fandomhigh | Leadership/Outdoorsmanship, Thursday Morning, Danger Room

Students arriving in the Danger Room found it to resemble a large cement room with seating not unlike that in the gym for sports events. Forward, left, and right were large steel doors with valve locks on them. On the lowest bench, an array of safety equipment had been laid out: fire-retardant jackets, pants, and boots, as well as hoods, and self-contained breathing apparati (or SCBAs); fire extinguishers lined the bench across the aisle.

Honor stood just before one of the steel doors at the front of the room. Her guardsman, Andrew LaFollet, hovered protectively off to the side, and -- for a change -- Nimitz was nowhere to be found. If one guessed he didn't want to be anywhere near the heat, they might be right.

"Come in please, sign in, and take a seat while I upload some background reading for you. We'll begin with some activities after you've read." She smiled up at the students filtering in. "If you don't have your minicomp with you, please find someone who does and share the material."

After a moment, the students with minicomps found several documents uploaded to their computers:

Information on the Fire Triangle/Tetrahedron

Classification of Fuels

The Basics of Fire Control

Honor gave the students time to read through the documentation before continuing. "As you might have guessed, we're going to work on basic damage control. At the end of the class period, you will be divided into two teams. Each team leader will be fed 'live' damage control information. They will then lead their team to the appropriate hatch and extinguish the fires. Each of you will be wearing the gear you see, and using the fire extinguishers on the opposite aisle."

She then spent the next few minutes demonstrating -- with the assistance of a somewhat disgruntled LaFollet -- the appropriate way to wear the gear that had been provided. "It is extremely important that you wear this the way it was intended. To do otherwise could injure you and, as a result, increase the risks to your teammates.

"Now, suit up each of you, and we'll run through a few examples. Once everyone feels more comfortable, we'll divide into teams. Mr. Pevensie, you'll lead one team, and, ah, Ms. Longstocking, would you lead the other?"

Honor led the students through several fires each, emphasizing the need to point the extinguisher at the base of the fire, and to be sure to put it out completely. Once she was satisfied they were handling the equipment okay, she then turned them loose to form teams (with the appropriate supervision, of course).

"You'll be getting your location information shortly. Pay close attention to the hatch numbers, and make sure you open the right one!"

[OOC: OCD threads up! Sorry for the reliance on Wiki...Please keep in mind that this is definitely an abbreviated course. Bel, no helping the fire! ::grin::]

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Peter started to suit up as well before realising there was no way he could get all this connected correctly by himself.

"Hey Anders, will you help me with this connection and I'll check yours?"

"Yeah, definitely." Anders unwound a cord (he had no idea where it was supposed to go) from around his wrist and headed over to help Peter. "Maybe we should've looked over all the connections before we started putting the gear on."

"What fun would that be?" Peter replied with a grin.

"Good point, good point. Wow, Samuel, where's your sense of adventure?" Anders shook his head and examined the hookups and cords on Peter's suit. "Okay, this looks easier than the hookups on my TV. Hang on a second . . . there."

"Easier when one's not trying to do it over one's shoulder, hmm?" Peter asked. He looked at Samuel's suit and pulled the different cords tight and connected the tubes. "I think we have it. I wouldn't want to race to get into these things though."

Anders did another quick checkover of Peter's suit and made sure all the connections were secure, with no loose cords dangling. He took a few experimental steps, feeling awkward and bulky. "I wouldn't want to race in these things, either," he agreed, "but I think we're good to go."

"I suppose we'll know if we aren't when we start smoking," Peter said, doing a second check of Anders' suit as well. "But everything looks like the documentation says it should."

Anders wished he'd done a second reading of the files on his minicomp before he put it away, because there was no way he was getting it back out of his pocket now. "Let's go fight some fires, then."

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