PRECONFERENCE PROGRAM Preconference: 8-hour WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 8:00 AM- 5:00 PM Firehouse Fitness Workshop Richard Meyer, Firefighter, Nashua, NH, Fire Rescue This combination of lecture and hands-on training provides an opportunity to learn new exercises and techniques to perfect your form on fire service-related exercises. Topics covered include: goal setting; fitness assessment and evaluation; program design variables; strength and power; dynamic warmups; flexibility, mobility and conditioning circuits. Proper exercise attire is required. All participants Front Seat Ready – Fire Officer Development Series James McClelland, Captain, Prince George’s County, MD, Fire/EMS Gain the needed skills to make initial incident decisions and manage fire company operations on the fireground through the three-step process “P.P.E.” (Preparation, Performance, Evaluation). Today’s fireground is presenting more challenges and dangers than ever before. Learn the fundamental skills needed to make solid fireground decisions, create fireground discipline and increase fireground effectiveness, which are mission critical in emergency services. ISFSI Principles of Modern Fire Attack Brian Kazmierzak, Battalion Chief, Penn Twp., IN, FD A compilation of all the NIST and UL data and testing including the ISFSI Spartanburg Burns, this class delivers the data, the case studies that support the data and provides SOGs and training materials to take back and institute in your fire department. In addition, the SLICE-RS concept is presented and shown how it can be implemented. No registration fee required. This class is limited to the first 100 registrants. Research, Tactics and Training Robin Zevotek, Research Engineer, Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Firefighter Safety Research Institute Receive a review of key fire dynamics principals and discuss how they can be employed tactically on the fireground. Emphasis is placed on understanding how your actions will impact the fire dynamics within a residential structure. 10 core stability; lower-body strength and power; upper-body must sign a waiver. #FHExpo15 Preconference: 4-hour WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Employing Research Findings in Your Department Josh Waldo, Deputy Fire Chief, Oak Ridge, TN, FD Darryl Kerley, Fire Chief, Oak Ridge, TN, FD Hear how the Oak Ridge Fire Department has demonstrated and implemented the research findings from UL and NIST in their department via successful live burns that have brought the research findings to life in front of all its members. Learn how to successfully re-create this training within your organization regardless if you have an acquired structure, burn tower, or burn cans with minimal cost. In Honor of The Charleston 9: A Study of Change Following Tragedy David Griffin, Captain, Charleston, SC, FD Take an emotional ride from the dark days of fighting fire in Charleston, SC, where nine firefighters perished in the line of duty, to today where the organization is now a national model for change. Based on the best-selling book with the identical name, this course was developed and is presented by the first due driver/ operator on the scene of this multiple line-of-duty-death incident. Taking it to the Streets: Baltimore and Buildings on Fire Christopher Naum, Chief of Training, Command Institute, Washington, DC Start in the classroom and then transition into the streets for a dynamic walking lecture and tour of prominent examples of various buildings including Heritage Construction, Legacy, Conventional to Engineered, and Hybrid structures representing a cross section of residential, commercial, retail, office, business and mixed occupancies. Learn key insights and skills to improve reading the building and identifying inherent predictive characteristics that will influence fireground operations.
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