Fire Training

Dates: March 31, April 7, 14, 22, 28, May 2, 9, 12. Weeknights start at 1830 hours, Saturdays 0900
Instructor: Mark Degraw, NYS OFPC SFI
Description: Designed to follow the NFPA 1002 (2017 edition) Fire Apparatus Driver/ Operator Professional Qualifications, provides the student with knowledge necessary to operate, inspect and maintain aerial devices. Course content includes emergency vehicle operations review, classification and typing, vehicle inspection, operation of various types of aerial devices including platforms and ladders, proper location of placement and setup at an incident including spotting and stabilizing. Fire departments must possess an aerial device to offer this program enabling students to fully operate this device.
Pre-requisites: BEFO or equivalent, TAL from Chief
Pre-registration: MUST be done on the Acadis OFPC Training portal - preregister here: AO - Aerial 

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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

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East Branch - 4/20 - 1830 hrs - Pre-register Here

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Dates: March 30, 1830 hrs
Instructor: David O. Simmons, NYS SFI
Description: This course provides an overview of water safety and rescue issues including: hazard assessment, responder safety, risk management, hypothermia, near-drowning, basic water search techniques, basic shorebased rescue techniques, incident management issues, and water rescue equipment.
Pre-registration can be done through this link: Water Rescue
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Dates: 4/8, 15, 22, 29, 5/6; 1830 hrs each night
Instructor: David O. Simmons, NYS SFI
Description: This course will provide fire and emergency medical services department personnel and other related emergency responders with the aptitudes and abilities necessary to manage the duties and responsibilities of the Health and Safety ProgramManager (HSPM) within their respective organizations.
Pre-registration can be done through this link: NFA HSPM

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Dates: 4/21, 28, 5/5, 12, 19, 6/2, 9, 16; 1830 hours each night
Instructor: David O. Simmons, NYS SFI
Description: Rescue Technician - Basic provides a base from which to prepare students for a wide variety of possible rescue
operations. This course includes an overview in areas of specialized rescue, search, technical rescue management, risks and priorities; use of ropes, knots, and rope systems in a low angle environment, and establishment of landing zones for helicopter operations. Demonstrations, practice sessions and testing are included.
Pre-requisites: NONE
Preregistration can be done through this link: RTB FTC

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Date: April 18, 0800 hours
Instructor: Joe Bink, NYS Forest Ranger
Description: Developed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Basic Wildland Search Skills Course teaches the most basic skills needed to conduct searches in the wildland environment. Topics covered in this course include, basic search organization (Incident Command System), communications, search techniques, attitude, and safety. This course concludes with a field exercise to practice the type 3 search technique (grid search) discussed in the classroom. Graduates of this course will receive a “Green Card” which will identify them as having successfully completed this course. This course is also a prerequisite to other more advanced search courses offered by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Preregistration: can be done through this link: BWSS

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Dates: August 24, 31, September 1, 3, 24
Instructor: Melvin Harrington, NYS SFI
Description: Basic Passenger Vehicle Rescue (BPVR) provides education and training in passenger vehicle rescue. The program covers Awareness and Operations Level requirements of the NFPA 1006, Chapter 8 Common Passenger Vehicle Rescue. Educational topics include; scene safety, vehicle design, construction and terminology, tools and equipment, incident action plan application and scene management. Skills training involves vehicle stabilization, victim access, care and disentanglement techniques.
Pre-registration: can be done through this link: BVPR

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