Some of Our Services offered

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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 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 will shed light on one of the hottest topics in the emergency services, leadership. What is leadership? Why is it such a hot topic? How can leadership training benefit individuals and organizations? In this session, we will answer these questions and discuss functional methods to improve leadership qualities at all levels within an organization.

Objectives:

Identify positive leadership traits.

Identify methods to practice leadership regardless of rank.

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.

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. 

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 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 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). 

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. 

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.

 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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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 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. 

Objectives:

Identify data-driven search facts around fire victims.

Identify "triggers" 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.