a firefighter in conditions as close as possible to the real ones, which is an integral advantage in comparison with the existing simulators on the territory
of Ukraine.