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.