Troup County firefighters receive training on school bus extrications last week at the county training center on Hamilton Road.
The 16-hour class was presented by Georgia Emergency Management Agency instructors Mike Pace and Chris Wainwright, and the county school system provided two school buses for the training.
The county’s school buses travel more than 2.5 million miles each year and carry about 8,000 students twice a day.
The training consisted of both classroom and practical exercises. Topics included different types of bus construction, emergency exits, extrication tools, access to and removal of passengers, and special and unique considerations of bus rescue.
“School buses are built much stronger than typical passenger cars and require different techniques for extrication,” said fire Capt. Dennis Knight, the department’s training officer.
“We hope we never have to use the knowledge and skills learned during this course, but we are now better prepared if we do.”
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