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| Most places you need a rope awareness and a low angle class before high angle.
It depends what the area is like and where he intends to go. If it’s a one story town in the plains, probably not much call, and rope skills are highly perishable. If you aren’t training regularly in high angle, you will not be safe. If you are in the mountains and there are skyscrapers it may be a worthwhile skill.
There are so many roads to go down, in the fire service. Any one of them a firefighter could easily spend thousands of hours studying and training. You cannot do all things.
It is probably best to work for a while and make a decision where he wants to go. Upon deciding where he wants to be take a hard look at what type of calls/rescues are occurring.
Where I’m at, wildland is huge here. With a red card and a strong skill set in that area, a firefighter can go on many strike teams during the season and make good money even as a probie. Someone with swift water, hazmat, or confined spaces certs wouldn’t employ them much in my immediate area. Now wildland skills in Chicago wouldn’t be a huge asset.
Some assessment is needed to figure out where he wants to go and what he wants to do.
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Any of you full time firefighters done High angle training ?
