January 8, 2001 - Members of NKFD participated in a mask confidence course to test their abilities when confronted with confined spaces. One of the class objectives is to help firefiighters overcome their fears when presented with a situation where they are unable to see where they are and must find their way out. By learning how to distinguish which direction is out or toward the fire by feeling the couplings of the hose, firefigheters entered the course of several different obstacles. These obstacles ranged from tunnels and tubes to simulations of attic spaces. The final tunnel proved to be more difficult as the firefighters had to enter a one way tunnel and find the exit hatch to escape.
