WHEN: Friday, June 24 – Saturday, June 25, 2022 WHERE: Embassy Suites by Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista Resort | Orlando, Florida PURPOSE: This event will provide an opportunity to participate in valuable classroom training and share ideas and best practices with emergency responders from across the U.S. Attendees will have their choice of breakout […]
Benefits of Live Online Training from the National Fire Academy
The NFA suspended its on-campus and field courses in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By June 2020, the NFA and our partners from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives launched the first online instructor-led live 2-day course, “Fire Investigation: First Responders,” using the Zoom video conferencing app. Additional courses not requiring […]
NVFC Launches FREE Online Training for Pipeline Incidents
Does your department serve a community that contains pipelines? If so, your personnel need to be prepared for pipeline incident response. The NVFC has launched a new online course funded in part by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to help volunteer responders increase their operational preparedness, readiness, and awareness of pipeline hazards so […]
Register Now for the NVFC Health & Safety Training Summit
Registration is now open for the National Volunteer Fire Council’s (NVFC) 2022 Health & Safety Training Summit. The Summit will take place Friday, June 24, and Saturday, June 25, in Orlando, FL. The conference is open to all volunteer firefighters, EMS providers, department leadership, and other fire department personnel from across the United States. Click […]
UL’s Fire Safety Research Institute has released New Hose Stream Prop and Hands-on training toolkit
UL’s Fire Safety Research Institute (FSRI) has released an all-new hands-on training toolkit focused on hose stream mechanics, giving fire departments an innovative new way to put research into practice. This toolkit is designed to facilitate realistic training and includes all the information needed to construct and utilize FSRI’s Hose Stream Prop – everything from […]
New FSRI Online Training Addresses Coordination of Suppression and Ventilation in Multi-Family Dwellings
The new “Analysis of the Coordination of Suppression and Ventilation in Multi-Family Dwellings” online training course is now available via the FSRI Fire Safety Academy. This online course examines the findings from the multi-family dwelling experiments and resulting tactical considerations in the context of coordinating suppression and ventilation tactics on the fireground. These experiments were […]