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| ONE DAY CLASSES

Building Construction and Fire
Behavior for the Street Smart
Firefighter
This class presents the five types
NEW
of building construction and how fire
behaves in each type using a combination
of pictures, video and audio. Real world
experiences are shared and discussed
with participation from the students.
Further detail on both legacy and modern
construction is shared along with tactics
for dealing with all types of construction.

This class has been presented annually at
National Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Responder Training both the Illinois and Missouri Winter Fire
schools in addition to many locations in
Three injury crashes occur every minute in the United States, putting nearly 39,000 incident Illinois and Wisconsin and also in Colorado,
responders potentially in harm’s way every day. Congestion from these incidents can generate Maine and New Hampshire.
secondary crashes, increasing traveler delays and frustration. The longer responders remain on
the scene, the greater the risk they, and the motoring public face. This national training program Course Objectives:
is designed to encourage multi-discipline responders to work together from the moment the • Identify the 5 types of building
emergency call is made, to correct deployment of response vehicles and equipment, to a safe construction
work area using traffic control devices, to final scene clearance. • Identify fire behavior characteristics
• Identify incident command and control
Presented by: Doug Allen, Commander, Ames Fire Department, and Training Specialist, Fire procedures
Service Training Bureau; and representatives from the Iowa State Patrol
• Identify safety factors involving fire
behavior and building construction
842 Sunday 8:30 am- 3:30pm / Scheman • Identify proper fire ground
Class Limit: 30 communications
• Identify proper size up, identify causes
EMS CEHs: 6 Optional of fire ground firefighter fatalities and
Sponsor #: 18-0010-023-OE how they relate to building construction
and fire behavior.
Presented by: Mike Lopina, Lieutenant/
Paramedic with the Lockport Township
(IL) Fire District and owner of Firefighter
Education Group, LLC

843 Saturday 8:30am - 3:30pm / Scheman
Class Limit: 50

“Traffic incident management is something that’s important to
the fire service and all agencies involved because we need to
understand each other’s priorities. There’s been some conflict
in the past between law enforcement and fire on some of these
incidents, but the more we understand each agency’s priorities,
we can work better together”

- Doug Allen, Ames Fire Department

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