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Mission 68 was our 20th mission to Paraguay.The team, working with the Junta National de Cuerpos de Bomberos Voluntarious del Paraguay trained over 110 firefighters in Incident Command, safe working at heights and road traffic collision procedures. The team also visited 22 fire stations throughout the country to better understand the needs and requirements.
David Kay - Scottish Fire & Rescue Service
Dave Wishart - Scottish Fire & Rescue Service (Rtd)
Fraser Watson - Omniserv
David Kay - Scottish Fire & Rescue Service
Jake Anderson - Dumfires & Galloway Fire & Rescue Service (Rtd)
Kevin Tong - Fife Fire & Rescue Service (Rtd)
Jake Anderson - Dumfires & Galloway Fire & Rescue Service (Rtd)
Joe Hislop - Northumberland Fire & Rescue Service
Sandy Gillespie - Scottish Fire & Rescue Service
John Greenfield - Hart Medical Services
David Kay - Scottish Fire & Rescue Service
Kenny Forbes - Scottish Fire & Rescue (Rtd)
Jake Anderson - Dumfires & Galloway Fire & Rescue Service (Rtd)
Billy Mackenzie - Scottish Fire & Rescue Service
Graeme Dobie - Scottish Fire & Rescue Service
This mission to Paraguay was a techical training mission to carry out repair and maintenence work on vehicles and equipment and train personnel to carry out on servicing of vehicles and breathing apparatus equipment. The team consisted of:
Trevor Brady - Mines Rescue Service
Gordon Stewart - Fife Fire & Rescue (Rtd)
David Kay - Scottish Fire & Rescue Service
Gordon Stewart - Fife Fire & Rescue (Rtd)
Jake Anderson - Dumfries & Galloway Fire & Rescue Service (Rtd)
George Davies - Fife Fire & Rescue Service/Scottish Fire Service College (Rtd)
David Kay - Fife Fire & Rescue Service
Jake Anderson - Dumfries & Galloway Fire & Rescue Service (Rtd)
Jim Mcdonald - Fife Fire & Rescue Service (Rtd)
Jake Anderson - Dumfries & Galloway Fire & Rescue Service (Rtd)
Jim Mcdonald - Fife Fire & Rescue Service (Rtd)
Gary Johnstone - Dundee Airport Fire & Rescue Service/Fife Fire & Rescue Service
Charlie Gill - Mines Rescue Service
Mission 27 was a mission to continue support to the Junta National de Cuerpos de Bomberos Voluntarious del Paraguay. The team carried out training on general firefighting, road traffic collision and aviation firefighting techniques. Two members of the team also carried out an assessment of an area in Argentina to start support. (Mission 28)
David Kay - Fife Fire & Rescue Service
Gary Johnstone - Dundee Airport Fire & Rescue Service/Fife Fire & Rescue Service
Tom McLucas - Fife Fire & Rescue Service Rtd
Gordon Stewart - Fife Fire & Rescue Service Rtd
David Kay - Fife Fire & Rescue Service
Jake Anderson - Dumfries & Galloway Fire & Rescue Service (Rtd)
Jim Mcdonald - Fife Fire & Rescue Service (Rtd)
David Kay - Fife Fire & Rescue Service
Jim Mcdonald - Fife Fire & Rescue Service (Rtd)
Trevor Brady - Mines Rescue Service
Marc Gibson - Dundee Airport Fire & Rescue Service
This mission carried out training on various up to day techniques including Incident Command Procedures, a relatively new concept for Paraguay, especially with the multiple fire services in operation. Other training on Breathing Apparatus, RTC and practical exercises to pull all the training together.
David Kay - Fife Fire & Rescue Service
Jim Mcdonald - Fife Fire & Rescue Service (Rtd)
David Hume - Edinburgh Airport Fire & Rescue Service
Our third mission to Paraguay carried out training on RTC, casualty handling, breathing apparatus and Haz Mat.
Tam McLucas - Fife Fire & Rescue Service
Kevin Reid - Fife Fire & Rescue Service
Steven Nicole - Edinburgh Airport Fire & Rescue Service
This mission was based around the donation of our 11th vehicle which was a donated Meteor airpprt light foam tender called Spirit of Edinburgh. Training was carried out on the vehicle as well as firefighting and breathing apparatus training with over 150 firefighters.
David Kay - Fife Fire & Rescue Service
David Hume - Edinburgh Airport Fire & Rescue Service
William Graham - Edinburgh Airport Fire Service (Rtd)
Our first mission to Paraguay where we followed a container of much needed equipment including hydraulic rescue equipment, breathing apparatus, PPE and ladders.
David Kay - Fife Fire & Rescue Service
Jim Mcdonald - Fife Fire & Rescue Service (Rtd)
Trevor Brady - Mines Rescue Service
Kevin Reid - Fife Fire & Rescue Service
