4-hour Workshops
401 – Advanced Airway Management Techniques – NEW
402 – The Art of Reading Smoke – NEW
403 – Automotive Supplemental Restraint Systems Safety and Hybrid Technology Awareness
404 – Basic Spanish Expressions for Fire and EMS Personnel
405 – Bruno and Friends
406 – Class One ES-Key Multiplex Systems – NEW – CANCELLED
407 – Coaching is Part of Leading
408 – Command Safety – NEW – CANCELLED
409 – Company Inspection Practices
410 – Connecting the Dots – NEW – CANCELLED
411 – Courage to Be Safe So Everyone Goes Home
412 – Creating Better Training Through More Effective Use Of Presentation
413 – Decision Making: First Arriving – NEW
414 – Don't Walk or Crawl Here – NEW
415 – Electrical Problems at Emergency Incidents
416 – Emergency Response to Ammonia Incidents
417 – Fire Apparatus Class 1 Electronic Monitoring Equipment – NEW
418 – Firefighter and Fire Officer Survival: Why Things Go Right and Why Things Go Wrong
419 – A Firefighter's Own Worst Enemy – NEW
420 – Fireground Operations: Show-Me Style – NEW
421 – Fire Service Hydraulics and Water Supply – NEW – CANCELLED
422 – Fire Stream Calculations in a Snap
423 – Hazmat Placards to Success – NEW
424 – Hazmat Planning & Training: What Local Emergency Planning.....? – NEW – CANCELLED
425 – Initial Fire Attack – Maximum Impact
426 – Inspection of Firestop System – NEW – CANCELLED
427 – Missouri Fire Service Funeral Assistance Team – NEW
428 – Missouri National Guard Civil Support Assets: Consequence Management – NEW – CANCELLED
429 – Missouri's Residential Sprinkler Mandatory Option Law: What It Means to Your Department – NEW
430 – Nursing Home Fires
431 – Operations and Placement of Aerial Apparatus – NEW
432 – Pipeline Awareness for Emergency Responders – NEW
433 – Positive Pressure Attack – NEW
434 – Rail Safety for Emergency Responders
435 – Self Contained Breathing Apparatus Survival
436 – Strategy and Tactics: Simulations – NEW
437 – Surviving the Routine Structure Fire
438 – Swiftwater and Flood Rescue
439 – Type III Building Construction – NEW
440 – Vehicle Technology and Incident Safety
441 – Ventilation to Die For – Or Not
442 – Violence Intervention by Prevention for Emergency Responders
401 – Advanced Airway Management Techniques – NEW
Paul Harris, BA, RN, Lake Regional Health System
This workshop is designed to acquaint the Advanced Life Support (ALS) provider with optional airway techniques that are uncommonly used. Although this class was designed for the ALS provider, Basic Life Support providers that are familiarized with these techniques would be a valuable asset as an assistant in performing these procedures. (EMS CEUs-Division II-4)
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402 – The Art of Reading Smoke – NEW
Dave Dodson
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Available as a webcast! Click Here
Often, smoke issuing from a building is the only clue available to predict fire behavior and the likelihood of a flashover or rapid fire spread. First-arriving officers must read smoke before choosing attack tactical priorities! Incident Commanders and Safety Officers must know how to rapidly read smoke in order to keep firefighters within an acceptable risk-profile.
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403 – Automotive Supplemental Restraint Systems Safety and Hybrid Technology Awareness
William B. Heath, Training Officer, Overland Park FD, KS
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This class will update the attendee on advances made in automotive supplemental restraint systems. (SRS) Included in the update will be recommendations for increasing Firefighter and medical personnel scene safety and body substance isolation (BSI) when at the scene of vehicle extrications, fires or medical calls. The focus of the material will be on patients inside a vehicle equipped with SRS. Hybrid technology in automobiles will be addressed in detail, covering several different makes and models of hybrid vehicles. An overview of hybrid technology and operations, general scene safety for hybrids, and specific disabling techniques will be covered in the classroom. A hands-on session with hybrid automobiles and light trucks will allow the attendee to see how hybrids operate and to practice disabling the vehicles. (EMS CEUs Module I-4)
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404 – Basic Spanish Expressions For Fire and EMS Personnel
Dean Martin, Division Chief, Columbia FD. MU FRTI 2009 Instructor of the Year
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This will be a hands-on participatory class. The instructor will present basic questions most often used when dealing with sick or injured people or interacting with Spanish speaking persons. Students will participate in verbal and written exercises to develop their ability to use the basic expressions. (DFS CEUs 4-Inspector, 4-Investigator, 4-Instructor) (EMS CEUs-Non Core-4) (POST CEUs 1 hr. Interpersonal-3-hr Skill.)
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405 – Bruno and Friends
Alan Brunacini, Fire Chief, Retired, Phoenix FD, AZ,
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Bobby Halton, Editor in Chief, Fire Engineering Magazine
Dr. Denis Onieal, Superintendent National Fire Academy
Sunday Only
For the second year at Winter Fire School we are bringing together years of fire service experience. An open forum will allow participants to ask this panel questions about national training, legislation, and the direction emergency services is going.
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406 – Class One ES-Key Multiplex Systems – NEW – CANCELLED
Marvin Johns, South Central Regional Manager, Hale Products Inc.
Saturday Only: 8:00 a.m. - Noon
The Class One ES-Key multiplex system is migrated into about every piece of mobile equipment imaginable in the fire service. This 4 hour workshop will give you the understanding of how this system works and what is new in multiplexing. Students will learn how to troubleshoot and view reports from the software used in the Class One ES-Key multiplex system.
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407 – Coaching is Part of Leading
Donna Forgy, Pro Skills Inc.
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This workshop provides the tools necessary to successfully coach individuals to perform a job, task or skill. In order to achieve results, coaching must go beyond just showing how to do something. Coaching involves observing, analyzing, demonstrating and giving feedback. It is a process of developing relationships with team members, that can ultimately build the trust and respect that is the foundation of successful organizations. (DFS CEUs 4-Instructor)
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408 – Command Safety - NEW – CANCELLED
Alan Brunacini, Fire Chief, Retired, Phoenix FD, AZ
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Saturday Only
Command Safety emphasizes the Incident Commander's role in protecting firefighters. The very basic objective is to improve the safety of firefighters who must go into the hazard zone and do the most important part of our business. The Incident Commanders who are charged with the responsibility to command and manage those operations must have the ability to create the strategic support that causes those firefighters to always get out of those hazardous places.
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409 – Company Inspection Practices
Steven Gettemeier, Deputy Chief, Florissant Valley FPD and Jason Webb, Assistant Chief, Belton FD
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Sunday Only: 8:00 a.m. - Noon
This workshop takes attendees through the ins and outs of a successful and efficient company level fire inspection. Designed for company level personnel, this workshop touches on legal aspects, prioritization, specific occupancy-based issues and customer service. Attendees will leave with a better understanding about what makes this important fire prevention function work to accomplish the overall mission of the department. (DFS CEUs 4-Inspector)
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410 – Connecting the Dots – NEW – CANCELLED
Bryan Dehner, Chief, Overland Park Kansas FD
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This 4-hour investment of your time will arm participants and division managers with tools to focus limited time and energy where the organization needs it the most. We will discuss the alignment of the organization to a unified mission and related strategic goals at the 10,000 foot level. Then we will break the enormous task of the fire chief's responsibility into bite-sized chunks for successful management and delegation. Our discussion will conclude with strategies to communicate what is important to the organization for both internal and external customers. The dividends of this discussion can be significant as it helps to connect the dots between your most valuable resource (people!) and your mission.
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411 – Courage To Be Safe So Everyone Goes Home
Todd Farley, Deputy Chief, Central Jackson County FPD
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Sunday Only
This presentation was originally developed by the Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Team with the assistance of many firefighters and fire officers including, Chief Billy Goldfeder and John Salka. It is intended to influence the participants toward changing the attitude that firefighter deaths are a normal and acceptable outcome. The program promotes the courage to do the right thing in order to protect firefighters from illness, injury and Line of Duty Death, "So that Everyone Goes Home." This presentation examines Line of Duty Deaths both at the state and national level. Firefighters must have the courage to face a multitude of risks in order to save lives and protect their communities. Their courage allows them to willingly risk their own lives so that others can be saved. A different type of courage is required to stay safe in potentially dangerous situations, avoiding needless risks and tragic consequences. (DFS CEUs 4-Inspector, 4-Investigator, 4-Instructor)
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412 – Creating Better Training Through More Effective Use of Presentation
Corey J. Molinelli, President, Molinelli Consulting Services
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The presenter will share his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. This course challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today's world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Corey shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of simplicity, this lecture will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations. No matter where you are on the organizational ladder, the odds are high that you've delivered a high-stakes presentation to your peers, your boss, your customers or the general public. Presentation software is one of the few tools that requires professionals to think visually on an almost daily basis. But unlike verbal skills, effective visual expression is not easy, natural or actively taught in schools or business training programs. This course will fill that void. Learn to connect with specific audiences, turn ideas into informative graphics, use sketching and diagramming techniques effectively, along with creating graphics that enable audiences to process information easily. Develop truly influential presentations and utilize presentation technology to your advantage with the information in this workshop. (DFS CEUs 4-Instructor)
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413 – Decision Making: First Arriving – NEW
Jerry Jenkins, Captain, Columbia FD
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Proper size-up for a fireground operation starts before the initial alarm. This class will go through the size-up process from pre-planning to assigning crews on the scene. All firefighters, not just officers and chiefs, should be part of the size-up assessment. The students will learn how to make size-up an everyday practice, regardless of the size of the incident. We will take the "blinders off" and look at the "big picture" of an incident to help incident commanders make good decisions and keep firefighters safe. We will focus on the strategic goals of an incident and ensure that the incident priorities and tactical objectives are carried out.
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414 – Don't Walk or Crawl Here – NEW
John Sachen, Hazardous Materials Officer, Delta FPD
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Prefab disasters present an increasingly high risk and hazard to firefighters in residential and small to medium commercial buildings where prefabricated frame building components are now being used in ever greater percentages. The prefabricated assemblies include the traditional medium weight wood truss in fast food truss-roof restaurants, the very light weight trusses in manufactured and modular homes, and finally the I-Joist (and now also the I-Rafter) with chipboard web assemblies, and in some cases strand board rails. While fire service has been aware of the hazards of frame trusses almost since their first introduction, the special hazards of the machinery space in the trusses above fast food truss-roof restaurants were not fully recognized until 2001. It will also feature an in-depth look at numerous incredible firefighter observations and photographs that show indicators that the hazard is developing in a specific residence.
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415 – Electrical Problems at Emergency Incidents
Larry Oxley, Senior Training Instructor, Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives
Larry Wilson, Specialist Emeritus, MU FRTI
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All of us have responded to an incident involving electricity. This workshop will define how to control electricity safely and the dangers present. Topics include: understanding the distribution system, electric meters and what to do with them, transformer fires, handling power lines that are down and fires in substations. Instruction and video presentations will provide an understanding of how electricity can injure or kill an emergency responder. (DFS CEUs 4-Investigator)
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416 – Emergency Response to Ammonia Incidents
Mike Booth, Regional Coordinator, MU FRTI
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Ammonia is one of the highest volume chemicals produced in the United States. Used primarily in the manufacturing of rocket fuels, synthetic fibers, yeast and explosives, with the most common use in fertilizer and as a refrigerant. With the current problem of theft of ammonia for drug production, this class will familiarize you with nurse tanks, transport containers and storage facilities where releases might occur. Other topics include chemical and physical properties, patient assessment, treatment and triaging multiple patients, hazard and risk assessment, public protection options, and emergency response options to safely mitigate an anhydrous ammonia incident. (EMS CEUs-Module III, Division IV-4)
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417 – Fire Apparatus Class 1 Electronic Monitoring Equipment – NEW
Marvin Johns, South Central Regional Manager,
Hale Products Inc.
Saturday Only: 1:30 - 5:30 p.m.
With today's new apparatus, everything now seems to have electronic monitoring equipment. This 4-hour workshop covers how to maintain and understand how these new electronic monitors work. The following topics will be covered: pressure governors, tank-level gauge, vehicle data recorders and seat belt warning systems.
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418 – Firefighter and Fire Officer Survival: Why Things Go Right and Why Things Go Wrong
Billy Goldfeder, Deputy Chief, Loveland-Symmes FD, OH
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Saturday Only
This workshop will provide organizational risk management training for firefighters, officers and instructors to learn what they can do immediately to avoid and minimize incidents from going horribly wrong. It focuses on the five pillars and the related rules of a successful organization, and gives the attendees ideas to initiate at their fire departments immediately on return home to improve performance. It will also feature an in-depth look at numerous incredible firefighter close calls and fatalities with solutions to avoid them.
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419 – A Firefighter's Own Worst Enemy – NEW
Jason Hoevelmann, Deputy Chief, Sullivan FPD
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A comprehensive look at why firefighters make bad decisions on the job and off duty. This class is designed to offer methods for dealing with your own problems and challenges as a firefighter and how to help officers assist their men and women with these problems. We will discuss why the same situations are killing us year after year and identify ways to avoid becoming a statistic. Finally, we will point out ways to enrich our own careers and personal lives, as well as assisting our firefighters in advancing their own careers and ways to help the organization improve and grow.
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420 – Fireground Operations: Show-Me Style – NEW
Smokey Dyer
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Saturday Only
Available as a webcast! Click Here
This workshop is directed toward incident commanders and company officers. The course will discuss risk management, offensive and defensive operations, coordinated offensive attacks, fire fighter safety, and other strategic and tactical considerations.
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421 – Fire Service Hydraulics and Water Supply – NEW – CANCELLED
Michael Wieder, Assistant Director, IFSTA
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Firefighters must know where their water supplies are, the capacity of their water supplies and approximately how much water is needed to extinguish each fire. This class covers the apparatus and pumps used, the primary "tools of the trade" for the firefighter. Finally, will also cover fire streams and pressure calculations.
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422 – Fire Stream Calculations in a Snap
Dave Wunderlin, Akron Brass Company
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This workshop centers around the use and understanding of the features contained in the Akron Brass Fire Streams Calculator Slide Rule. On one side it provides fire ground personnel rapid and accurate solutions for figuring fire ground hydraulics for flows up to 800 psi using 1/4" through 2" in solid-bore discharges and in fog nozzle from 10 GPM through 2000 GPM. The Friction Loss Calculator side is used to calculate friction loss from 15 GPM to 2000 GPM flow for 3/4" through 6" diameter hose sizes including 1 3/4" hose. Each student will receive a Akron Brass Company Fire Streams Calculator Slide Rule.
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423 – HazMat Placards To Success – NEW
Todd McKee, Firefighter, Eastern Knox County FD, OH
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This workshop is designed to meet and exceed the 29 CFR1910.120, paragraph (q), Awareness, Operation and Technician Level training requirements. Also covered are the basic defensive and offensive mitigation techniques available to responders. This program will provide a successful route for emergency responders to make quick decisions on a Hazardous Materials emergency scene. HazMat Placards to Success is a fast paced, high-energy presentation that includes several unique situations along with the code of federal regulations. This presentation requires instructor and student interaction. High impact videos and basic risk assessment will also allow students to better prepare themselves for basic and unique situations that could occur in their response areas. This is a must-see presentation that your emergency responders cannot afford to miss.
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424 – HazMat Planning and Training: What Can Local Emergency Planning Committee's Do For You? – NEW – CANCELLED
Michael White, Training Coordinator, Missouri Emergency Response Commission
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This class will offer information on how the fire service and other emergency services can work with Local Emergency Planning Committees to assist in planning and training for hazardous materials response. Topics covered include: how to receive free hazardous materials training; how can the LEPC planning process help you during a hazardous materials response; a review of how the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act provides critical information for planning and response; and how the Local Emergency Planning Committee supports emergency services through the planning process. A demonstration of the new MERIS Workspace project will also be given that provides search capabilities on all Tier II data for each county.
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425 – Initial Fire Attack – Maximum Impact
Terry Spoor, Instructor, Southeast Community College, NE
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This class provides current and prospective chief officers, training officers, fireground commanders, and company officers with initial fire attack, planning, and training considerations for the rapid, safe, and reliable control of structure fires. This workshop emphasizes the role and importance of the first arriving companies in delivery of adequate rate-of-flow for rapid fire knock-down and extinguishment. Participants are presented with a step-by-step system for identification of fire control challenges and solutions. Other topics included will be: determining needed fire flow, maximizing available water supplies, developing fire attack procedures, identification of equipment and apparatus requirements and firefighter training.
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426 – Inspection of Firestop System – NEW – CANCELLED
Dan Flynn, DRI, HCC, FDAI, Firestoppers
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This workshop is intended to help fire departments ensure that Firestop installations meet the new, stricter governing codes. The seminar focuses on the interpretation of UL systems, destructive testing techniques and enforcement needed for different Firestop applications. (DFS CEUs 4-Inspector)
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427 – Missouri Fire Service Funeral Assistance Team – NEW
Brian Zinanni, Coordinator, Missouri Fire Service Funeral Assistance Team
Do you know what to do if a member of your agency dies in the line of duty? This class is designed to bring awareness to assisting members of your organization before something happens, what you should do when something happens and identifying resources available to assist your agency should you face the unthinkable. We will cover funeral procedures for line-of-duty-death services, as well as services for non line-of-duty-deaths of active duty members as well as retired members and special dignitaries. We will also cover an in-depth understanding of the Public Safety Officers benefits process and the new State of Missouri Line of Duty Death benefits. We will also outline to you the many benefits available to your organization should you face the loss of a department member.
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428 – Missouri National Guard Civil Support Assets: Consequence Management – NEW – CANCELLED
Juan Gallego, Sergeant First Class, Missouri National Guard
This workshop serves as an introduction to the Missouri National Guard's (MOARNG) civil support assets and how it integrates with the Incident Command System (ICS) in support of the local Incident Commander. The MOARNG Civil Support Team (CST), and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives (CBRNE) Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) provide a phased capability and provide mutual support to First Responders during a suspected or actual Weapons of Mass Destruction incident or natural disaster involving hazardous materials. The CST supports civil authorities at a domestic CBRNE incident site by enhancing the ability to detect and identify CBRNE agents/substances, assessing the effects of the agents/substances, advising local authorities on managing the effects of the attack and assisting with the request for other forces (e.g. CERFP, Tech Escort, DNR, DHSS, DOE, MSPHL, etc.) The CERFP provides the ability to locate and extract victims from a contaminated environment, perform medical triage and treatment, and perform mass patient/casualty decontamination.
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429 – Missouri's Residential Sprinkler Mandatory Option Law: What It Means To Your Department – NEW
Steven Gettemeier, Deputy Chief, Florissant Valley FPD
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Jason Webb, Assistant Chief, Belton FD
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Saturday Only: 8:00 a.m. - Noon
During the 2009 legislative session, Missouri lawmakers passed House Bill 103 which requires that all Missouri homebuyers be offered the option of residential sprinklers. We will discuss recommended practices for dealing with questions from both home-builders and buyers. Education is the key to making this effort successful and reducing confusion. Participants will be given access to educational resources as well as answers to questions about how residential sprinklers and this law will affect their local communities. (DFS CEUs 4-Inspector)
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430 – Nursing Home Fires
David A. Hall, Assistant Chief, Springfield FD
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On November 27, 2006, 11 people died in a fire in a group home in Anderson, Missouri. In 1979, 25 died in a board and care facility in Farmington and in 1957, 72 died in a nursing home fire in Warrenton. Most fire departments cover at least one board and care type facility and residents are five times more likely to die in a fire than in a single family home. This class is designed to prepare firefighters for the unique challenges of fighting fires in nursing care facilities and methods to reduce the chances of a tragedy in their community. The class will utilize computer simulation technology to give students the ability to make decisions in a controlled environment. (DFS CEUs 4-Inspector)
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431 – Operations and Placement of Aerial Apparatus – NEW
Michael Wilbur
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Available as a webcast! Click Here
This dynamic workshop is a must for firefighters, fire officers, company chief officers, drivers and engineers. Each rank will derive benefits from this course. Topics covered will be the characteristics and operating features of rear mount platforms and quint apparatus. Special emphasis will be made on truck company placement for various types of occupancies, rescue and life safety strategies and tactical work of quint apparatus. Finally, strategies and tactics will be discussed in the operation of and proper position of aerial and tower ladders and how to successfully deploy both at the scene of a fire.
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432 – Pipeline Awareness For Emergency Responders – NEW
David Zimple, Instructor, Celeritas Technologies
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This workshop will discuss how to initiate emergency response and apply decision making and tactical skills when responding to a hazardous materials pipeline rupture. Application of emergency services response techniques will be applied throughout the scenario-based tabletop exercises. This will be a hands-on seminar where those attending will participate in mock emergency scenarios applying the techniques described above. An after action review will follow, allowing each group to describe their response actions and outcomes.
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433 – Positive Pressure Attack – NEW
John Kriska, Fire Chief, Retired
This class takes an in-depth look at Positive Pressure Attack (PPA) and what is really going on inside a fire building while using this tactic. We discuss simple high school physics (The Ideal Gas Law) and how it is used by PPA to reverse the flow of the products of combustion. By increasing the interior pressure we can force the products of combustion and push them back into the burn area and out of the building. This class will assist you in understanding wind positive pressure, fire positive pressure, mechanical positive pressure and the dangers of reverse positive pressure. In addition, we will cover the relationship between PPA and fire created as well as construction feature openings and how good tactics and strategy can resolve the issue. The message of this class is to use Positive Pressure Attack to change interior high risk areas to lower risk areas thereby creating a safer work environment. This will enhance the chances of saving trapped victims by reducing the time frame it takes to find them.
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434 – Rail Safety For Emergency Responders
Bruce Bjorge, Hazardous Materials Program Manager, MU FRTI
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This workshop is intended to provide "railroad basic training" to anyone who is an emergency responder in jurisdictions with a railroad corridor. This program will introduce responders to a number of safety concerns when responders interface with the railroad industry during an emergency response. Information will be provided on safety issues such as: how to work with a railroad when the emergency occurs involving a train, how to identify which railroad is involved and how to contact that railroad, and familiarization of railroad equipment and paperwork. Most importantly, this workshop stresses how responders can stay safe as we respond to emergencies daily, crossing railroad tracks in our own districts and mutual aid districts, and the safety of our personnel as we work on or near the tracks and railroad equipment.
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435 – Self Contained Breathing Apparatus Survival
Brint Roush, Firefighter/EMT, Columbia FD
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This workshop will present ideas on how to survive hazards encountered in the use of Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA). Topics include what to do if you should run low or out of air, become lost, become entangled, how to get the most out of your air supply and knowing when to call a mayday.
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436 – Strategy and Tactics: Simulations – NEW
David Fischer, Interim Fire Chief, Battlefield FPD
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This workshop is designed to develop the management skills needed by company officers to accomplish assigned tactics at structure fires. A fire simulator and a model city with structures similar to ones in the student's community will be used in this hands on course. Students will establish command, select the appropriate strategic mode based upon consideration of risk/benefit and available resources, determine the appropriate strategy and tactics, and learn how to operate within an appropriate Incident Command System at a fire.
– This class does not qualify for the Fire Officer Certificate Program.
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437 – Surviving the Routine Structure Fire
Steve Arnold, Fire Chief, Retired
Participants in this workshop will learn how to efficiently read smoke and fire conditions with an in-depth look at pre-flashover and backdraft conditions. Also covered is an in-depth look at fire behavior in the five main types of building construction, specifically type V and light weight truss construction. Numerous scenarios with video clips and fire scene photos are presented for class participation and discussion.
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438 – Swiftwater and Flood Rescue
Les Crews, Assistant Chief, Monarch FPD
This workshop introduces fire, police, local and state emergency managers, and other emergency response personnel to the problems and solutions of water rescue encountered during seasonal and flash flooding. Topics include the most common and dangerous errors in river operations and how to mitigate them, specific pre planning, resource evaluation, extended logistics, basic equipment needs, new techniques, training considerations, boat types and handling, use of air resources, and principle low to high risk rescue operations. (EMS CEUs-Division IV-4) (POST 4-Technical)
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439 – Type III Building Construction – NEW
Steven Gettemeier, Deputy Chief, Florissant Valley FPD
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Jason Webb, Assistant Chief, Belton FD
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Saturday Only: 1:30 - 5:30 p.m.
The third in GWF's Building Construction: A Firefighters Perspective series, this course provides firefighters with a new look at an old construction type. Type III is second only to Type V in prevalence throughout Missouri. This construction type presents unique challenges and reacts differently to fire than any other. Arming yourself with this knowledge can help make the difference in protecting these buildings in your community. (DFS CEUs 4-Inspector, 4-Investigator)
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440 – Vehicle Technology and Incident Safety
Alan Braun, Training Officer, Cole County FPD
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This workshop will take you through the safety aspects of a motor vehicle accident. Participants will discuss guidelines to follow from apparatus placement through termination of the incident. Topics include: personnel safety, incident safety, vehicle airbag safety, hybrid vehicles, new car technology, and future concepts of the automotive industry. (POST 4 -Technical, 1-Interpersonal, 1-Legal, 1-Skill.)
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441 – Ventilation To Die For – Or Not
Clyde T. Pfisterer, Battalion Chief, Retired, Indianapolis FD, IN
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This workshop has been developed so you will make the proper fire ground ventilation decisions. Topics that will be revealed in depth are: the burning process, chemical makeup of smoke, wind driven events, smoke without oxygen, and the difference between flameover and flashover. This class exposes the difference between when ventilation is appropriate and when it should be avoided and the reasons why. Actual fire scene materials will be examined and the smoke patterns and forces behind the smoke will be revealed.
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442 – Violence Intervention By Prevention For Emergency Responders
Dennis Jones, Division Chief, Camdenton FD
This workshop has been developed in response to the growing number of incidents at which emergency responders have been exposed to violent patients and violent situations. The objective of this class is to provide awareness and understanding to enable the student to develop an attitude and sense of awareness regarding violent patients and violent situations. This will assist them in avoiding the dangers associated with these types of situations and actions to take should avoidance be impossible. (EMS CEUs-EMT Module IV- Paramedic Division VI-4)
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