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Emergency Vehicle Response Safety
David Bradley, B.S., NREMT-P
VFIS
This is a four hour course!

Every year over 100 emergency service personnel are killed in the line of duty. A significant number of these deaths occur responding and returning from incidents. This seminar addresses safety concerns for emergency service personnel when operating emergency vehicles. Issues discussed include: driver selection, driving record evaluation, safe vehicle operations, intersections, roll-over prevention, personal vehicle operations, and liability issues. Real life case studies are used. This program assists emergency vehicle operators in making good driving decisions and provides practical safety guidelines that can be incorporated into daily vehicle operations.

Wildland Search and Rescue
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)
Chad Richardson
Class is limited to 30 participants!
This is an eight hour course!
Please bring your own turnout gear!
You must be 18 or older to participate in this course!

This course was developed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the basic Wildland Search Skills course teaches the most basic skills needed to conduct search in the wildland environment. Topics covered in this course include, basic search organization (Incident Command System), communications, search techniques, attitude and safety. This course concludes with a field exercise to practice the 3 search techniques (grid search) discussed in the classroom. Graduates of this course will receive a “green card ” which will identify them as having successfully completed this course. This course is also a prerequisite to other more advanced search courses offered by the New York State Department of Conservation.

Trench Awareness Level
NYS Office of Fire Prevention & Control
This is an eight hour course!
TBD

This course will discuss problems that can and do occur in trench rescue incidents. The safety techniques, shoring techniques, proper procedures, team operations, and hazard assessments will all be discussed and explained in depth..

Fire Behavior & Arson Awareness
NYS Office of Fire Prevention & Control
This is a twelve hour course!
TBD

This program trains firefighters to understand normal and predicted fire behavior. It enables students to understand the basic concepts of fire chemistry and the normal growth of fires and to develop and apply observational skills that may be critical to a fire investigation. Using standard accepted procedures, students apply techniques fundamental to preserving the fire scene for further cause determination.

Mayday-surviving when bad things happen
This is an eight hour course! Please bring your own turnout gear, scba
and 2 bottles!
Classroom is unlimited, but hands on is limited to 30, prerequisite of FF1
and SCBA qualified.
Jerry Paris

Trapped in a basement, floor, ceiling or wall collapse, or entanglement in wires are things
that happen and kill firefighters. You must react immediately and instinctively using
your muscle memory.The “Calling the Mayday ” training will increase your chances of
survival. This is a two part program consisting of both lecture and hands on training. Students that participate in the 3 hour hands on training will negotiate 6 different entrapment evolutions.

Water Rescue Awareness Level
NYS Office of Fire Prevention & Control
This is a four hour course!
TBD

This course provides an overview of water safety and rescue issues including: hazard assessment, responder safety, risk management, hypothermia, near-drowning, basic water search techniques, basic shore-based rescue techniques, incident management issues, and water rescue equipment.

Enhanced Grant Writing Skills Seminar
NYS Office of Fire Prevention & Control

In cooperation with the North American Fire Training Directors (NAFTD) and the Assistance to Firefighter Grant Program (AFG)

A step by step program that will explain and show you how to fill out the AFG grant application. They will explain the important elements that need to be included in the narrative and how to interpret the guidance document that the AFG program releases when the grant period is open. This seminar is a great opportunity to ask questions and gain insight into the AFG program which may give you a better chance at being successful in your attempt to receive federal grant money..

Vehicle Fires
This is a four hour course! Please bring your own turnout gear!
Classroom is unlimited, but hands-on is limited to 30, prerequisite of FF1
and SCBA qualified.
Brendan Dunn and Robert Steven, UFD

With the increasing frequency of vehicle fires throughout the nation, and the ever increasing hazards associated with these fires, firefighters need to understand the appropriate tactics for safe operations at vehicle fires. This program covers all the newly emerging technologies, sound tactics for handling these fires, and safety concerns associated with vehicle fires.

Incident Safety
The Company Officers Role as Safety Officer

This is a four hour course!
Brendan Dunn and Robert Stevens, UFD

While every firefighter should act as a Safety Officer, the Company Officer plays a vital role in fireground safety. Company Officers need a clear understanding of their role as a leader in safety. This session will identify safety concerns for Company Officers and their role in leading a company safely.