Understanding and Fighting Basement Fires Hands-on Training: Quincy, MA November 4, 2021

Hosted by: Boston Fire Department

Class location:
1 Moon Island Road
Quincy, MA 02171

Class overview: 8-hours hands-on-training

• Fire Dynamics Lab
• Basement Fire Dollhouse
• Basement Fire Attack with Limited Access
• Water Mapping
• Size-up and Thermal Imaging
• Live Basement Fire Evolutions

Funded by AFG Fire Prevention and Safety Grants

LIMITED TO 2 INSTRUCTORS PER DEPARTMENT

PRE-REQUISITE: FIRE INSTRUCTOR I

*PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS A $50 SEAT RESERVATION FEE THAT WILL BE REFUNDED ONCE ATTENDANCE IS VERIFIED. ISFSI RESERVES THE RIGHT TO DONATE THE FEE TO CHARITY IF STUDENT DOES NOT ATTEND THE COURSE. 

Understanding and Fighting Basement Fires Hands-on Training: Indianapolis, IN: October 26, 2021

Hosted by: Indianapolis Fire Department

Class location: 400 N High School Road, Indianapolis, IN 46214

Class overview: 8-hours hands-on-training

• Fire Dynamics Lab
• Basement Fire Dollhouse
• Basement Fire Attack with Limited Access
• Water Mapping
• Size-up and Thermal Imaging
• Live Basement Fire Evolutions

Funded by AFG Fire Prevention and Safety Grants

LIMITED TO 2 INSTRUCTORS PER DEPARTMENT

PRE-REQUISITE: FIRE INSTRUCTOR I

*PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS A $50 SEAT RESERVATION FEE THAT WILL BE REFUNDED ONCE ATTENDANCE IS VERIFIED. ISFSI RESERVES THE RIGHT TO DONATE THE FEE TO CHARITY IF STUDENT DOES NOT ATTEND THE COURSE. 

Understanding and Fighting Basement Fires Hands-on Training: Livonia, MI October 20, 2021

Hosted by: Livonia Fire & Rescue, Northville Township Fire Department, Schoolscraft College Regional Training

Class location:
Schoolscraft College Regional Training 

31777 Industrial Road

Livonia, MI 48150

Class overview: 8-hours hands-on-training

• Fire Dynamics Lab
• Basement Fire Dollhouse
• Basement Fire Attack with Limited Access
• Water Mapping
• Size-up and Thermal Imaging
• Live Basement Fire Evolutions

Funded by AFG Fire Prevention and Safety Grants

LIMITED TO 2 INSTRUCTORS PER DEPARTMENT

PRE-REQUISITE: FIRE INSTRUCTOR I

*PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS A $50 SEAT RESERVATION FEE THAT WILL BE REFUNDED ONCE ATTENDANCE IS VERIFIED. ISFSI RESERVES THE RIGHT TO DONATE THE FEE TO CHARITY IF STUDENT DOES NOT ATTEND THE COURSE. 

Curating and Creating Content for Your Learning Management System Course Shell

As part of a series of webinars for the fire service instructor, this webcast session will discuss best practices for enhancing your learning management system (LMS) course shell to better enhance student learning.  In particular, the session will discuss your role as both a curator and creator of content to assist in satisfying course/program learning objectives. The facilitator will also discuss web resources for the curator, and tools to assist with content creation.  Finally, the session will discuss best practices and mandates surrounding content placement on a LMS course shell that are common in the academic setting.

Learning Objectives:

1. What is the role of the course shell curator?
2. What is the role of the course shell content creator?
3. Discuss resources for curating course/program content.
4. Identify technology resources to assist in creating course content.
5. Describe best practices and mandates surrounding curating/creating content for use in the academic setting

Continuing Education Hours: 1.5

Instructor: 

Demond Simmons is a member of the Oakland (CA) Fire Department. He is currently on detail as the department’s special operations chief.  He is a proud member of several fire service organizations including ISFSI, IAFC, IFSTA, and the IABPFF.  His motto is, continue to be a student of the profession.

Understanding and Fighting Basement Fires Hands-on Training: Reynoldsburg, OH October 5, 2021

Hosted by: Ohio Fire Academy

Class location: 8895 East Main Street, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068

Class overview: 8-hours hands-on-training

• Fire Dynamics Lab
• Basement Fire Dollhouse
• Basement Fire Attack with Limited Access
• Water Mapping
• Size-up and Thermal Imaging
• Live Basement Fire Evolutions

Funded by AFG Fire Prevention and Safety Grants

LIMITED TO 2 INSTRUCTORS PER DEPARTMENT

PRE-REQUISITE: FIRE INSTRUCTOR I

*PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS A $50 SEAT RESERVATION FEE THAT WILL BE REFUNDED ONCE ATTENDANCE IS VERIFIED. ISFSI RESERVES THE RIGHT TO DONATE THE FEE TO CHARITY IF STUDENT DOES NOT ATTEND THE COURSE. 

The ISFSI Instruct-o-Gram Live webinar series brings a recently published Instruct-o-Gram alive with the author presenting key topics on implementing the material in your department. This month we are discussing the essential elements needed to administer a physical and tactical set of proficiencies expected of a previously trained driver/operator at a fire incident. 

The driver/operator plays a critical role upon arriving at an incident to establish or support a successful fire attack operation. The operation and effectiveness of the apparatus will often be in proportion to the skills and abilities of the operator. The apparatus and operator are the anchor and support system to the Firefighters in the hot zone. 

The driver/operator should be on-scene expert concerning the location, use, and functions of the tools and equipment on the apparatus. To a large degree, the fire apparatus is essentially a large "toolbox", who is responsible for its contents. 

During this webinar, we will discuss:

• Training in context proficiencies and why they are beneficial
• The various apparatus proficiencies that may be tested
• The benefits of anticipating the needs of attack crews, and how the driver/operator can assist
• The benefits of being in an advantageous position to be an 'extra set of eyes' to perform continuous size-up and situational awareness

Instructor: 

Jeff Betz is a Firefighter at the City of Adrian and Madison Township Fire Departments. He is a retired career Lieutenant and Training Officer, as well as a retired On-call Assistant Chief and Training Officer at each department respectively.

The ISFSI Instruct-o-Gram Live webinar series brings a recently published Instruct-o-Gram alive with the author presenting key topics on implementing the material in your department. This month we are discussing the essential elements needed to facilitate training & education for the company officer who will be tasked with command and control at structure fire incidents.

A structure fire does not discriminate based on who is managing the incident—the fire is going to behave in a manner whether a company officer or chief officer is commanding the incident.  Successfully management an incident is a combination of simulation training, case study review, education, and real-world experience.

This IOG webinar will provide the fire service instructor with the essential elements needed to facilitate training & education for the company officer who will be tasked with command & control at structure fire incidents.  Specific topic areas will include the following:

• The importance of fireground command
• Roles and responsibilities of the incident commander
• Routine incident command deficiencies at the company officer level
• The NIOSH “5”
• How to build simulation slides that will enhance recognition primed decision making

Incident management is not designed to extinguish fires, conduct searches, and perform ventilation.  It is designed to manage firefighters who are tasked with assignments that satisfy incident priorities.  As a legendary fire chief once stated, “the first five minutes determine the next five hours.”

Instructor: 

Demond Simmons is a member of the Oakland (CA) Fire Department. He is currently on detail as the department’s special operations chief.  He is a proud member of several fire service organizations including ISFSI, IAFC, IFSTA, and the IABPFF.  His motto is, continue to be a student of the profession.

Performance Under Pressure: Building a Reality-Based Training Program

Athletes, Military and Law Enforcement have been using Reality Based Training to train for optimal human performance for decades. The fire service is catching up by utilizing a step-by-step methodology to achieve peak performance during emergency operations.  The methods shared are compiled by years of research from sport psychology, to firefighting, to adventure athletic performance. This lecture provides the attendees with our model in conducting Reality Based Training to enhance game speed, tempo on the fireground and ways to control the environment on the emergency scene. We will discuss “flow” and how that will help firefighters dominate the fireground.

Learning Objectives:

• The Fear response and how it relates to freighting
• Optimal Performance Zone and “Flow”
• Hicks Law
• Pavlovian Theory
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming
• Reality Based Training Format
•  Sports Psychology as it relates to firefighting

Continuing Education Hours: 2

Instructor: 

Rob Blasetti is currently a Lieutenant assigned to the Field Training branch of the Fire Academy at a large metro fire department in Northern Virginia and a member of VA-TF1/USA-1 Urban Search and Rescue Team. Before moving to Virginia, Rob worked for the City of Cape Coral Fire Department in Florida, where he held the rank of Battalion Chief of Operations with extra responsibilities of Special Operations. Since 2006, Rob has been sharing with firefighters around the country, the effects environmental and mechanical stress has on decision making on the fire ground. Rob has taught at FDIC, Orlando Fire Conference, Ft. Lauderdale Fire Expo. Blasetti is a presenter for the National Olympic Committee for sports psychology and Athena Institute for education and research Conference on Psychology.

The ISFSI Instruct-o-Gram Live webinar series brings a recently published Instruct-o-Gram alive with the author presenting key topics on implementing the material in your department. This month we are discussing how to create and facilitate an officer development program for your department.

Our primary mission in the fire service is to be there for THEM. The weight of our responsibilities in the fire service seems to be getting heavier by the month, and while departments continue to rely on their company officers to effectively lead in the firehouse and the fire ground, many times succession planning and/or development of future officers before promotion is minimal at best. Even after promotion training is heavily focused on company or firefighter performance and typically includes very little continuing education for company officer's and above. The Fire Chief recognizes this and tasks you as the departments chief of training and/or lead instructor to develop and deliver a company officer academy/development program to better prepare future leaders for their positions. Now what? This webinar will expand upon the July IOG.

Topics to be covered include: 

- Performing a needs assessment/SWOT analysis of current training opportunities and needs for a new program.
- Instructor selection/considerations
- Defining standards and best practices to anchor your training in.
- Identifying partnership and collaboration opportunities.
- Developing curriculum 
- Developing the budget
- Developing performance criteria AND
- Evaluating the programs effectiveness 

Instructor:

Jacob McAfee

Jacob McAfee, EFO, CFO, CTO, MIFireE is the Deputy Fire Chief for the North Central Fire Protection District and past Fresno City College Fire Academy Director. Jacob is a former DoD Fire Chief and has 20 years of fire service experience. In that time, he has worked in four different states and held a chief officer position in every fire service division. Chief McAfee is a registered instructor for the California State Fire Marshal’s Office and the California Specialized Training Institute. Chief McAfee completed National Fire Academy Executive Fire Officer Program (EFOP), and holds Chief Fire Officer (CFO) and Chief Training Officer (CTO) credentials from the Center for Public Safety Excellence (CPSE). Additionally, he serves the CPSE as a curricula SME and instructor for Nurturing Fire Service Leaders Through Mentoring, CFAI peer team accreditation assessor, and a CA volunteer advocate and instructor for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. Chief McAfee holds Masters Degrees in Occupational Safety and Health and Emergency Management while currently pursuing his PhD in Emergency Management with Capella University.

Developing & Delivering Effective Thermal Imaging Training

This presentation will provide the necessary knowledge and skills that Instructors need to develop and deliver an effective thermal imaging training program. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Review NFPA Standards; 1801 - TIC Technology and 1408 - TIC Training
• Discuss Thermal Imaging technology, features, and concepts
• Identify key components of an effective thermal imaging training program
• Identify training resources for use in the TIC training program
• Review key measures to determine the success of a TIC training program

Continuing Education Hours: 3

Instructors: 

Mike Richardson

Mike is a 35-year veteran of the Military and Fire Service, and is currently the Division Chief of Training & Safety for the St Matthews FD in Louisville, KY. He is a graduate of the Eastern KY University Fire Science and Loss Prevention & Safety Programs. Chief Richardson has focused the past 20 years of his career on being an instructor which has allowed him to work with first responders in 43 States and 8 Countries. He has been involved with the Fire Service at a national level through, instructing at national conferences such as FDIC and Fire-Rescue International, authoring over 30 articles in publications such as Fire Engineering and Firehouse, and serving on the Board of Directors for the Fire Dept Safety Officers Assoc and the International Society of Fire Service Instructors. Chief Richardson has also served on the NFPA Electronic Safety Equipment and Fire Service Training Committees.