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Bomb Threats . . . What Do We Do?
Anhydrous Ammonia
John Ticer, Special Agent, Arson and Explosives Bureau, Iowa Division of State Fire Marshal;
and Jeff Cullen, Special Agent, Arson and Explosives Bureau, Iowa Division of State Fire Training for First
Marshal Responders

This workshop will examine firefighter, EMS and police response to bomb threats in your Cliff McFarland, Chief of Training
community. Examples of “best practices” will be examined, along with pre-planning and actual (Retired), West Des Moines Fire
events, stressing pre-event coordination between responders and facility personnel. A brief Department, and FSTB Field Instructor
introduction to explosives recognition and improvised explosive device detection will be included.
This workshop provides information on
Class Limit: 50 the use, properties, containers, shipping
papers, and behavior of anhydrous
ammonia. A key aspect of this workshop
is the emergency response to anhydrous
ammonia emergencies.
Class Limit: 25

519 Sat PM NEW
520 Sun PM

Top 20 Tactical
Considerations from
Firefighter Research

Eric Dunn, Chairman, Fire Science
Program, Des Moines Area Community
College

This workshop looks at the fire research,
completed by NIST and UL, and how we
now look at the fireground and our fire
suppression tactics. Participants will look
at the fire research results and compare
them to different tactical approaches.
Class Limit: 50

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