Firehouse Central 2010 will take place September 27-October 1, 2010 in Dallas, TX.
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Preconference 2009

October 26, 2009
8:00 AM	CANCELLED -- PRE23: ITAC Command Competency Mark Emery, Battalion Chief, Woodinville, WA Fire & Life Safety District 2-Day Class: Category: Leadership The fireground incident commander is responsible for the management of three things: strategy, resources, and risk. Using multiple-screen simulations, action plan templates, status boards, portable radios, and passports, this highly interactive ?clinic? will provide strategic ?tools? you need to be a competent incident commander, company officer, safety officer, branch director, division supervisor, or group supervisor. You will discover . . . ? A structured and systematic process for establishing and managing an effective command post ? Six contemporary fireground operational modes ? How to quickly develop a square-foot fireground incident action plan ? How to achieve and maintain communication span of control ? How to communicate meaningful, concise status reports ? How to ?supervise? a division or group (action plan, accountability, communications) ? How to quickly achieve?and maintain??Tactical Accountability? ? How to proactively address applicable OSHA mandates and NFPA standards ? How to address the Ten Command-ments of intelligent and safe fireground operations You will discover what an intelligent and safe fireground operation should look like and sound like. Plus you?ll have fun! NOTE: The ITAC Command Competency Clinic provides music to the words of ICS and NIMS. Designed specifically for square-foot fireground incident managers (versus square-mile fireground incident mangers), the ITAC is to ICS/NIMS what Microsoft Windows is to MS DOS; MS DOS is the ?operating system,? Windows is the user interface that makes the operating system intuitive, user-friendly, and easy to use. In addition, the ITAC Clinic is the only program in North America that offers how to address 100% of the performance requirements identified by NFPA 1561, the Standard on Emergency Services Incident Management System. A $50 fee is added to this class.
October 27, 2009
8:00 AM	CANCELLED -- PRE23: ITAC Command Competency Mark Emery, Battalion Chief, Woodinville, WA Fire & Life Safety District 2-Day Class: Category: Leadership The fireground incident commander is responsible for the management of three things: strategy, resources, and risk. Using multiple-screen simulations, action plan templates, status boards, portable radios, and passports, this highly interactive ?clinic? will provide strategic ?tools? you need to be a competent incident commander, company officer, safety officer, branch director, division supervisor, or group supervisor. You will discover . . . ? A structured and systematic process for establishing and managing an effective command post ? Six contemporary fireground operational modes ? How to quickly develop a square-foot fireground incident action plan ? How to achieve and maintain communication span of control ? How to communicate meaningful, concise status reports ? How to ?supervise? a division or group (action plan, accountability, communications) ? How to quickly achieve?and maintain??Tactical Accountability? ? How to proactively address applicable OSHA mandates and NFPA standards ? How to address the Ten Command-ments of intelligent and safe fireground operations You will discover what an intelligent and safe fireground operation should look like and sound like. Plus you?ll have fun! NOTE: The ITAC Command Competency Clinic provides music to the words of ICS and NIMS. Designed specifically for square-foot fireground incident managers (versus square-mile fireground incident mangers), the ITAC is to ICS/NIMS what Microsoft Windows is to MS DOS; MS DOS is the ?operating system,? Windows is the user interface that makes the operating system intuitive, user-friendly, and easy to use. In addition, the ITAC Clinic is the only program in North America that offers how to address 100% of the performance requirements identified by NFPA 1561, the Standard on Emergency Services Incident Management System. A $50 fee is added to this class.
8:00 AM	CANCELLED -- PRE25: Firefighter Survival Jody Reece, Lt, Cobb County Fire and Emergency Services Training Division Marietta, GA This is a hands-on Preconference class that will be held at the Convention Center. Firefighters face many hazards in the line of duty. Structural firefighting presents unique hazards that firefighters must face daily. Among these hazards are: structural collapse, sudden fire extension, explosion, becoming lost and becoming entangled. In some cases, firefighters find themselves in situations where they have to rely on their own skills to survive and escape. This course is designed to prepare firefighters to perform self rescue when things go wrong. The Firefighter Survival Course consists of four segments: ? May Day Classroom - Here students learn the basic concept of initiating a ?May Day? call and the concepts of self rescue. ? May Day Drill (using Survival Maze) - Firefighters develop and practice the skills necessary to initiate a May Day call, and then perform self rescue in a maze designed to duplicate the hazards encountered in an actual structure fire. ? Disentanglement - Firefighters learn about common entanglement hazards encountered in structure fires, how to avoid them, and how to escape them. ? Window Bailouts ? Firefighters learn and practice techniques to escape upper floors of structures. Required: Full Turnout Gear (NFPA P.P.E.) and SCBA.
1:00 PM	CANCELLED -- PRE24: Courage to Be Safe William D. Hayes, National Advocate Program Manager, NFFF Dir of Public Info and Community Affairs,DC Fire and EMS Category: Safety This is a cutting edge training component of the Everyone Goes Home program through the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. We'll examine the 16 Life Safety Initiatives and how to implement them in your organization and how we can prevent firefighter injuries and line of duty deaths.
1:00 PM	CANCELLED -- PRE26: Firefighter Survival Jody Reece, Lt, Cobb County Fire and Emergency Services Training Division Marietta, GA This is a hands-on Preconference class that will be held at the Convention Center. Firefighters face many hazards in the line of duty. Structural firefighting presents unique hazards that firefighters must face daily. Among these hazards are: structural collapse, sudden fire extension, explosion, becoming lost and becoming entangled. In some cases, firefighters find themselves in situations where they have to rely on their own skills to survive and escape. This course is designed to prepare firefighters to perform self rescue when things go wrong. The Firefighter Survival Course consists of four segments: ? May Day Classroom - Here students learn the basic concept of initiating a ?May Day? call and the concepts of self rescue. ? May Day Drill (using Survival Maze) - Firefighters develop and practice the skills necessary to initiate a May Day call, and then perform self rescue in a maze designed to duplicate the hazards encountered in an actual structure fire. ? Disentanglement - Firefighters learn about common entanglement hazards encountered in structure fires, how to avoid them, and how to escape them. ? Window Bailouts ? Firefighters learn and practice techniques to escape upper floors of structures. Required: Full Turnout Gear (NFPA P.P.E.) and SCBA.