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ABOUT OUR COURSES
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.
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