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Firefighters, Aspiring Officer’s, Safety Officer’s, Company Officers, Chief Officers & Chiefs!!!
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February 1ST, 2012
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Refreshments & Lunch Included
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Topics:
(FS101) - “Fireground Responsibility” – Chief Salka Saturday, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Across the country we have all come to recognize that the high level of firefighter death and injury is unacceptable. The question always asked is,”Who is responsible?” Chief Salka will take a hard hitting look at the cause of actual incidents so that we can all learn the role we play in our own safety. This seminar will deeply examine several actual recent firefighter line-of-duty deaths with a focus on what the “real” factors were that contributed to the death. The contributing factors and the responsibility for the firefighter’s death rest with several people including the firefighter himself, the company
officer and the chief or incident commander. We are all trying to reduce firefighter injuries and deaths, so we must take an honest look at these operations and find out what we are doing wrong to learn how we can increase the safety and survival of our firefighters
(FS102) “The Company Officer Academy” – Chief Salka Saturday, 1:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
This program is aimed at current and future company officers. An emphasis is made on the basics of leadership and preparation in every aspect of the company officer’s role. Making assignments, proper care and use of company tools, safe apparatus response, apparatus positioning, engine company duties, ladder company duties, communications and post fire operations are all covered with an emphasis on the company officer’s responsibility to the team.
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Sunday Workshops
(FS103) “Why Aren’t The Numbers Going Down?” – Chief Lasky Sunday, 8:00 a.m.- 9:30 a.m.
Each year agencies such as the NFPA, NIOSH, USFA, along with several others, publish documents describing the Line Of Duty Deaths (LODD) and injuries suffered by firefighters for the previous year. And each year talented fire service instructors and fire academies across North America, host seminars and conduct training all in an effort to reduce the amount of injuries and fatalities. With all of this great work, why aren’t the numbers going down? This session takes a hard look at the causes for those losses and discusses the realistic steps necessary to finally begin to make a difference and ensure that every firefighter goes home, safely to their families.
(FS104) “Managing the MAYDAY” Chief Lasky Sunday, 9:45 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.
One of the most difficult incidents to manage is one in which our members become trapped, lost, or injured. This presentation discusses how firefighters get into trouble at incidents and the necessary steps to get personnel back to safety. Accountability systems, incident command strategies, and scene control will be analyzed and discussed. For all fire officers at every level who could be involved in managing a MAYDAY, as well as firefighters who could be confronted with the “unthinkable.”
(FS105) “Fireground Scenario Workshop” Chief Lasky Sunday, 1:15 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
This program is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for firefighters, company officers, and chiefs to experience a number of different types of structural fires. Examine fires in private dwellings, commercial buildings, apartment houses, and office buildings. Whatever your experience level is, you will certainly see something you have never seen before in this workshop. During the fire scenarios, the tactics, strategies and other factors will be analyzed and discussed. Students will have an opportunity to comment on what is happening in the scenario and how they might handle a similar situation in their own department. This will be an interesting, fast-moving, and entertaining program that you don’t want to miss.
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Instructor Bios:
Battalion Chief John Salka is a 31 year veteran with the FDNY and is the battalion commander of the 18th battalion in the Bronx. He is a nationally known lecturer and seminar presenter and has presented at the Firehouse Expo in Baltimore, the FDIC in Indianapolis, the NY State Association of Fire Chiefs show and many other venues. He is the author of “First In Last Out Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department” and “The Engine Company” which was published in early 2009. He received the 2001 FDIC Training Achievement Award for his Get Out Alive firefighter survival training program and travels extensively training firefighters throughout the 50 states in tactics, strategy, leadership and safety& survival.
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Rick Lasky, a 30-year veteran of the fire service, served as chief of the Lewisville (TX) Fire Department. Rick began his career as a firefighter in the suburbs on the southwest side of Chicago and while in Illinois received the 1996 International Society of Fire Service Instructors “Innovator of the Year” award for his part in developing the “Saving Our Own” program. He served as the co-lead instructor for the H.O.T. Firefighter Survival program at FDIC for over 10 years and is an editorial advisory board member of Fire Engineering Magazine and also serves on the FDIC advisory board. Rick contributes monthly to Fire Engineering’s Roundtable column, is the author of both the “Pride and Ownership-A Firefighter’s Love of the Job” leadership series featured in Fire Engineering Magazine and the best-selling book published by PennWell Books, as well as the co-host for the radio show “The Command Post” heard on Fire Engineering Talk Radio.
