Page 15 - 2015 Annual Fire School Brochure

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Emergency Vehicle You’re in the Right Seat . . .
Forcible Entry Operator: Fire Now What?
(Classroom only - no driving)
FSTB Field Instructors Mike Cardwell, Assistant Chief,
Senior Trooper Doug Cutts, Safety Urbandale Fire Department, and FSTB
This hands-on workshop will provide Education Officer, Iowa State Patrol Field Instructor
participants with an opportunity to perform
forcible entry on a variety of new “forcible As a fire apparatus operator, both your With today’s staffing limitations, young
entry” door and window props. Students crew and the general public rely on your officers often lack the experience, and
will review basic forcible entry techniques ability to remain calm and focused while may not have an on-scene chief officer to
prior to practicing these techniques with maneuvering safely through traffic. Your make critical fireground decisions. This
appropriate tools. As the class progresses, fire fighting team counts on your to get course teaches the process of how to apply
the skill level will move from basic to more them to the fireground to perform their information gathered during response and
intermediate and advanced skills. function, and the general public relies on size-up to make initial strategy decision
you to operate as a professional - with due based upon fundamental risk analysis
Personal Protective Equipment regard for the safety of others. principles.
Requirements Apply
Just as other emergency response Class Limit: 24
Class Limit: 30 professionals maintain and upgrade
their skills, you, too, must keep your
skills up to date. This course has been
designed specifically to help you refresh
and improve your driving skills in both 537 Sun
534 Sat emergency and non-emergency situations.
Updating Fireground Tactics -
By watching the video presentation,
Fire Investigation applying the information to exercises in the A Scientific Approach
Fundamentals for student handout, interacting with others in
Firefighters the class and subsequently incorporating Mike Cardwell, Assistant Chief,
the skills into your daily driving, you will Urbandale Fire Department, and FSTB
John Ticer, Special Agent, Arson and reduce your chances of becoming involved Field Instructor
Explosives Bureau, Iowa Division of in a collision.
State Fire Marshal Over the past several years, research
Students in this class organizations have published several
This course will examine the fundamentals will be charged a significant studies related to the fire service.
of basic fire investigation for responding $25.00 resource fee. These studies have the potential of
firefighters and fire officers. Participants Class Limit: 35 significantly altering the fire service’s
will discuss the information and approach to structural firefighting. The
observations that need to be collected purpose of this workshop is to expose the
to establish the basis for a thorough fire participants to these studies, their results,
investigation. The State Fire Marshal’s and specific changes departments can make
response policy and areas of coverage will to utilize this valuable information. You
also be provided. Basic terminology and will have a chance to discuss some of these
burn pattern analysis will be provided and recent research reports from NIST and
re-enforced through multiple case studies Underwriters Laboratories, including the
with special emphasis research conducted at Governor’s Island
on the investigation (NY) and Spartanburg (SC).
of fatality fires.
Class Limit: 24
Class Limit: 50

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