In November 2017, the fire service was alerted to an incident in Nashville, Tenn., that involved a firefighter recruit falling during a training session of the John Nance drill, which involves rescuing a firefighter from a sublevel situation. This drill involves many options, including lowering down a firefighter to assist in rescuing the downed firefighter.
The incident has raised many questions by firefighters and instructors regarding to how this happened. Who is at fault? What went wrong? Was the instructor negligent? Details of the incident are being kept quiet from the public as the Nashville Fire Department conducts an investigation to determine the answers to all of these and other questions.