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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS & REGISTRATION
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2013 FDTN Calendar/Product Order Form!
Registration:
$675.00
$600.00 - FDTN Members
Deadline:
21 days prior to start
date.
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Fireground Command
April 21-23, 2013
October 24-26, 2013
Location: FDTN Training Academy - Indianapolis,
Indiana
Commanding fires on the fireground isn't something that can be taught from a book! This 3-day course is designed for anyone who is faced with running a fireground. The course incorporates building construction, size-up, managing fireground resources, establishing and maintaining a fireground presence, communication, terminology, safety, accountability and more. Hands-on components build and test your skills under realistic, live-fire, conditions—real fires, real companies, real problems. Enrollment is limited.
Note: This course is run simultaneously with the
Engine Company Operations II and Truck Company Operations II courses -- providing realistic fireground
working conditions and communication challenges on a realistic fireground.
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Registration:
$675.00
$600.00 - FDTN Members
Deadline:
21 days prior to start
date.
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Rapid Intervention Teams
May 6-8, 2013
November 11-13, 2013
Location: FDTN Training Academy - Indianapolis,
Indiana
THIS COURSE IS A MUST HAVE
FOR ALL FIREFIGHTERS! Rapid intervention
begins with PREVENTION. This course teaches rapid intervention skills in 3
stages: Firefighter Survival, Firefighter Rescue, and Rapid Intervention Team
Operations.
Day one
is spent building prevention skills into each firefighter (and
preparing them to be members of a RIT). Skills include: SCBA
emergencies, MAYDAY, disorientation emergencies and emergency
escape techniques.
Day two is spent learning
the individual techniques and skills involved in firefighter
rescue. Skills include: Emergency air supply, searching for a
firefighter, assessing and packaging a firefighter, drags and
carries, ladder rescues, rescues from entanglements, breaches,
below grade and restricted areas.
Day three
details the positions, assignments, and fireground operations
(proactive tasks, tool use, staging, and more) of a rapid
intervention team. Skills include: performing as RIT officer,
navigation/air supply, search and packaging firefighter assigned
to a RIT. Day three scenarios combine all skills learned, under
realistic fireground conditions, while operating as a RIT in
response to a fireground MAYDAY.
This intense
three-day course provides students with the solid foundation and
skill-set needed to work as a member of a rapid intervention
team on the fireground.
The Fire Department Training Network's Fireground Survival & Rapid Intervention Teams course is the most comprehensive course available for developing, training, and implementing rapid intervention teams. The program is made up of three modules: Firefighter Survival, Firefighter Rescue, and Rapid Intervention Team Operations. The program, and associated curriculm, exceeds all aspects as outlined in NFPA 1407 Standard for Training Rapid Intervention Crews.
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Registration:
$225.00
$200.00 - FDTN Members
Deadline:
21 days prior to start
date.
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Commanding Rapid Intervention Team
Operations
May 8, 2013
November 13, 2013
Location: FDTN Training Academy - Indianapolis,
Indiana
This 1-day course covers the
basics of commanding rapid intervention team operations. After a morning lecture
on RIT, students will Command multiple incidents acting as the IC or Rescue
Sector during actual RIT deployment operations.
Course
covers: RIT staffing, member assignments and
responsibilities, the role of the RIT officer, RIT tools,
proactive fireground tasks, commanding fireground mayday
operations, the need for ongoing RIT training for
firefighters and Command, and more.
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Registration:
$1195.00
$1075.00 - FDTN Members
Deadline:
21 days prior to start
date.
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Rapid Intervention Teams:
Train-The-Trainer
May 6-10, 2013
November 11-15, 2013
Location: FDTN Training Academy - Indianapolis,
Indiana
 The Fire Department Training Network's Fireground Survival & Rapid Intervention Teams Train-the-Trainer Course is the most comprehensive RIT training program and curriculum available. The course provides departments with a comprehensive, step-by-step, instructional program for developing, training, and implementing a fire department RIT program. The program, and associated curriculm, exceeds all aspects as outlined in NFPA 1407 Standard for Training Rapid Intervention Crews.
This 40-hour
Train-the-Trainer course prepares you to deliver FDTN's
highly-successful 3-day Fireground Survival and Rapid Intervention Teams
training program.
Students who successfully
complete all written and practical components of this intense
Train-the-Trainer program will receive FDTN's Fireground Survival and
Rapid Intervention Teams training curriculum package. The training package
covers:
The Train-the-Trainer
program consist of classroom and hands-on training, as well as student-lead
teaching components.
Successful completion
will allow the Trainers to return to their individual departments
with a complete training program that can be delivered to its members.
By implementing the program outlined in the Fire Department Training
Network's Fireground Survival and Rapid Intervention Teams Instructor
Manual and using Fireground Survival Student Kits (includes student
manuals, student tests, and student certificate), trainers will be
able to deliver this program to all department personnel.
The program also
provides your department with the flexibility to present the material in
modules (The program can be taught as a 3-day course or broken into
individual 1/2-, 1-, or 2-day components.). This provides the option of
integrating it into the department's normal work schedule.
Fireground Survival and
Rapid Intervention Teams Train-the-Trainer prerequisites:
- Sponsorship Letter
from fire department (contact FDTN for details).
- NFPA Instructor I or
equivalent.
- Certificate of
completion (from a recognized training program) of a Fireground Safety
and Survival course.
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Registration:
$675.00
$600.00 - FDTN Members
Deadline:
21 days prior to start
date.
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Advanced Rapid Intervention Teams
May 13-15, 2013 -- REGISTRATION CLOSED
FDTN Training Academy - Indianapolis,
Indiana
This 3-day course builds on our basic course and presents students with increasingly difficult RIT operations, under live fire conditions. After reviewing basic RIT positions and assignments, students perform individual rescue and RIT skills under realistic smoke and fire conditions. Day 3 is all scenario-based, including basement and commercial building operations. The course allows you to perform complete RIT operations under the most realistic conditions you'll find on any training ground — it's as close to the real thing as possible.
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Brochure
Registration:
$1195.00
$1075.00 - FDTN Members
Deadline:
21 days prior to start
date.
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Fireground Company Officer
June 17-21, 2013
Location: FDTN Training Academy - Indianapolis,
Indiana
This is a fireground-based company officer course designed
around Common Sense and Solid Fireground Skills! The course is for company
officers and those firefighters on their way to becoming a company officer.
Fireground Company Officer was developed to build a solid
and functional fireground officer -- both on the fireground and back at the
firehouse. Skills will focus on communication, team building, problem solving
(through prevention), training, fireground officer skills and performance, the
engine company officer, the truck company officer, the station officer, and
Basic Common Sense.
It's not a textbook-type, sit-on-your-butt, course! This
course builds and improves company officer skills through hard work and
performance. It takes a lot more than being a good firefighter to be a good
company officer. Do you have what it takes?
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about this course
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Registration:
$675.00
$600.00 - FDTN Members
Deadline:
21 days prior to start
date.
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Engine Company Operations I
***********************April 18-20, 2013 -- FULL -- ACCEPTING WAITING LIST ONLY *****
August 19-21, 2013
October 21-23, 2013
Location: FDTN Training Academy - Indianapolis,
Indiana
This 3-day course is pure Engine Company Operations. A
morning lecture identifies fireground engine company operations,
including riding positions and assignments, water supply, stretching and
operating the first line, the backup line, and when to use the 2-1/2 inch line.
Hands on skill stations are conducted, under increasingly realistic conditions,
to build solid engine company skills. Day 3 is all scenario-based under live
fire conditions, performing as members of an engine company.
Note:
This course is run simultaneously with the
Truck Company Operations course -- providing realistic fireground
working conditions and communication challenges between crews.
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about this course |
Registration:
$675.00
$600.00 - FDTN Members
Deadline:
21 days prior to start
date.
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Truck Company Operations I
***********************April 18-20, 2013 -- FULL -- ACCEPTING WAITING LIST ONLY *****
August 19-21, 2013
October 21-23, 2013
Location: FDTN Training Academy - Indianapolis,
Indiana
This 3-day course is pure Truck Company Operations. A
morning lecture identifies fireground truck company operations, including
riding positions and assignments, search, ventilation, tools, and the
inside/outside team concept. Hands on skill stations are conducted, under
increasingly realistic conditions, to build solid truck company skills. Day 3 is
all scenario-based under live fire conditions, performing as members of a
truck company.
Note:
This course is run simultaneously with the
Engine Company Operations course -- providing realistic fireground
working conditions and communication challenges between crews.
email us for more information
about this course |
Registration:
$675.00
$600.00 - FDTN Members
Deadline:
21 days prior to start
date.
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Fireground Search Operations
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Location: FDTN Training Academy - Indianapolis,
Indiana
This intense 3-day course
covers fireground search techniques.
Aggressive fireground search saves lives, the clock
starts ticking before you ever arrive. The amount of time it takes to find a
victim determines the victims chances of survival. We don’t get enough fires to
learn effective search skills on the street — the stakes are too high. After
reviewing search size-up and developing a search plan, students learn and
develop solid search techniques under increasingly realistic conditions.
Residential searches, multiple dwellings, commercial buildings, and more…You’ll
conduct searches in some of the most realistic conditions possible to develop
your search skills. It’s the basics skills that save lives — learn them!
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Registration:
$675.00
$600.00 - FDTN Members
Deadline:
21 days prior to start
date.
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Engine Company Operations II
April 21-23, 2013
October 24-26, 2013
Location: FDTN Training Academy - Indianapolis,
Indiana
This 3-day couse takes your
engine company skills and puts them to the test under realistic fireground
conditions. Live fire scenarios are conducted throughout the class, using
different building types, to allow students to practice and refine both their
engine company skills and their fireground decision making. Note: This course
runs simultaneously with the Truck Company Operations II course.
PRE-REQUISITE: Engine Company
Operations I.
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about this course |
Registration:
$675.00
$600.00 - FDTN Members
Deadline:
21 days prior to start
date.
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Truck Company Operations II
April 21-23, 2013
October 24-26, 2013
Location: FDTN Training Academy - Indianapolis,
Indiana
This 3-day couse takes your
truck company skills and puts them to the test under realistic fireground
conditions. Live fire scenarios are conducted throughout the class, using
different building types, to allow students to practice and refine both their
truck company skills and their fireground decision making. Note: This course
runs simultaneously with the Engine Company Operations II course.
PRE-REQUISITE: Truck
Company Operations I.
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about this course
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Registration:
$675.00
$600.00 - FDTN Members
Deadline:
21 days prior to start
date.
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****NEW**** Engine Company Operations III ****NEW****
September 23-25, 2013
******** REGISTRATION IS CLOSED ********
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ACCEPTING WAITING LIST ONLY ********
Location: FDTN Training Academy - Indianapolis,
Indiana
This course expands on Engine Company Operations I & II and focuses on sustained engine company operations on the fireground. The course relies heavily on scenario-based learning to present additional engine company skills likely to be used on the fireground. Engine company strategy and tactics, based on individual building types, are identified and explained. Live fire skill stations are utilized to develop both physical and mental conditioning and skills needed to operate as engine company members on the fireground. Scenarios involve multiple building types. This course runs simultaneous with the Truck Company Operations III course.
PRE-REQUISITE: Engine Company
Operations I & Engine Company Operations II.
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about this course |
Registration:
$675.00
$600.00 - FDTN Members
Deadline:
21 days prior to start
date.
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****NEW**** Truck Company Operations III ****NEW****
September 23-25, 2013
******** REGISTRATION IS CLOSED ********
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ACCEPTING WAITING LIST ONLY ********
Location: FDTN Training Academy - Indianapolis,
Indiana
This course expands on Truck Company Operations I & II and focuses on sustained truck company operations on the fireground. The course relies heavily on scenario-based learning to present additional truck company skills likely to be used on the fireground. Truck company strategy and tactics, based on individual building types, are identified and explained. Life fire skill stations are utilized to develop both physical and mental conditioning skills needed to operate as truck company members on the fireground. Scenarios involve multiple building types. This course is run simultaneous with the Engine Company Operations III course.
PRE-REQUISITE: Truck
Company Operations I and Truck Company Operations II.
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FDTN Course Cancellation Policy
FDTN's Course Cancellation Policy: Cancellations must be made in writing and
sent to FDTN, P.O. Box 1852, Indianapolis,
IN 46206 (FAX 317-862-9685). Cancellations received in excess of 45 days prior to start of event will be issued a full refund; Cancellation received from 31 and 45 days prior to start of event will be refunded 75% of the registration fee; Cancellations received between 22 and 30 days prior to start of event will be refunded 50% of the registration fee; Cancellations received within 21 days of event start date are non-refundable. Name changes are permitted
with no charge up to the start of the event.
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