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3-HOUR WORKSHOPS
711 Saturday AM 713 Saturday AM 715 Saturday PM
712 Sunday AM 714 Sunday AM NEW 716 Sunday PM NEW
Firefighter Cancer: Integration, Are YOU Who’s in Charge
Awareness and Ready? Around Here?
Prevention &
Whose Money Is It
Cory Macumber, Firefighter,
Rich Rodewald, Drill Master, Urbandale Fire Department; Anyway?
Council Bluffs Fire Department, Tom Hartshorn, Firefighter,
and FSTB Field Staff Instructor Iowa City Fire Department George Oster, George Oster &
Associates, LLC, Boone, IA
There are a lot of things in the fire This class discusses the hot topic
service that kill firefighters…heart of Fire/EMS’s role during an active In this workshop, you will learn how
attacks, motor vehicle accidents, threat (shooter) incident to stop the Iowa’s fire and emergency response
and running out of air are all causes dying. How safe is safe enough? Fire/ departments are formed and governed.
that we talk about often and work EMS can no longer allow victims This will help you understand how your
hard to prevent. But recent research of these horrific incidents to die department is managed and who’s in
has shown that cancer is the most while we wait for the magic term charge – all the way from municipal and
dangerous and unrecognized threat “scene safe” before we enter and township departments to 28E Agencies,
to the health and safety of our begin treatment. Fire/EMS must benefited fire districts and corporate
nation’s firefighters. Multiple studies integrate with law enforcement and departments.
indicate that the high cancer rates law enforcement must integrate From this base knowledge, you will
among firefighters that we are now with Fire/EMS, which means we learn how the money from townships
seeing may be just the “tip of the must TALK AND TRAIN with each and cities is managed, who controls it
iceberg”. This workshop will present other to accomplish the mission to and how it flows. You will learn how
summaries of multiple cancer studies stop the killing and stop the dying. to work with cities and townships to
to help firefighters understand the We will discuss the importance of maximize your resources. The benefits
horrible magnitude of this problem. establishing ICS, developing zones of forming a nonprofit corporation to
In addition, participants will discuss of operation, integrating with manage grants and donations will be
methods to prevent cancer among law enforcement to establish a described.
firefighters that are low cost and easy rescue task force and/or a casualty Why should you participate in this
to implement. collection point and treatment of workshop? Without an understanding
these patients in a higher threat area of the basic organization and structure
EMS CEHs: 3 Hours - Optional based on the E-TECC guidelines. of emergency services and the flow
of money, you can’t effectively control
EMS CEHs: 3 Hours - Optional
and manage your department. This
workshop puts you in a position of
leadership and authority for your
community’s emergency services.
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