Page 9 - 2017 Annual Fire School Brochure

ONE DAY CLASSES

729 Saturday NEW 731 Saturday

Mentoring the Fire Service Instructor Bomb Threats and
Hazardous Labs

Cliff McFarland retired Chief of Training West Des Moines Fire Department, FSTB Field
Staff Instructor, President of Fire Training Consultants, LLC; and Doug Kolkman, Fire John Ticer and Jeff Cullen,
Captain of the Yarmouth Fire Department, Vice President of the IaSFSI, and FSTB Field Special Agents, Arson and
Staff Instructor Explosives Bureau,Iowa Division
of State Fire Marshal
An effective and efficient instructor mentoring program is an important component of
striving for constant improvement in fire service training. Most training sessions involve This course will examine firefighters,
some type of evaluation of the students, which can also be viewed as one part of the EMS, and law enforcement response
evaluation of an instructor. This program will present the purposes of mentoring, the methods to bomb threats in your community,
for fire service instructor mentoring, describe the mentoring process, and describe the along with three separate types of
role of providing feedback to the fire service instructor using an evaluation. This program hazardous responses first responders
is especially important to new and recently appointed instructors along with veteran may be exposed to:methamphetamine
instructors wanting to be mentors and will introduce the Iowa Society’s mentoring services. labs, homemade explosive labs, and
chemical suicide. This course will
closely examine “best practices” if a
threat occurs and will look at both the
pre-planning and the actual events
stressing pre-event coordination
730 Saturday between all responders and facilities.
This course will examine the hazards in
Emergency Vehicle Operator: Fire each response and provide information
(Classroom only - No driving) concerning early detection of hazardous
labs. Hazard recognition
will be reinforced with
Senior Trooper Doug Cutts, Safety Education Officer, Iowa State Patrol; multiple case studies.
Trooper Alex Dinkla, Safety Education Officer, Iowa State Patrol
As a fire apparatus operator, both your crew and the general public rely on your ability to
remain calm and focused while maneuvering safely through traffic. Your firefighting team
counts on you to get them to the fireground to perform their function, and the general 732 Saturday
public relies on you to operate as a professional - with due regard for the safety of others.
Just as other emergency response professionals maintain and upgrade their skills, you, too, You’re in the Right Seat…
must keep your skills up to date. This course has been designed specifically to help you Now What
refresh and improve your driving skills in both emergency and non-emergency situations.

By watching the video presentation, applying the information Mike Cardwell, Assistant Chief,
to exercises in the student handout, interacting with others in Urbandale Fire Department, and
the class and, subsequently, incorporating the skills into your FSTB Field Staff Instructor
daily driving, you will reduce your chances of becoming involved
in a collision. With today’s staffing limitations, young
officers often lack the experience, and
Students in this class will be charged a $25.00 resource fee. may not have an on-scene chief officer
to make critical fireground decisions.
EMS CEHs: 6 Hours - Optional This course teaches the process of
how to apply information gathered
during response and size-up to make
initial strategy decision based upon
fundamental risk analysis principles.

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