Eight Hour Interactive Seminar

We respond repeatedly to the same types of emergencies and unfortunately, in time, we tend to consider them routine emergencies. We take it for granted that these responses are nothing to worry about, and we assume that we know what to do and how to stay safe. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. What starts out as a routine response can wind up as a fire or an incident that turns deadly to firefighters or those we protect.

Do you train on how to investigate a smoke odor? Do all of your firefighters know how natural gas can migrate underground and enter a building some distaqnce from the leak? What are the hazards faced at an electrical substation? What must be done to keep everyone safe at a electric manhole fire. A wire has been knocked down by a falling tree limb. What are the hazards? What do you do if you encounter the "white ghost"? Are you prepared to respond to a burst water main or a flooded roof? Are you sure you have conducted a thorough carbon monoxide investigation? If not, the results could be deadly to the occupants. If your fireifghters do not know the how and the why of the hazards faced at these so called 'routine' emergencies, they are at risk.

This seminar will point out the hazards faced and describe the tactics and precautions that will keep everyone safe on your next 'routine' response.

The eight hour format of the seminar allows a comprehensive look at the hazards, tactics and unintended consequences of an inappropriately handled response. Each module starts with a quick quiz allowing the attendees to gauge their level of knowledge focusing them on the modules topic.  All quiz answers are provided in the subsequent lecture.  At the end of each module a scenario is presented to the students and giving them the opportunity to apply what they have learned.  The scenario is reviewed and the students given the opportunity to ask questions related to the quiz, the material covered in the module and the scenario.

The topics covered include electrical, natural gas and oil burner emergencies and fires as well as carbon monoxide emergencies and water leaks.  Each lesson is taught with factual as well as anecdotal information referring to recent and not so recent incidents and ends with a list of tactical warnings and suggestions.

• The electric module includes information on electric substations, both overhead and underground electric, downed wires, transformer fires, manhole explosions and electrical odor investigations.
• The natural gas module includes information on the properties of natural gas and how they affect safety, gas migration, structural and outdoor gas fires, explosive range and how it affects tactics and safety as well as odor of gas investigations.
• The oil burner module includes information on how oil burners work and what can go wrong with them requiring a fire department response.  It explains the hazards and tactics of oil burner incidents including, pulsation, puff-back, after fire, oil burner fires and the white ghost.
• The water leak module covers safety considerations and tactics at burst water mains outdors, as well as structural water leaks. What do you do about a flooded roof? What hazards can a burst water main create and how do you mitigate them? Is shutting off the water all that needs to be done when a pipe bursts in a structure?
• The carbon monoxide module gives an overview of the CO problem including the medical aspects of CO, how carbon monoxide home alarms work and why they may malfunction as well as how to thoroughly and safely investigate a CO call.

This class is well suited for firefighters, company officers as well as for anyone who does not feel they have been sufficiently trained in these types of responses.  The material presented will be used on almost a daily basis as you respond to the typical litany of “routine” responses.  The information presented will keep firefighters safer and help protect civilians and property at these incidents.

This interactive seminar is offered in an eight hour format and can be customized to suite your training needs.

Four Hour Seminar

Unfortunately, firefighters frequently do not recieve instruction on the hazards present or the appropriate tactics needed at "routine" responses. This class highlights the hazards of many of the so called "routine" respnses as well as ways to safely mitigate them. While it does not go into as much detail as the eight hour class nor offer quizes or scenarios it provides an introduction to the hazards faced when responding to these incidents and should serve as an eye opener for your firefighters and officers to dangers they may not be aware of. It contains need to know information that will keep them safe as well as safeguard those we are sworn to protect. The topics can be customized to suit your training needs.

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