Fire Training

Dates: April 21 & 28, 2025
Time: 1830 - 2130 each night
Instructor: John Gilmore, NYS SFI
Description: The modern Fire Behavior course is designed to address the cognitive knowledge aspect of NFPA 1403's new competencies and has been titled in line with today’s industry terminology. When NFPA last updated its Conducting Live Fire Training standard, several “Modern Fire Behavior” competencies were added to the original eleven. The course utilizes those required training topics as its road map and attempts to better prepare firefighters for the fire behavior they encounter today.
Audience: Line Offciers, Training Officers, Safety Officers, Firefighters
Pre-requisites: FF1 or equivalent
Registration: MUST be done on the Acadis OFPC Training portal - preregister here: MODERN FIRE BEHAVIOR

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Date: April 19, 2025 - 0830-1630hrs
Description: This will be an 8 hour refresher training of Interior Fire Operations Units 12 & 13 - Structural Fire
Pre-requisites: FF1 or equivalent
Pre-registration: MUST be done on the Acadis OFPC Training portal - preregister here: IFO REFRESHER
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Date: April 22 - 1800-2200
Instructor: Melvin Harrington, NYS OFPC SFI
Description: Provides information about the hazards of the alternate fuels, such as ethanol, E85, compressed natural gas, liquified natural gas and propane. The course also discusses battery powered, hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Safety information on hazards that may be present at incidents involving an alternative fueled vehicle is also presented. The second portion of the program deals with the changing technology of the automobile, including vehicle safety standards and vehicle features. Intended to provide new information for those students who may have completed vehicle rescue training in the past and have a need to update information about changes to newer vehicles.
Pre-requisites: NONE
Pre-registration: MUST be done on the Acadis OFPC Training portal - preregister here: ALT FUEL VEHICLES
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Dates: May 21, 22, 28, 29 - 1800-2200 each night
Instructor: James Shine, NYS OFPC HazMat Bureau
Description: Provides the hazardous materials incident commander with the skills necessary to successfully and safely manage the incident. Includes the need for an organized approach to managing hazardous materials incidents, the required elements for an employer’s emergency response plan, site-specific pre-incident emergency planning, incident analysis and the development of site safety plans, strategic goals for hazardous materials incidents, and developing a plan of action and its application and tactical objective to accomplish the strategic goals. This course meets the requirements of OSHA 1910.120 and NFPA 470 Chapters 12 and 13. It is designed for the Operations level officer who will have overall incident command.
Pre-requisites: HMFRO, NIMS 100, NIMS 200
Pre-registration: MUST be done on the Acadis OFPC Training portal - preregister here: HAZMAT IC
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Date: Available any time - 6 hours in length
Description: This course discusses the legal authority, and who has the responsibility, to conduct fire investigations. Students learn about fire scene security and their role in the identification and preservation of evidence potentially relevant to a fire investigation. Participants are provided an overview of the fire investigation process to assist in meeting requirements of General Municipal Law § 204d, and so they can recognize instances where a certified fire investigator should be requested.
Pre-requisites: NONE
Registration: MUST be done on the Acadis OFPC Training portal - preregister here:: FILO If you have difficulty preregistering or are not registered on the Acadis website, the Acadis homepage can be found here: ENVISAGE Acadis®. The homepage has all the tools for forgotten passwords, new registrations, and much more.

Dates: April 29, May 1, 12, 14 - 7p-10p each night
Instructor: Melvin Harrington, NYS SFI
Description: This course introduces the student to the special characteristics and considerations of Lightweight Wood Construction. Topics such as manufacturing methods, component awareness, fire performance, and strategies & tactics pertaining to fires involving lightweight wood construction will be examined. Primary emphasis is on improving fire personnel’s ability to recognize the presence of lightweight wood construction and the hazards related with it. Course material enables the
student to recognize the dangers, operate safely and better predict the overall reaction of a building during fire conditions.
Pre-requisites: BEFO or equivalent
Registration: MUST be done on the Acadis OFPC Training portal - preregister here: LIGHTWEIGHT If you have difficulty preregistering or are not registered on the Acadis website, the Acadis homepage can be found here: ENVISAGE Acadis®. The homepage has all the tools for forgotten passwords, new registrations, and much more.

Dates: Starts May 13th, Tuesdays, 6p-10p each night
Instructor: Ron Wamsley, NYS SFI
Description: Offers knowledge and skills essential to pump operation. Based on objectives from National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), Fire Apparatus Driver/Operator, Chapter 3, this course includes responsibilities of pump operators, hydraulics and friction loss, pump controls and accessories, fire streams, pumper practices, pumping from draft and pump evolutions, and using the fire pump at the fire hydrant.
Pre-requisites: None
Pre-registration: MUST be done on the Acadis OFPC Training portal - preregister here: AOPUMP If you have difficulty preregistering or are not registered on the Acadis website, the Acadis homepage can be found here: ENVISAGE Acadis®. The homepage has all the tools for forgotten passwords, new registrations, and much more.

Date: April 24, 2025, 1830 hours
Instructor: John Gilmore, NYS SFI
Description: Occupational cancer due to firefighting is a silent killer- Firefighters face a 9% increase in cancer diagnoses and a 14% increase in cancer related deaths. Unlike many tragic events that take firefighters lives, many firefighters are dying due to firefighting related cancers. Unfortunately, many of these deaths often go unnoticed. Learn how to take steps to help prevent these deaths from occurring. The New York State Office of Fire Prevention and Control has announced a major initiative to help protect its staff, New York State’s firefighters and their families from the occupational threat of cancer. The initiative is a combination of awareness and education about the cancer threat with actions and policies that reduce the threat.
This training session will teach you how to: • Reduce our levels of contamination after firefighting fire • Recognize the spread of contamination • Recognize the signs of cancer • Understand the importance of annual physicals, and what the health care provider should know about firefighters’ occupational risks • Learn how to preform post fire gross decontamination • Learn steps to prevent cross contamination to protect yourself and your family and friends

Prerequisites: None

Pre-registration:  MUST be done on the Acadis OFPC Training portal - preregister here: CANCER If you have difficulty preregistering or are not registered on the Acadis website, the Acadis homepage can be found here: ENVISAGE Acadis®. The homepage has all the tools for forgotten passwords, new registrations, and much more.