Presentations
Starting From Scratch
The Colors of Fire Service Leadership
Getting "Into" The Job
Many instructors know how to present material; however, some are often a little stranded when it comes to creating a class or presentation with a goal in mind. Much of this is learned over time and through experience. This session is designed to help educators define a training need, establish the objectives, goals, and/or JPR’s and put methodology into a plan to fulfil a need.
Objectives:
- Assist instructors in curriculum development.
- Link desired objectives to desired outcomes.
- Facilitate collaborative thinking.
Getting "Into" The Job
The Colors of Fire Service Leadership
Getting "Into" The Job
Getting “Into” The Job is a course in self-evaluation and motivation. What motivates fire students and firefighters? How can we use motivation to improve recruitment and retention? What could be better for us as fire service mentors than to remember where we started and who helped us along the way in order to motivate our learners? What got us “into” the job and what has motivated us to stay? At the end of the session, each and every one of us should be able to take away methods to utilize in getting their students, peers, or leadership “into” the job.
Objectives:
- Identify factors that motivate firefighters.
- Collaborate on motivation factors to aid in recruitment and retention.
- Establish methods to engage firefighters.
The Colors of Fire Service Leadership
The Colors of Fire Service Leadership
The Colors of Fire Service Leadership
In fire school, we are taught how to perform tasks. In officer class, we are taught administration. No where in early firefighter certification are we taught how to communicate or how to lead. How can leadership training benefit individuals and organizations? In this course, we will discuss functional methods to improve leadership qualities at all levels within an organization. From the probie to the Chief, we must learn to lead.
Objectives:
- Identify effective and functional leadership traits.
- Identify methods to practice leadership regardless of rank.
- Utilize examples to reinforce concepts.
Courses/Classes
Leadership Through Training, Development, and Coaching
Leadership Through Training, Development, and Coaching
Leadership Through Training, Development, and Coaching provides a passionate approach to bringing leadership techniques to an operational level. Why is there a need for both leadership and management techniques? How do we bring professional development to the masses in our organization? What does coaching have to do with leadership? Each of these questions, and more, will be addressed in this course.
Objectives:
- Identify positive leadership qualities.
- Identify positive leadership strategies.
- Begin to create a professional development plan to grow as a leader.
Incident Safety "Officer?"
Leadership Through Training, Development, and Coaching
Safety "Officer?" is a course that brings the concepts of an incident safety officer to everyone on a scene. While NFPA outlines the qualifications for an Incident Safety Officer, it is imperative for everyone at an incident scene to have a functional knowledge of safe operations. This course features a "boots on the ground" approach to safer scene operations. The foundation of the content is derived from Wisconsin Statutes, NFPA, and personal experiences on various scenes.
Objectives:
- Define the role of a safety officer.
- Identify state and federal guidelines for incident safety.
- Collaborate through incident case studies to identify safe incident action plans.
Main Street Strategy and Tactics
Nearly every community has a Main Street or main road of some sort. This class will take a look at various structures and scenarios that could be on your main road. We will break down strategies, tactics, and tasks that may aid in incident stabilization and mitigation in simplified terms. The goal is to help facilitate a confidence in your thought process to take decisive actions and assign roles. Do not be mistaken, this course is for all responders regardless of the size of your community and response organization.
Objectives:
- Review building construction features.
- Review fire behavior concepts.
- Collaborate on personnel and how they interact with a scene.
- Form Incident Action Plans (IAPs) .
Community Walk-Through
Nearly every community has a "Main Street" or a main road. Using building construction types and potential incidents in your area, we will collaborate through size-ups, strategies, and tactics that may be needed in mitigation. While there are many strategy and tactics courses offered, this one will focus on your community type and the resources you have at hand.
Objectives:
- Review building construction features.
- Review fire behavior concepts.
- Form Incident Action Plans (IAPs) with strategies and tactics for theoretical fires on "Main Street."
Confined Space Awareness
Confined Space Entry/Rescue Refresher
Confined Space Awareness is a course intended to provide a basic understanding of what a confined space is, the hazards, and what a rescuer can do to assist in a rescue without performing an entry. This course is designed to follow NFPA 1006 and 29 CFR 1910.146. and references the standards throughout the lecture and practical sessions.
Objectives:
- Identify and size-up confined spaces.
- Review the NFPA 1006 standard and 29CFR 1910.146.
- Perform basic rope handling and rigging skills to assist in a rescue scenario.
Confined Space Entry/Rescue Refresher
Confined Space Entry/Rescue Refresher
Confined Space Entry and Rescue Refresher is a course intended to take an already trained and qualified rescuer and improve on their prior knowledge, skills, and abilities. This course is designed to follow NFPA 1006 and 29 CFR 1910.146. and references the standards throughout the lecture and practical sessions. The duration of the course can be tailored to the individual entity being trained.
Objectives:
- Identify and size-up confined spaces.
- Review the NFPA 1006 standard and 29CFR 1910.146.
- Review and complete confined space permitting and incident termination procedures.
- Perform rope handling and rigging skills.
- Perform horizontal and vertical confined space entries
- (Operations-level refreshers include visible victim rescues while Technician-level refreshers include victim rescues where the victim is not readily visible).
Introduction To Ropes and Rigging
Introduction To Ropes and Rigging
This course begins with an Awareness-Level lecture and then focuses on the introduction of hands-on skills that can be used in the early stages of a technical rescue, or during specific fireground functions. This course does not certify, but it will up your game and provide you with skills to be a better firefighter.
Objectives:
- Learn and Perform current NFPA 1006 Rope Rescue Awareness JPRs.
- Understand and construct basic rope anchor systems.
- Understand and perform basic lowering via a rope.
- Understand and perform belaying (tending a safety).
- Gain an introductory knowledge on mechanical advantage and simple systems.
Vehicle and Mobility Response
Introduction To Ropes and Rigging
This course provides an overview of new vehicle technology including lithium ion battery fires, hydrogen vehicles, LPG, and CNG vehicles, and methods to approach the challenges they pose.
Organizations can choose between a lecture only, hands-on-training, or a combination of both.
Objectives:
- Review various vehicle technologies.
- Discuss Lithium Ion concerns during emergencies.
- Learn potential methods to suppress, confine, or control alternative fuels vehicle fires.
Thermal Imaging, Beyond the Handoff
Thermal Imaging, Beyond the Handoff
Many of us learned thermal imaging through "the hand off" from one firefighter to another. However, how many of us actually learned what thermal imaging is, or should be? This session will provide tips, tricks, and training on how we can use thermal imaging to improve safety and effectiveness on the fireground and beyond.
Objectives:
- Review NFPA 1408
- Review NFPA 1801
- Discuss NFPA 1700
- Understand the features of a TIC that can impact our effectiveness and safety on the fireground.
- Learn how to use and how not to use a thermal imaging camera.
- Learn the limitations of thermal imaging.
- Perform hands-on use of a thermal imager with a small live-fire demonstration.
Rapid Intevention Concepts
Thermal Imaging, Beyond the Handoff
This intent of this course is to provide a custom approach to Rapid Intervention Team/Crew concepts and training. Whether you have been through a full course, are in need of a refresher, or would like to focus on specifics, this course will be tailored to fit your needs.
Objectives:
- Review JPRs of NFPA 1407
- Collaborate on data from applicable research on Maydays, Near Misses, and LODDs.
- Perform drills and skills applicable to the NFPA 1407 tasks.
Ladder and Rope Assisted Bailout
Ladder and Rope Assisted Bailout
We all pray we never need to bailout from a fire. However, if the time ever comes, we want to know how and be able to execute the action immediately and flawlessly. This course will take into account your current department equipment as well as showcase commercially available belts, ropes, harnesses, hooks, and descenders from Fire Innovations in preparation for an event we hope never happens.
Did you know NFPA actually recommends not teaching ladder bailout? Would you like to know why?
Objectives:
- Discuss bailout prevention.
- Identify indicators for the need to escape/bailout.
- Perform a window hang.
- Perform a ladder a bail.
- Perform a rope assisted bailout.
Foundational Courses/Classes
Locks, Lines, Ladders, and Lives
Updating what you have likely learned in fire school with pearls of wisdom and different perspectives on Forcible Entry, Estimating and Stretching Lines for water delivery, Throwing Ladders for a purpose and not a state test, and Search and Rescue following the newest trends long before they make it into many textbooks.
This session is created to include all knowledge content during the hands on skills. No classroom is provided unless specifically requested.
Search and Rescue Revived
Many of us were taught Search and Rescue methods that were found in textbooks by well intended firefighters. Better data and tested methods are out there. Unfortunately, many of the current methods have not made their way into curriculum yet. We will dive in to facts that support various methods of search and victim movement to be more effective in one of our most engrained aspects of our profession, saving a life.
Objectives:
- Identify data-driven search facts around fire victims.
- Identify triggering factors to aid in selecting a search method.
- Practice and perform victim movement methods not taught in most curriculums.
- Practice putting it together based on the selected time of the course.
Building Entry Techniques
Building Entry Techniques
Building Entry Techniques
Building Entry Techniques will teach various methods to gain access to a structure. These methods will include both minimally destructive and forcible entry techniques using a growing supply of tools and props.
Objectives:
- Size-up a building in relation to entry.
- Identify safety concerns for occupants and rescuers.
- Perform tool selection in relation to the entry route and methods used.
- Perform respectful and forcible entry techniques.
Suppressing Fire
Building Entry Techniques
Building Entry Techniques
We all learn in fire school to put the wet stuff on the red stuff. Unfortunately, many of the things that could have made us more effective at applying water were not part of the curriculum, misunderstood by us, or we have forgotten. This course will help improve any firefighters ability to suppress fire through studying Access, Angles, Air, and Absorption.
Objectives:
- Size-up specifically related to fire.
- Assess the best Access to apply water.
- Utilize Angles to apply water to support further aggressive tactics.
- Comprehend good and bad Air entrainment and the air track throughout a structure.
- Identify and Interpret the need to Absorb heat during suppression.
- Utilize visual examples and props to better understand the application of water during fire suppression.
- Perform hands-on techniques with fire hose. (optional component)