A new software system that allows training officers in Fire and EMS departments to create classes or tests and seamlessly make them available on the web is now available. The licensed software product offered by Washington based FireCoTraining.com, Inc. includes an easy to use “online” presentation and test builder, department messaging and communications system, automated training history and reporting tools that increase effeciency and cut down on the time spent both in the classroom and doing follow up paperwork.
Training officers seem to agree, firefighters are much more interested in live fire exercises and drills then they are in lecture and class time. This comes as no surprise, still there is a tremendous amount of information that has to be presented and mastered in order to be effective and in compliance these days. The mix of career, shift work, and volunteer personnel doesn’t make it any easier to get everyone through classes and keep them up to date.
Patrick Merlino, VP with FireCoTraining.com, Inc. said, “Our system allows the training officer to assign classes and tests to their personnel to be completed either on computers in station or at home. Lectures, previously needing to be taught repeatedly due to shift work, absentees, and outlying station locations, as well as the follow up and manual record keeping, are no long necessary. It is now possible to assign a class and test to be taken online and have the grading and training record automatically documented. Taking an online class and passing the test covering the material can become the ticket for entry to that day’s live fire exercise.”
FireCoTraining software was designed to be easy to use, with point and click, fill in the blank, and select the template approaches to creating classes, tests and retrieving training histories. Both a demo and the licensed product are available at FireCoTraining.com.