FDIC 2011 DELIVERY - Firefighter Personal Safety - Interior
Benchmarking - "Firefighter Situational Awareness"
It is unacceptable
that firefighters are still dying in the same unnecessary ways on the fireground. This dynamic firefighter situational awareness
driven presentation was published by FETC in Fire Engineering Magazine, February 2007 and will outline our exclusive "Interior
Benchmarking Concept" Let us show your firefighter a better way to gain situational awareness and be
pro-active with the benchmark air management concept. Teaching firefighters to use our Interior Benchmarking
Concept, along with identifying the "Go verse No - Go" decision process during air management is critical. This is FETC Advanced SCBA
training!
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2011 NEW DELIVERY - 21st Century Balloon Frame Building Construction
Has your firefighter's, fire officer's or the inspection division identified the
new hazards associated with lightweight modern building construction? Well FETC has been developing for the last 5 years what
we call "21st Century Lightweight Balloon Frame Construction" hazards. On the outside that average, modest residential
home looks to be a "routine job" but if your firefighter's become complacent with staying up to date on modern building
construction and the new fire service hazards associated with them, you are setting the stage for a LODD. FETC not only has
stayed on top of the construction but we have been involved in the industry. Let us show you how to identify the
type of building construction, understand the latest hazards long before the homeowner or the building inspector arrives
at the scene. Your personnel will be surprised on what and how things are being built in your very own community.
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2011 NEW DELIVERY - The Demise of the Aggressive Fire Service... Where
Have All The Real Firefighters Gone?
The
public calls 911 and has an expectation that the firefighers dressed in gear are going to handle every situation. But has
our new focus on a "Safety Culture" created a mixed message to the public and our firefighters? Do firefighter's
have new hazards they must deal with using a safety first mentality? This seminar will speak about the
hazards associated with having a "hard stance" safety attitude toward mitigation. This profession is dangerous,
we lose about a 100 firefighters a year on average, some of which are preventable. But has the focus of "Our
Safety First" created mixed signals amongst the troops? With modern lightweight construction, newer faster
burning furnishings and the onset of low temperature flashovers we are starting to see timidness in the field. Timidness
from Command right down to the new firefighter. The key to avoiding timidness in the eye of the public and remaining
an agressive interior fire department is understanding specific building construction(s), risk verse gain modeling, and
the use of a rescue profile concept that will align your operation to the correct incident application. But to clarify
any mixed messages to your firefighters, firefighters must be trained (ready to go to work) when called upon
and truly understand the difference between "traditional" aggressive interior fire operations for
a "specific building application" and when to ACCEPT the order of a "marginal or defensive mode"
application for the newer, modern building construction operation.
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2011 NEW DELIVERY - Thermal Insult Recognition - Do Firefighters Know When
They Are At Maximum Heat Saturation?
Has
your firefighters been trained on how to identify the limitations of their PPE? Do they understand how gear is rated and tested? With
firefighter gear becoming better every year, don't we all deserve to know? Do we know the weakest link of our PPE ensemble?
The PPE class afforded to most students does not provide enough information to truly make good decisions under fire about
heat saturation. Interior firefighters deserve to be trained on thermal insult recognition. Otherwise... what are they going
to base their decisions from? The low air alarm? Is it when they ultimately locate that small controlled training fire with
very little heat? Thing is most newly certified firefighters are so eager to be banged out on a job, does anyone feel
comfortable with their training, experience or exposure to the real world insult? When the non-controlled "real world"
fire rapidly escalates to untenable conditions, are they going to react quickly or will they just freeze? Well Chief....
Do you know what they will do?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ahhh the Dreaded Rapid Intervention Assignment - "Beyond the Textbook!"
Progressive RIT can reduce fireground injuries and fatalities long before
a Mayday is declared. Are your firefighters dreading the assignment of RIT? The fireground is no place for a complacent Rapid
Intervention Team. If they are just leaning against the bumper are they really ready? Let FETC provide them with greater knowledge
and real world experiences that can create a more positive and safer fireground! Class will review: Hi-Profile LODD's, National
Standards Review of NFPA and OSHA's 2-in 2-out, RIT Statistics, The RIT Officer's Risk Analysis, Fire Ground Operational Considerations
for Maximum Utilization of your RIT, EDS - Emergency Distress Signal monitoring, Empowering the RIT with policy,
Manpower Requirements, Roles and Responsibilities of each RIT Member, Radio Communication Modeling and RIT Command ICS. Incredible
Audio/Video and PowerPoint presentations.
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Mayday Management for Incident Command - "Strategic Considerations
Unfolded"
The mere broadcast of the term "Mayday"
has changed the lives of many good fireground commanders forever! Have you prepared your Incident Commanders for battle or
are they going to shoot from the hip? This FETC program will shed some dramatic light on the complexity of "Managing
a Mayday". We will review the leading causes of the Mayday, RIT Operations Timetable and Statistics, Fireground
Discipline, Risk vs. Gain, Communications - Analyze Audio from recent missed Mayday Calls, Real Video Footage of Near-Misses
of LODD, Command and Operational Templates for better Mayday Management, Do you have even have enough manpower for a Mayday?
Learn how to manage your own EDS- Emergency Distress Signal from the scene and not dispatch. Front load your RIT Assignment
and Command Teams using "CRM" (Crew Resource Management) for a more powerfully managed fireground!
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The Courage to be Safe - 16 Life Safety Initiatives - "National
Fallen Firefighters Foundation Program"
FETC
Instructor Greenwood was awarded as one of the first of 15 Challenge Coins Recipients in the US from the NFFF for aggressively
delivering this NFFF program. This provocative and moving presentation is designed to change
the culture of accepting the loss of firefighters as normal consequences. Building on the untold story of line of death survivors,
it will reveal how family members live with the consequences of a firefighter death and provides a focus on the need for firefighters
and fire officers to change our fundamental attitudes and behaviors in order to prevent, PREVENTABLE line of duty
deaths. The 16 Life Safety Initiatives will be covered so Everyone Goes Home.
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Coordinating Aggressive Fireground Operations - "With
a Safety Culture Mindset"
Fireground Management has never been more critical.
We are placing good men and women with good intentions into some very bad or dangerous situations. Functioning in a traditional
fire command structure is not affording an equally matched command staff. How can we mange the "traditional"
interior extinguishment operation while affording the department with a greater margin of safety? FETC has a unique program
with a new approach to fireground command and control. We will explain the process of implementing CRM - Crew Resource
Management model for greater oversight which has been endorsed by (IAFC) International Association of Fire
Chief's.
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Engine
Company Operations - "Stretching the First Critical Line"
Engine company operations are extremely critical but do we really
prepare our firefighters to be in the hot seat? Multi-Step Incident Action Planning on how to safely initiate an effective
interior fire attack including; Building size-up, Identifying Hazards, Choosing a Strategic Plan (offensive / marginal
/ defensive) Fire Stream Selection (GPM vs. BTU) Deploying the Proper Hose Line for maximum effectiveness on the fire,
speed deployment considerations, progressive hose line handling thats not in the textbook, and much more.
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Ladder Company Operations - "Vent Enter Search" and FETC Exclusive "The
Quick Set"
How
can we get all the important ladder company functions done in a timely fashion? This class will provide firefighters
with an "outside the box" mentality when your responding manpower is minimal. Reviewing: Proper Apparatus
Placement, Training your members with Minimum Company Standards for Ladder Operations; Timeline/Techniques for Vertical
vs. Horizontal Ventilation, S & R considerations using Vent-Enter-Search for rapid searches above the fire.
Can your truck company rescue a civilian victim from a third floor window within 120 seconds of arrival? Using our FETC
exclusive system called "The Quick Set" Truck Company Training along with minimum company standards, your crew
can make that grab at the next fire!
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TIC - Thermal Imager Training - Do we really understand how this thing works?
Recently
purchase a TIC? Does your personnel truly understand what they are seeing in that image? The thermal imager has empowered
many fire departments to see once again but have your personnel been trained to operate it safely? FETC will review size-ups,
search techniques, firefighters vs. fire officer use of the TIC, operational considerations for lead assisted searches. When
the camera fails, will your firefighters know how to overcome the complexity of being blind again? Training that will keep
them alive!
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