I started my rookie season in FnC attending MotorSportSafety (MSS).Training (and by training, I mean sitting at picnic tables in the Glen's race garage listening to a lot of general lecture) took two days.
I left day 1 fully qualified to operate for hours with a completely numb ass.
During the second day we did eventually break up into our respective sections for some more verbal instruction (confirming my numb-ass training), and even a little hands on work (namely, playing with fire... extinguishers). They keep a very bent, somewhat older NASCAR Cup car around for just this sort of thing. Of course, it's now rigged with special propane equipment to simulate a car fire (somewhat). Probably not the retirement this team once imagined for their car. And just who was in the yellow Dodge #50, anyway?
Anyway, here are 2 professionals showing how to light a car on fire, and then put it out, and then another RSI rookie getting to play hero. Also, note the army of porta-johns in perfect parade formation.We won't tend to encounter situations where we'll be the fire-fighter on the scene (there are proper trucks and crews for that staged in locations similar to FnC), but it is good to know how to use these powder-based extinguishers in case a car pulls right up to our station and the driver needs fire suppression ASAP in order for them to evacuate the car. We're not, under any circumstances, permitted to "go over the rail," so if there's a fire beyond the 15-20ft (I think) reach of our extinguishers, there's little we can do to help. Our job is first and foremost, controlling traffic around any incident in our area of responsibility.
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