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ONE DAY CLASSES |

Emergency Vehicle Operator: Fire You’re in the Right Seat . . . Fire Investigation
(Classroom Only - No Driving) Now What? Fundamentals for Firefighters
As a fire apparatus operator, both your With today’s staffing limitations, young This course will examine the fundamentals
crew and the general public rely on your officers often lack the experience, and may of basic fire investigation for responding
ability to remain calm and focused while not have an on-scene chief officer to make firefighters and fire officers. Participants
maneuvering safely through traffic. Your critical fireground decisions. This course will discuss the information and
firefighting team counts on you to get teaches the process of how to apply observations that need to be collected
them to the fireground to perform their information gathered during response and to establish the basis for a thorough fire
function, and the general public relies on size-up to make initial strategy decision investigation. The State Fire Marshal’s
you to operate as a professional - with due based upon fundamental risk analysis response policy and areas of coverage will
regard for the safety of others. principles. also be provided. Basic terminology and
burn pattern analysis will be provided and
Just as other emergency response Presented by: Mike Cardwell, Assistant
professionals maintain and upgrade Chief, Urbandale Fire Department, and re-enforced through multiple case studies
their skills, you, too, must keep your FSTB Field Staff Instructor with special emphasis on the investigation
skills up to date. This course has been of fatality fires.
designed specifically to help you refresh 852 Saturday 8:30am - 3:30pm / Scheman Presented by: John Ticer, Special Agent,
and improve your driving skills in both Class Limit: 24 Arson and Explosives Bureau, Iowa
emergency and non-emergency situations. Division of State Fire Marshal

By watching the video presentation,
applying the information to exercises in the 854 Sunday 8:30am - 3:30pm/ Scheman
student handout, interacting with others in Class Limit: 50
the class and, subsequently,
incorporating the skills into your daily
driving, you will reduce your chances of
becoming involved in a collision.
Presented by: Trooper Alex Dinkla, Safety
Education Officer, Iowa State Patrol

851 Saturday 8:30am - 3:30pm / Scheman
Class Limit: 35
Updating Fireground Tactics -
Note: Students in this class will be charged a
$15.00 Resource Fee. A Scientific Approach
Over the past several years, research
EMS CEHs: 6 Optional organizations have published several
Sponsor #: 18-0010-012-OE significant studies related to the fire
service. These studies have the potential
of significantly altering the fire service’s
approach to structural firefighting. The
purpose of this workshop is to expose the
participants to these studies, their results,
and specific changes departments can
make to utilize this valuable information.
You will have a chance to discuss some of
these recent research reports from NIST
and Underwriters Laboratories, including
the research conducted at Governor’s
Island (NY) and Spartanburg (SC).
Presented by: Mike Cardwell, Assistant
Chief, Urbandale Fire Department, and
FSTB Field Staff Instructor

853 Sunday 8:30am - 3:30pm / Scheman
Class Limit: 24

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