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ABOUT OUR COURSES
Highway Safety for Emergency Responders
John P. Sroka
VFIS
This is an eight hour course and has a 40 person maximum participation!
Turn out gear required.
Emergency Service Organizations (ESO) respond to a wide variety of incidents involving operations on, or near a highway. These operations pose special risks to personnel performing fire, rescue and EMS functions. Every year, a significant number of emergency service personnel are killed or injured while operating on our highways. There may be a wide variety of reasons for these losses, but the point still remains: they should never happen! In many instances, an ESO responds to a “primary incident” on a highway, only to become the victim of a “secondary incident” –the nightmare in which a firefighter, EMS provider or police officer is suddenly struck and killed by traffic.
Fire Fighter Survival 01-05-0022
NYS Office of Fire Prevention & Control
S.Epps/R.Ward/S.Burritt
This is a twelve hour course and has a 30 person maximum participation!
Turn out gear required. Students will need their Chief’s Authorization Letter
to participate in this class.
This program is designed for self-rescue and rescue of trapped firefighters. Course content will enable firefighters to recognize the types of events encountered on the fire ground that contribute to firefighter disorientation and/or entrapment, to have knowledge of what is necessary to ensure their safety and that of their partners or crew members, and perform self-rescue techniques when disoriented, separated, or when needing to exit a structure in an emergency. This course requires students to perform a number of practical evolutions with self-contained breathing apparatus
(SCBA).
Aerial/Platform Ladder Placement & Operations
Lt. Wilbur, FDNY
This is a twelve hour course!
Turn out gear required.
This training will be conducted in the proper placement and operation of aerial devices. Topics covered will be the characteristics and operating features of rear mount, tractor drawn aerials, platforms and quint apparatus. Special emphasis will be made on truck company placement for various types of occupancies, rescue and life safety strategies and tactical work of quint apparatus. Finally strategies and tactics will be discussed in the operation of the proper position of aerial ladders and tower ladders and how to successfully deploy both at the scene of a fire. Students will then employ this knowledge in a series of outside hands on demonstrations. This course is a must for firefighters, fire officers, company and chief officers, drivers and engineers. Each rank will derive benefits from this training course. Participants in this class will have a new found admiration for the aerial devices that they operate. This class will cause aerial operators to maximize the use of these very expensive yet under utilized and misunderstood pieces of apparatus. With this greater understanding of aerial devices and their uses, fire ground operations will be enhanced and fire scene safety will increase.
Critical Injury Response for Loggers
Rick Lutz
This is a four hour course and has a 30 person maximum participation!
Turn out gear required.
This course is a workshop to help understand injuries that happen in the logging business, how to respond without making the situation worse, and most importantly how to recognize a dangerous situation and avoid it in the future. This workshop is designed to be done in the field at an active job site so that logging equipment normally present can be utilized and participants can gain familiarity with using it in new applications.
Street Smart Truck Ops
Dave Macaluso
This is a four hour course!
Where do u place your emergency vehicles at a fire scene? Whether your department operates with or without an aerial apparatus, this course is a terrific skill building seminar for senior firefighters or new firefighters. Placement and operations of all of your fire apparatus at a working fire or emergency will make your operations easier, if done correctly. This three hour class will begin to fill your needs at your next fire.
Thermal Imaging
Jerry Paris
This is an eight hour course!
Turn out gear required.
This course is designed to provide students with essential tools and skills needed when using the thermal imaging device. The thermal imaging device is deployed on an everyday basis in today’s fire service but yet in most cases is not being utilized to its fullest capabilities. Throughout this hands-on course the student will become familiar with the thermal imaging device and understand what they are seeing and how it can be used to help prevent possible mayday situations before they occur.
Recognizing the Dangers of Clandestine Drug Lab Operations
Teresa Stevens, Hazmat Bureau
This is a four hour course!
Illegal labs are frequently being discovered in residential dwellings, garages, basements, motel rooms, and other innocuous locations. This awareness level course will provide first responders with information that will help identify situations that may involve an illegal drug manufacturing operation. The manufacturing of drugs, such as Meth-Amphetamines, uses a wide variety of hazardous materials and poses special risks from fire and explosion. This course will provide participants with information about the special risks associated with drug manufacturing and appropriate procedures to be considered for the safety of responders.
Assisting a Down Firefighter (EMS)
Dave Macaluso
This is a four hour course!
Turn out gear required.
This course will provide our EMS members with an introductory level to the treatment of a downed firefighter. Too many times we have seen a firefighter go down with an emergency medical problem at a scene where maybe minutes or even seconds are left to treat the firefighter. This course will train the EMS the precautions of some of the gear worn by firefighters, methods to diagnose the injuries or medical problem and to swiftly address removing turnout gear and other items worn or possessed by interior and exterior firefighters. Seconds do count!
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