2025 Conference Program

This class will equip students to better prepare for an incident involving semis, heavy vehicles, and buses by discussing vehicle design and construction and exploring how this relates to the incident ...

The Rescue Task Force concept provides a framework for law enforcement, fire, and EMS to work cohesively to provide point-of-wound care to victims of active threat events. Agencies will only be prepar ...

Students will face four technical rescue scenarios--car into a building, scaffolding rescue, fork truck/high rack shelving collapse, and heavy object entrapment--using tools and equipment found on mos ...

Incidents involving electric and hybrid vehicles are on the rise as the use of technology continues to evolve. This course is designed to prepare students for taking correct actions and avoiding commo ...

Students will have the opportunity to experience the process of conducting VES under live fire conditions; performing a correct size-up for VES; and handling special VES situations including hoarding, ...

Man vs. machinery incidents occur across the country. They may involve a person stuck in some sort of industrial machinery or be as routine as a ring stuck on a victim's finger. This class will introd ...

While the number of structure fires is decreasing, civilian fire deaths are increasing. As a fire service, we must get better at performing and supporting the search on a fireground. We give victims t ...

This class will begin with a didactic 1.5-hour lecture about safety in and around elevator equipment and an introduction on how to safely handle an elevator emergency. Participants will then be rotate ...

The class focuses on the initial actions of first-arriving crews at residential structure fires involving trapped occupants. Students will rotate through five tactical stations that include interior f ...

Join the experienced instructors at the Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI) who will deliver an intense course in the necessary skills to effectively operate as a member of a rapid intervention tea ...

This is a rope rescue course providing technical rescue personnel with hands-on experience operating on a communications tower structure. Students will learn proper techniques for climbing tower struc ...

This class will equip students to better prepare for an incident involving semis, heavy vehicles, and buses by discussing vehicle design and construction and exploring how this relates to the incident ...

Students will face four technical rescue scenarios--car into a building, scaffolding rescue, fork truck/high rack shelving collapse, and heavy object entrapment--using tools and equipment found on mos ...

Incidents involving electric and hybrid vehicles are on the rise as the use of technology continues to evolve. This course is designed to prepare students for taking correct actions and avoiding commo ...

Man vs. machinery incidents occur across the country. They may involve a person stuck in some sort of industrial machinery or be as routine as a ring stuck on a victim's finger. This class will introd ...

While the number of structure fires is decreasing, civilian fire deaths are increasing. As a fire service, we must get better at performing and supporting the search on a fireground. We give victims t ...

Students will have the opportunity to experience the process of conducting VES under live fire conditions; performing a correct size-up for VES; and handling special VES situations including hoarding, ...

The Rescue Task Force concept provides a framework for law enforcement, fire, and EMS to work cohesively to provide point-of-wound care to victims of active threat events. Agencies will only be prepar ...