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The Fire Department Training Network offers a variety of no-nonsense, reality-based, training products. Designed around the highly-successful FIRESCUE Interactive format, the Network's training products are results-oriented.

Download an complete FDTN product order form.

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FireNotes™ Training Manuals

Finally, easy-to-follow, tell-it-like-it-is training books that are reality-based! Let's face it — it's time to focus on the need-to-know not the nice-to-know.

24.95 (19.95 member) Order Online	Chapters Include: Fireground Survival Training–What's the Big Deal? Preparing for Fireground Survival Managing YOUR MAYDAY SCBA Emergencies Disorientation Emergencies Emergency Escape Techniques Firefighter Survival Training Sessions Written by Jim McCormack, Indianapolis Fire Department with Bob Pressler, FDNY (retired)
34.95 (29.95 member) Order Online	Chapters Include: SECTION 1 — Firefighter Rescue Firefighter Rescue: The Ultimate Fireground Challenge Searching for a Firefighter Assessing, Stabilizing and Packaging a Firefighter SECTION 2 — Rapid Intervention Teams Why Do We Need Rapid Intervention Teams The Rapid Intervention Team RIT Tools & Staging Preparing the Fireground — Proactive RIT Tasks Responding to a MAYDAY — The RIT Deployment Commanding Rapid Intervention Operations SECTION 3 — Firefighter Rescue & RIT Training Sessions Written by Jim McCormack, Indianapolis Fire Department
24.95 (19.95 member) Order Online	Chapters Include: Size-Up: Who, What, When, Where, Why? Two Basic Approaches to Fireground Size-Up The Five-Point Size-Up The Thirteen-Point Size-Up The Fireground Size-Up: Putting It All Together Training Sessions Written by Bob Pressler, FDNY (retired)
24.95 (19.95 member) Order Online	Chapters Include: The Purpose of the First Line Determining Line Size & Position Estimating the Stretch Stretching the First Line Engine Company Assignments Engine Company Tools Operating the First Line During Emergencies Training for the Engine Company Written by Tim Klett, FDNY
24.95 (19.95 member) Order Online	Chapters Include: History of Thermal Imaging Thermal Imaging Technologies How Thermal Imaging Works Safety Considerations & Thermal Imaging Individual Chapters On: Size-Up, Fire Attack, Overhaul, Ventilation, Search & Rescue, and HazMat Non-fire Uses of Thermal Imaging Written by Jonathan Bastian, former Training Specialist for Bullard Manufacturing

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FDTN Company Training Drills
(6 complete lesson plans per Volume)

Adapted from the Network's highly successful monthly training package—FIRESCUE Interactive Department Trainer—we're pleased to offer four volumes of training drills: Engine Company Operations, Truck Company Operations, Firefighter Survival, and Firefighter Rescue & Rapid Intervention Teams.

Each volume contains six complete training sessions which inlude:

• Session Overview and Goals
• Resource and Reference Listing
• Detailed Lesson Plan (outline)
• Hands-On Activities (3 drills per session)
• Student Handout
• Student Test

99.00 (89.00 member) Order Online	Engine Company Operations Training Drills Stretching & Advancing the First Line Performing Difficult Stretches Fireground Water Supply The 21/2-inch Handline Fireground Master Streams Car Fires 6 Detailed Lesson Plans — 18 Hands-On Activities
99.00 (89.00 member) Order Online	Truck Company Operations Training Drills Forcible Entry Ground Ladders Fireground Search: Residential Vent–Enter–Search Peaked Roof Ventilation Flat Roof Ventilation 6 Detailed Lesson Plans — 18 Hands-On Activities
99.00 (89.00 member) Order Online	Firefighter Survival Training Drills Firefighter MAYDAY SCBA Emergencies I SCBA Emergencies II Firefighter Disorientation Escaping Deteriorating Conditions Emergency Window Exits 6 Detailed Lesson Plans — 18 Hands-On Activities
99.00 (89.00 member) Order Online	Firefighter Rescue & RIT Training Drills Searching for a Firefighter Emergency Air Supply Moving a Downed Firefighter RIT Tools RIT Ops: Preparing the Fireground RIT Ops: Responding to a MAYDAY 6 Detailed Lesson Plans — 18 Hands-On Activities

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FireNotes™ Training Videos

74.95 (69.95 member) Order Online

This video was designed with training in mind. Watch the entire video, or a chapter at a time, and then hit the training ground and perform the skills…the best training video available in the fire service! Firefighter Survival DVD Chapters Include: Developing a Survival Attitude SCBA Knowledge Mayday Management SCBA Low Profile Emergencies SCBA Entanglement Emergencies Disorientation Emergencies Wall Breaching Ladder Slide 51 minutes

FDTN's no-nonsense training videos compliment its FireNotes series of training books. These videos will allow you to SEE the skills before and after you train. There's no substitute for performing the skills but videos provide an excellent way to accelerate learning and refresh the material. These short, to-the-point, videos will be an excellent addition to any training program or your own personal library. Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words!

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Training Lesson Plans

Back issues of the FIRESCUE Interactive Department Trainer are available for $20.00 per issue. Choose from individual issues, yearly volumes, or a complete set. For complete Volumes, or the entire collection of back issues, contact the Network for pricing. Contact the Network for additional information or to order. Quantity discounts are available to Network members.

Listing of Previous FIRESCUE Interactive Department Trainers

Volume IX (2005) Fireground Operations: Private Dwellings Venting Windows Firefighter Survival — Part I Forcing Padlocks & Chains Engine Ops: Extended Hose Stretches Fireground Ops: Controlling the Utilities Radio Communications on the Fireground Strategy & Tactics: Modern Strip Malls Truck Company Ops: First-Due Truck Engine Company Ops: First-Due Engine Volume VIII (2004) Ventilation: Private Dwellings RIT: Assessing, Stabilizing & Packaging a Firefighter Commercial Building Forcible Entry Developing a Sustained Water Supply Vehicle Extrication I – Assignments, Tools, Staging RIT Air Pack Aerial Master Streams Rescuing Civilians Hose & Nozzle Basics Big Lines & Defensive Operations Moving Victims Over Stairs SCBA Air Management Volume VII (2003) Engine Company Emergencies Firefighter Window Rescues Conventional Forcible Entry Fireground Collapse & Firefighter Rescue Engine Company Basics Rapid Intervention Team Tools Rope-Based Systems for Firefighter Rescue Apparatus Operations – Engine Basics (pumping) Apparatus Operations – Ladder Basics (aerial ops) Commercial Building Fires Truck Company Operations Stretching Hoselines to Upper Floors Volume VI (2002) FF Survival: Escaping Deteriorating Conditions RIT: Preparing the Fireground SCBA Emergencies Part I Reduced profile, Entanglements RIT: Responding to a MAYDAY SCBA Emergencies Part II Out-of-Air, Equipment failures Fireground Search – Residential Company Level Preplans FF Survival: Emergency Window Exits Part I Truck Company Tools: The Chain Saw Engine Ops: Performing Difficult Stretches Fireground Communications The 2-1/2 Gallon Extinguisher (the Can) Volume V (2001) FF Rescue: Removing a FF Through the Floor Ground Ladders on the Fireground Forcible Entry — Rotary Saws Stretching and Advancing the First Line Engine Company Operations — Water Supply Ventilating Flat Roofs Fireground Team Search Fireground Size-Up Carbon Monoxide Responses Fixed Suppression Systems — Sprinklers Fireground Skills Review FF Rescue: Moving a Downed Firefighter

Volume IV (2000) Vent-Enter-Search Operations RIT Operations: Emergency Air Supply Firefighter Disorientation FF Rescue: Searching for a Firefighter Peaked Roof Ventilation Positive Pressure Ventilation Master Streams The 2 1/2-inch Handline Car Fires Firefighter MAYDAY Fireground Entanglement Emergencies Foam Operations — Flammable Liquids Volume III (1999) Exit Drills for Firefighters Navigating Stairs Salvage — Catching & Controlling Water Incident Benchmarks Power Saws Rapid Intervention Large Area Search Engine Company Operations Ladder Company Operations Air Bags Forcible Entry Primary Search Volume II (1998) Patient Removal Hoisting Equipment Firefighter Through the Floor Standpipe Systems Supply Line Layouts Vehicle Extrication SCBA Emergencies Power Tools Size-Up / Assignments Stretching Initial Attack Lines Ground Ladders Forcible Exit — Breaching Volume I (1997) First Alarm Assignments Tanker Shuttles Sprinkler Systems The Ladder Slide Rapid Intervention Cribbing Search and Rescue

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