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  • Track
    • Firefighting
  1. Classroom Session
    This program discusses the mission-critical incident actions for engine, truck, and first-arriving chief officers at residential fires, highlighting the must-have roles and responsibilities for each a ...
  2. Classroom Session
    Every day in America someone is rescued from the horrible fate of perishing in a fire. This program will enhance your skills by focusing on aggressive tactics and training tips while covering command ...
  3. Classroom Session
    There are many tactics for attacking structure fires. For years, the fire service has been preaching to attack from the unburned side. This isn't always the best tactic. The modern fireground is evolv ...
  4. Classroom Session
    During the past several decades, the fire service has experienced critical changes that have significantly altered the fireground. This has had a profound impact on the fire environment and our tactic ...
  5. Classroom Session
    Ventilation can make or break the outcome of a fire. Successful execution requires the comprehension of how it works and the precautions to take to ensure your actions are well coordinated and achieve ...
  6. Precon Workshop
    The fire service mission has been and always will be centered on life. Creating an environment where victim focused tactics thrive and a fire company is empowered to change the nature of a scene is im ...
  7. HOT 4 Hour
    Incidents involving electric and hybrid vehicles are on the rise as use of technology continues to evolve. This course is designed to prepare students in taking the correct actions and avoiding common ...
  8. Precon Workshop
    Energy hazard knowledge is one of the biggest training gaps for our first responders. Nothing exposed this problem more than lithium-ion battery fires, but don’t be fooled: Lithium-ion battery fires a ...
  9. Classroom Session
    This class will address the challenges and tactics for an engine company to be successful for fires in multiple dwellings. It will present proven methods to combat and simplify the multiple-dwelling f ...
  10. HOT Workshop
    Engage in a class that provides the knowledge and understanding to produce a spec-driven fire stream-focused engine for both supply and attack while effectively meeting your other local requirements. ...
  11. Classroom Session
    Commercial buildings present many challenges during a firefight, but knowing what they have to offer will make your job easier and safer. This class will review the built-in active and passive fire pr ...
  12. Classroom Session
    The old “You’ll learn that in the firehouse” mentality has set young, motivated firefighters up for failure. Sadly, not every firefighter can be a part of an organization steeped in pride, tradition, ...
  13. Classroom Session
    This class will cover discussions points on handlines, single inlet mini monitor fire streams, and master stream development/application, with these three key areas brought into sharper focus, volume, ...
  14. Classroom Session
    The fireground is an ever-changing and often chaotic place, where firefighters are forced to make a multitude of split-second decisions to effect a positive outcome. This class provides experience-bas ...
  15. HOT 4 Hour
    Access to the building much be accomplished quickly at a structure fire. Learn basic and advanced forcible entry techniques with a focus on hands-on time and repititions with forcing inward- and outwa ...
  16. HOT 4 Hour
    Access to the building much be accomplished quickly at a structure fire. Learn basic and advanced forcible entry techniques with a focus on hands-on time and repititions with forcing inward- and outwa ...
  17. HOT 4 Hour
    Access to the building much be accomplished quickly at a structure fire. Learn basic and advanced forcible entry techniques with a focus on hands-on time and repititions with forcing inward- and outwa ...
  18. Precon Workshop
    The ever-changing high-rise environment from the inception of a new building to its potential alteration/renovation project has many different activities that will actively involve the fire services a ...
  19. Precon Workshop
    Back after nearly 30 years, Glenn Corbett and Paul Dansbach revive their original building construction class and walk around at FDIC. In this workshop, attendees will begin with a classroom session r ...
  20. Classroom Session
    This class focuses on videos and photos depicting moments captured on the fireground that illustrate how firefighters’ aggressive actions can lead to danger and interfere with the tasks at hand, leavi ...
  21. HOT 8 Hour
    Many departments are facing limited staffing or relying solely on mutual aid when arriving to a working fire. Regardless of staffing levels, there are a multitude of tasks that need to be completed to ...
  22. HOT 8 Hour
    Many departments are facing limited staffing or relying solely on mutual aid when arriving to a working fire. Regardless of staffing levels, there are a multitude of tasks that need to be completed to ...
  23. HOT Workshop
    Nozzlemanship is a skill just like leadership. Both can be developed through mentorship and practice. Today’s engine companies are pressure cookers for effective tactical delivery based on sound leade ...
  24. HOT Workshop
    Nozzlemanship is a skill just like leadership. Both can be developed through mentorship and practice. Today’s engine companies are pressure cookers for effective tactical delivery based on sound leade ...
  25. HOT Workshop
    Nozzlemanship is a skill just like leadership. Both can be developed through mentorship and practice. Today’s engine companies are pressure cookers for effective tactical delivery based on sound leade ...
  26. Classroom Session
    There are two hazards that firefighters operating above a fire contend with: being caught in a flow path and floor collapse. Operating above a fire is always dangerous, but the risk is significantly g ...
  27. Classroom Session
    En route, what is going through your mind? Are you focused and bringing your A game? When you see the flames, is your heart pounding? Are you calm and controlled on the radio, or can you do better? If ...
  28. Classroom Session
    As the implementation of residential energy storage systems has steadily increased and is forecast to increase by orders of magnitude, the U.S. fire service will necessarily respond to an increasing n ...
  29. Classroom Session
    Many fire departments are plagued with a passive search culture. This class makes a case that our goal should be to complete a primary search within the first 10 minutes of arrival. We must increase a ...
  30. HOT 4 Hour
    Each year, more than 2,000 civilians are killed in structure fires. When we make life safety our number one priority, all of our actions should be about searching and supporting the primary search. We ...
  31. Classroom Session
    This class will discuss various strategies and tactics for rural water movement, from nurse tankers to the rural hitch, drafting operations, vacuum tankers, and the jet syphon. Learn the advantages an ...
  32. Classroom Session
    This class examines the various types of solar power energy systems and how to deploy realistic and usable tactics to effectively extinguish fires in buildings where such a system is in use. It will a ...
  33. Classroom Session
    Tailboard Takeaways is the fourth series of aggressive fires fought by the San Francisco Fire Department presented at FDIC. It is packed with videos, photographs, and tactical channel audio of actual ...
  34. Classroom Session
    This class offers a practical approach to the time-honored elements of scene size-up. We then move into a real-world, first-in approach to incident action planning and conclude with tips for effective ...
  35. HOT Workshop
    Every alarm deserves a professional resolve tempered with due regard. To realize this, we often must access the property and building footprint without incurring unnecessary damage. This new class foc ...
  36. HOT Workshop
    Every alarm deserves a professional resolve tempered with due regard. To realize this, we often must access the property and building footprint without incurring unnecessary damage. This new class foc ...
  37. HOT Workshop
    Every alarm deserves a professional resolve tempered with due regard. To realize this, we often must access the property and building footprint without incurring unnecessary damage. This new class foc ...
  38. Precon Workshop
    The fire service is a dynamic industry that is constantly changing on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. If we were to look back over the last five, ten, fifteen years, we would be able to se ...
  39. Classroom Session
    The instructor will share past experiences with high-rise operations that had devasting consequences and the solutions that realize feat vs. failure.  The disciplines of action and attitude to apply a ...