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ABOUT OUR COURSES
Critical Injury Response for Logging Accidents
Please bring your own turnout gear!
Rick Lutz
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.
Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Course #01
NYS Office of Fire Prevention & Control
Rich Ward
Class is limited to 30 participants!
This is a combined twelve hour course!
Please bring your own turnout gear!
You must be 18 or older to participate in this course!
This course covers specialized areas for the air transportation industry, such as aircraft familiarization, firefighting agents, rescue, ventilation and forcible entry for both civilian and military aircraft.
Alternative Fueled Vehicles and New Vehicle Technology
NYS Office of Fire Prevention & Control
Carl Houman
This course provides information about the hazards of the alternate fuels, such as methanol, compressed natural gas, and electric power, the pressures created within fuel cylinders, as well as safety information on other hazards that may be present at incidents involving an alternative fueled vehicle. The second portion of the program deals with the changing technology of the automobile. Intended to provide new information for those students who may have completed Accident Victim Extrication Training (AVET) in the past and have a need to update information about changes to the newer vehicles.
Ground Ladders-Applications on the Fire Ground
Please bring your own turnout gear!
Chief Brendan Dunn & LT Robert Stephens
This program covers placing and utilizing ladders as a fundamental skill for all firefighters. More importantly, ground ladders are a vital tool on the fire ground, especially for departments without a dedicated truck company. Properly placed ground ladders are an important element to safe fire operations, they help to make tactical operations easier, and may prove to be a life saving tool. This class is intended to provide firefighters with a quick refresher on ground ladder operations. Additionally, new and aggressive ladder skills will be presented for those that must work shorthanded, and for those with limited exposure and experience with ground ladders.
Responding to Natural Gas and Electric Emergencies
Please bring your own turnout gear!
Bob Day
National Grid Technical Training will be conducting a training seminar for responders within our service territories in New York State. This seminar is designed to enhance the basic knowledge and understanding of National Grid’s natural gas and electric systems to enable first responders to safely respond to emergency situations.
Forcible Entry at Your Fire Scene-
Make a Difference in Life or Death
FDNY Firefighter Thomas Dunn
This course deals with a firefighters ability to make a rapid forcible entry at the fire scene that may make the difference in saving a life. FDNY Firefighter Thomas Dunn, also an instructor at the FDNY Fire Academy will discuss numerous difficulties and hazards for all firefighters of forcible entries at the fire scene. Firefighter Dunn will share his experiences with you on some of the problems he has had in making forcible entries at numerous fires in New York City. Firefighter Dunn will have a “Forcibly Entry Simulator” that each class attendee will test his/her skills on with instructions of the proper methods of forcible entries.
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