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FDIC East 2004 H.O.T. Classes/Evolutions
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Bus loading starts promptly at 6:30 am Monday and Tuesday in the main lobby by the parking garage at the Atlantic City Convention Center. Please be sure to pick up your badge at registration before you board the bus.
If you need any assistance, please stop by the registration area outside Hall C on the third floor of the Atlantic City Convention Center when you get to the show.
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4-HOUR EVOLUTIONS Monday and Tuesday, 10/25 and 10/26 - 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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VEHICLE EXTRICATION
Students will use a variety of electric, pneumatic, and hydraulic hand tools to complete the objectives of accessing the interior and victims of motor vehicle accidents and providing openings for egress of victims and entry of additional rescuers.
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TRUCK COMPANY OPERATIONS: FORCIBLE ENTRY
Students will use a variety of tools and procedures as they rotate through forcible entry stations that simulate challenging forcible situations
encountered by today's fire department.
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TRUCK COMPANY OPERATIONS: GROUND LADDERS
Some call it the "forgotten art." This course is designed to increase skills in transporting, raising, and climbing ladders in one- and two-member evolutions.
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TRUCK COMPANY OPERATIONS: SEARCH PROCEDURES
Students will employee a variety of techniques to conduct a primary search in a challenging private-dwelling environment. This class includes primary search size-up, search organization, search communications, search methods (with the handline and without), access and egress considerations, victim location and removal techniques, and mask confidence techniques.
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TRUCK COMPANY OPERATIONS: VENTILATION-Mon. AM, Mon. PM, Tues. PM, SOLD OUT
This evolution will cover a variety of ventilation techniques, designed specifically for firefighters and fire officers of truck companies or companies that could be detailed to traditional truck company duties. Both hand and power tools will be put to good use, emphasizing the essentials, including ventilation size-up.
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THERMAL IMAGING FOR THE FIRE SERVICE-Tues. PM, SOLD OUT
Using a real smoke environment in acquired structures, students will learn how to correctly apply this technology to fire situations. Topics will include technology, applications, tactics, image interpretation, and - most of all - firefighter safety.
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8-HOUR EVOLUTIONS Monday and Tuesday, 10/25 and 10/26 - 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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ENGINE COMPANY OPERATIONS
This class rotates students through critical functions using the tools of the modern engine company. Stations include alternative water supply, handline flows, stretching and advancing handlines, and standpipe operations. The class gives you not just the "how" but the "why," so you can enhance your fire attack.
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RAPID INTERVENTION TEAM COMBAT DRILL
This program will train and evaluate RIT members under realistic conditions. Students will be assembled into teams and deployed to challenging downed-firefighter rescue operations. Team-oriented tactics/procedures and safety are stressed.
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FIREFIGHTER SAFETY AND SURVIVAL
Using elements of nationally acclaimed self-rescue and team-rescue programs, students will learn to enhance survivability in hazardous or life-threatening conditions in burning buildings using basic fireground tools and skills.
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TEAM SEARCH
This class addresses safe operations for large-area searches. Working in a large-area, low-visibility environment, participants will practice search line deployment, quick egress methods, tag line deployment, victim location methods, search communications, search organization, and more.
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PROTECTING THE PROTECTORS: FIRST RESPONDER WMD RESPONSE
The emergence of post-terrorism response as part and parcel of the fire service's mission has raised the question as to how best to train, equip, and protect first responding personnel upon their arrival at an incident involving chemical, biological, or radiological materials. Central to the fire serviceÕs concern must be affording firefighters encapsulating protection so that they may safely, effectively, and most importantly confidently operate in potentially deadly atmospheric environments for the period of time it may take to remove citizens and even their fellow firefighters to safety.
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This day-long course deals with an emerging concept involving the use of fully encapsulating Level A protective ensembles heretofore associated with hazardous materials response as a first responder tool for victim rescue during initial post-terrorism response operations. Facilitation includes the use of haz-mat / WMD recognition and identification skills, use of and importance of air monitoring relating to agent identification and selection of PPE, making the decision to rescue versus recover victims, and both emergency and full gross decontamination procedures as might be pplicable in these situations. Practical application will include actual donning of encapsulating PPE, entry into a potentially hazardous environment, victim stabilization and packaging, and removal from the hazard area for decontamination.
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Based on the WMD training course developed by the International Association of Fire Fighters, it is presented by the Professional Firefighters Association of New Jersey.
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16-HOUR EVOLUTIONS Monday-Tuesday, 10/25-26 - 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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CONDUCTING NFPA 1403-COMPLIANT LIVE FIRE ATTACK- CANCELLED
FDIC is committed to bringing you the methodology to deliver safer acquired-structure live burn training for your fire department. The first day of this two-day class will focus on the standards and preparation for conducting NFPA-compliant live fire training evolutions. On the second day, students will actually conduct and perform the training evolution, based on the plans from the previous day.
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STRUCTURAL ROPE RESCUE
This course will address all system-specific requirements of the Rope Rescue-Operations Level section of NFPA 1670 (technical rescue standard). Individuals will be grouped together as teams and oriented to elements such as knots, belay systems, lowering systems, rope/pulley mechanical advantage, low-angle litter raising systems, patient packaging, and ascending and descending fixed ropes.
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AXIOMS OF LEADERSHIP : TEAM BUILDING
This program, called a "discovery of leadership" by some who've participated in it, is designed for firefighters who want to improve leadership abilities and team performance. It stresses the development of core values, character, trust, and relationships as critical to being great leaders. These critical factors are reinforced through challenging team-building and problem-solving evolutions. A unique experience.
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STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE RESCUE
Students learn and fine-tune skills necessary to achieve safe and effective void search of collapsed wood-frame buildings, or buildings of ordinary construction, using a team approach. Working within an actual collapse environment, students practice hazards assessments, wood-cutting techniques for shoring, shoring procedures and placement, mechanical and lifting tool use, team communications, search techniques, debris removal, and victim removal techniques.
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IMPORTANT NOTES FOR ALL H.O.T. EVOLUTION ATTENDEES
- 1. Students must bring their own bunker gear/rescue gear. FDIC will not supply it.
- Bunker gear ensemble includes NFPA-compliant turnout coat and pants, helmet, firefighting boots, and gloves.
- Technical rescue gear ensemble includes jumpsuit, compliant helmet,steel-toed boots, compliant eye shields, and gloves.
- Bunker gear is required for all evolutions except Structural Rope Rescue and Structural Collapse Rescue. For these, technical rescue gear as listed above is appropriate.
- Normal civilian work clothes are acceptable for Axioms of Leadership course.
- FDIC will supply SCBA for students as required. FDIC will supply hoods for Flashover Simulator and Conducting NFPA 1403-Compliant Live Fire Attack.
- Remember to submit Liability Waiver signed by chief of department. Those without signed Liability Waiver cannot participate.
- 900 firefighters will participate in evolutions on each of the H.O.T. days. Naturally, the logistical requirements are large. As a courtesy to your fellow brothers and sisters and to FDIC, we must insist that you arrive on time both Monday and Tuesday mornings. In the past, we have lost precious training time because latecomers delayed morning bus loading operations. Please arrive at the Convention Center early and ready to go.
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8-HOUR WORKSHOPS Monday, 10/25 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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DEVELOPING FIREGROUND DECISION-MAKING SKILLS
Chief Robert Halton, Coppell (TX) Fire Department and Deputy Chief (Ret.) Ted Nee, Albuquerque (NM) Fire Department
Training company officers and aspiring officers to make critical decisions on the fireground is one of the most challenging tasks facing the fire service. Incident simulation and tactical decision-making exercises are used in this class to teach and refine the rapid decision-making skills needed to properly manage your emergencies.
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FIREGROUND TACTICS
Captain Bill Gustin, Miami-Dade (FL) Fire Rescue
Management styles and technologies change, but the firefighting basics - protect life, confine the fire, and extinguish the fire - are constant. This intensive course on strategy and tactics is designed to keep you mentally sharp for all your fireground operations. It uses case studies and hypothetical situations to fine-tune your focus on the art of structure firefighting.
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WORKING FROM HEIGHTS - ON THE RUN
David Ross, Chief of Health and Safety, Toronto Fire Services;
Peter J. McBride, Safety Officer, Ottawa Fire Services; Gerald A. Tracy, Battalion Chief, FDNY
This new creative program will invigorate audience competence with an exhibition of how we can all "raise the bar" to become our personnel best in all aspects of this profession within the fire service. Told through an analogy of reporting for duty the audience will participate (interact) in a tour of duty at the fire house/hall. This full day program will examine the roles and responsibilities of the firefighter, line officer to that of the Incident Commander with the use of media, scenarios, and group discussion. They will report for duty, respond to alarms, and experience the sensation of arriving at fires and emergencies, positioning and setting up apparatus, establishing a water supply, performing size up, operations, taking up and returning back to the fire house/hall. Every aspect of our vocation will be touched upon.
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THE ANATOMY OF DESTRUCTION: BURNING AND BOMBING BUILDINGS
Hollice Stone, P.E., Hilman Consulting Engineers, Inc., California US&R Task Force 3; and Captain John Flynn, P.E., Fire Department of New York
When a building is on fire or has been affected by an explosion, how will it react to these destructive forces? This class will discuss the engineering principles specific to buildings under abnormal conditions and challenge you to identify conditions that will exist from these forces.
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8-HOUR WORKSHOPS Tuesday, 10/26 - 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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DEVELOPING FIREGROUND DECISION-MAKING SKILLS
Chief Robert Halton, Coppell (TX) Fire Department and Deputy Chief (Ret.) Ted Nee, Albuquerque (NM) Fire Department
Training company officers and aspiring officers to make critical decisions on the fireground is one of the most challenging tasks facing the fire service. Incident simulation and tactical decision-making exercises are used in this class to teach and refine the rapid decision-making skills needed to properly manage your emergencies.
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FIREGROUND TACTICS
Battalion Chief John Norman, Fire Department of New York
Management styles and technologies change, but the firefighting basicsÑprotect life, confine the fire, and extinguish the fireÑare constant. This intensive course on strategy and tactics is designed to keep you mentally sharp for all your fireground operations. It uses case studies and hypothetical situations to fine-tune your focus on the art of structure firefighting.
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WORKING FROM HEIGHTS - ON THE RUN
David Ross, Chief of Health and Safety, Toronto Fire Services;
Peter J. McBride, Safety Officer, Ottawa Fire Services; Gerald A. Tracy, Battalion Chief, FDNY
This new creative program will invigorate audience competence with an exhibition of how we can all "raise the bar" to become our personnel best in all aspects of this profession within the fire service. Told through an analogy of reporting for duty the audience will participate (interact) in a tour of duty at the fire house/hall. This full day program will examine the roles and responsibilities of the firefighter, line officer to that of the Incident Commander with the use of media, scenarios, and group discussion. They will report for duty, respond to alarms, and experience the sensation of arriving at fires and emergencies, positioning and setting up apparatus, establishing a water supply, performing size up, operations, taking up and returning back to the fire house/hall. Every aspect of our vocation will be touched upon.
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BUILDING CONSTRUCTION PRINCIPLES FOR FIREFIGHTING
Fire Marshal Paul Dansbach, Rutherford (NJ) Fire Department
"There are no new lessons to be learned." This commonly used statement concerning building construction couldn't be further from the truth. This course will explore in detail the five basic types of building construction and the how new methods of construction have affected firefighting operations.
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APPARATUS PURCHASING
Battalion Chief (Ret.) William Peters, Jersey City (NJ) Fire Department
This is the complete soup-to-nuts approach to purchasing fire apparatus. This class will guide you through each step of the apparatus purchasing process in an organized way. It helps you recognize important features and design as well as applying the NFPA standards. Justification, organization, documentations, specification, bid evaluation, factory inspections, delivery, maintenance, and warranty will be covered.
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MANAGING AND PRESERVING THE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Chief John Buckman, German Township (IN) Volunteer Fire Department
The future of the volunteer fire service depends on local-level leaders. Approximately 95% of our time is spent dealing with people, but 95% of our training is geared toward strategy and tactics of emergency operations. Most of our problems stem from people problems, and yet we donÕt train our leaders how to manage people. Develop skills necessary to motivate volunteers and build a stronger team commitment, and examine the trends that are shaping our future.
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16-HOUR WORKSHOPS Monday-Tuesday, 10/25-26 - 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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TRAINING OFFICER DEVELOPMENT
While courses abound on basic instructor skills, few are available to provide the new training officer with the skills and knowledge needed to "hit the ground running" in the position. Learn the basics to determine training needs of a fire department, including compliance with federal mandates and NFPA standards. Develop knowledge and skills necessary to plan, develop, and schedule a training program.
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LARGE-SCALE INCIDENT MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS
Captain James Ellson (Ret.), Fire Department of New York; and Jack Murphy, Leonia (NJ) Fire Marshal (Ret.)
In just the past two years, the book has been rewritten, and what was thought to be large scale has been eclipsed. Too often we are guilty of not thinking "outside the box." Today's box is expanding, and this interactive course will give you tools to expand your fire service capacities within a unified command structure for big operations.
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INCIDENT SAFETY OFFICER TRAINING
Fire departments around North America and the world have found that an incident safety officer (ISO) is vital to the safe and successful mitigation of an incident. Often, the incident commander will delegate the position of ISO during significant incidents. In other cases, a predesignated ISO responds to the scene to assume this important role. Regardless of the method chosen to establish an ISO, this course will provide the means for developing individuals so necessary if the ISO is to be effective.
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COMMAND OFFICERS BOOT CAMP
Deputy Chief James Murtagh (Ret.), Fire Department of New York; Deputy Chief John "Skip" Coleman, Toledo (OH) Department of Fire and Rescue; Chief Jeff Meston, Novato (CA) Fire Department; Battalion Chief Billy Goldfeder, Loveland-Symmes (OH) Fire Department
This two-day intensive course will investigate key aspects of the roles of chief officers in the "middle of the management food chain." The objective is to broaden in scope and deepen the level of knowledge and thinking of chief officers - as well as chief-officers-to-be - at the middle level of the organization. By working with experienced chief officers from significantly different parts of the firefighting community, and by using interactive yet structured programs, the participant will be guided through many of the roles, responsibilities, tasks, and problems confronting the battalion chief.
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POWERPOINT(r) PRESENTATION DEVELOPMENT
This workshop helps participants develop their proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint(r) and adapt their existing classroom skills to make maximum use of presentation technology. This is not a class for beginners, all participants will be taken a step above their basic skills. All students MUST come with their own notebook computer and have basic skills in Microsoft Powerpoint such as opening/closing saving presentation files, maximizing/minimizing windows, editing text, changing fonts and applying templates.
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Flagship Media Sponsors
Owned and Produced by:
FDIC EAST presents an exclusive screening.
October 29, 2004 at 5:30 pm
AC Convention Center
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