The USFS recommends extensive training with New Generation Fire Shelters, and Anchor Industries' New Generation Practice Fire Shelter is a great training tool!

The USDA Forest Service makes it abundantly clear: Seconds are critical. Confidence is essential. The US Fire Service recommends extensive and repeated hands-on training in shelter deployment as an essential element of fire shelter success. Include a complete set of these re-usable practice shelters with your department’s order as a necessary part of the system.

These non-protective practice systems are designed to closely simulate the deployment and operation of the actual fire shelter. Frequent and repeated training with these non-protective systems is intended make each firefighter comfortable with the use of the shelter and confident in his ability to deploy the system quickly and correctly in an actual emergency. All components are made to the same size and dimensions as the regular size M-2002 New Generation Fire Shelter to provide a realistic practice experience. The cost-effective New Generation Practice Fire Shelter system is made to be reused many times. The non-fire-resistant practice “shelter” is constructed from tough green plas(more...)