Fire Science classes get hands-on experience
Tyffani Taylor
Issue date: 9/26/05 Section: News
Two weeks before the end of the spring semester last year the college fire truck wheeled into El Dorado.
The truck came a great distance from Clemens, North Carolina all the way to El Dorado, Kansas. Some problems did occur along the way, but the fire truck made it here in one piece.
"Fire trucks are not made to drive on long trips," Tony Yaghjian, fire science corridinator, said.
The truck will serve many different purposes for BCC and the community of El Dorado.
The fire truck helps prepare the students enrolled in fire science classes at Butler to become more knowledgeable with their line of study.
"The fire science students were in need of hands on experience," Yaghjian said.
Having a fire truck for the fire science students to use allows them to have experience driving and operating pumps.
"The truck serves as a training prop that teaches the students," Ken Nakaten, El Dorado Fire Chief, said.
El Dorado and the college have an agreement over the fire truck. The El Dorado fire department is allowed use of BCC's fire truck in return that the truck does not have to be licensed or registered.
The El Dorado fire department would only need to use Butler's fire truck for training and emergency purposes.
The fire department of El Dorado is allowed use of Butler's truck to train their fire fighters so that their "first call trucks" don't have to be used.
"The fire department would only need to use the college fire truck in a worst case scenario, or if our fire fighters need extra driving practice," Nakaten said.
The fire truck benefits BCC greatly. It offers things that books can not and gives students an extra boost of understanding.
"Most colleges can't offer this," Yaghjian said.
The fire department has a mutual agreement with all the fire departments in the county for other trucks to be borrowed in the case of an emergency, but BCC's fire truck is the closest.
"Its good to have the extra truck," Nakaten said.
The truck brings many new advantages to the college and the community.
The truck came a great distance from Clemens, North Carolina all the way to El Dorado, Kansas. Some problems did occur along the way, but the fire truck made it here in one piece.
"Fire trucks are not made to drive on long trips," Tony Yaghjian, fire science corridinator, said.
The truck will serve many different purposes for BCC and the community of El Dorado.
The fire truck helps prepare the students enrolled in fire science classes at Butler to become more knowledgeable with their line of study.
"The fire science students were in need of hands on experience," Yaghjian said.
Having a fire truck for the fire science students to use allows them to have experience driving and operating pumps.
"The truck serves as a training prop that teaches the students," Ken Nakaten, El Dorado Fire Chief, said.
El Dorado and the college have an agreement over the fire truck. The El Dorado fire department is allowed use of BCC's fire truck in return that the truck does not have to be licensed or registered.
The El Dorado fire department would only need to use Butler's fire truck for training and emergency purposes.
The fire department of El Dorado is allowed use of Butler's truck to train their fire fighters so that their "first call trucks" don't have to be used.
"The fire department would only need to use the college fire truck in a worst case scenario, or if our fire fighters need extra driving practice," Nakaten said.
The fire truck benefits BCC greatly. It offers things that books can not and gives students an extra boost of understanding.
"Most colleges can't offer this," Yaghjian said.
The fire department has a mutual agreement with all the fire departments in the county for other trucks to be borrowed in the case of an emergency, but BCC's fire truck is the closest.
"Its good to have the extra truck," Nakaten said.
The truck brings many new advantages to the college and the community.