Education & Training
FireRescue1’s firefighter education and training topic features information and resources for fire and rescue professionals, including content that supports ongoing professional development and enhances training efforts, whether online, in the classroom or during hand-on training evolutions.
            
            
        
        Instructors and speakers have until Nov. 2, 2025, to submit their proposals
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Do you know how to teach? Rethinking fire service instruction and leadership
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        From checklists to command-post placement, leaders must build the foundation for confident command
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The victim drives the rescue. Your crews’ capabilities dictate the operation.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        What happens when the “always false” alarm turns out to be the real thing? Will you be prepared?
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The Kansas City Fire Department skipped formal after-action reviews after two LODDs, citing trauma and threshold criteria despite guidelines and NFFF’s “always debrief” stance
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        This real-world incident highlights how outdated tools and improvised techniques endanger patients — and why modernization is no longer optional
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Hosted by Roanoke PFFA Local 4084, the hands-on training honed forcible entry, vertical ventilation and VES skills while honoring Capt. Michael Reedy
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        More than 100 volunteers joined police, firefighters, EMS and school staff in Springfield for a full-scale drill designed to test emergency response
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        What firefighters need to know about vehicle weight and rescue struts
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Chiefs John Tippett and John Oates debunk the idea that safety and aggression are mutually exclusive
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The city council awarded nearly $1.1 million to the wife of Kyle Brinker, a Kansas City Fire Department paramedic who died during a training exercise in 2024
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Haverhill city councilors unanimously approved increasing the civil service age cap to expand the hiring pool and address staffing shortages
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        More than 1,600 firefighters weigh in on the perennial debate about whether aggressive tactics and safety culture are mutually exclusive
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        In a two-day joint exercise with Auburn University and emergency agencies, first responders simulated an active shooter scenario to sharpen tactics
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        A grant from the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation funded a hose prop, helping Saco firefighters sharpen skills through hands-on training
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The Flagstaff facility will serve as a regional hub for firefighter training and house the department’s Wildland Fire Management division
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        A Maryland fire captain died after falling into a basement during a 2021 house fire, with investigators citing gaps in size-up, crew integrity, and rapid intervention readiness
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Hear from EMS systems and leaders turning the promise of whole blood into a proven practice for trauma patients
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Loveland Fire Rescue Authority celebrated the grand opening of a new health and wellness center and burn building, facilities designed to support firefighter health and realistic training
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        What I’ve learned the hard way — and what I hope you’ll take to heart as you begin your fire service career
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Hyperventilation syndrome, often triggered by anxiety, presents unique challenges in EMS care. Understanding its nuances is crucial for effective assessment and management.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Anyone can click through slides. Not everyone can teach.
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        A recent multi-agency wildfire training exercise helped Orange County fire and law enforcement teams swiftly contain the Rancho fire in Laguna Beach
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The kind of footage worth studying — and replicating
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        200,000 sticks of DripDrop electrolyte powder to be donated, in partnership with the NVFC
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Members of the FireRescue1 community share their stories, photos and reflections on this iconic Emmitsburg institution
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Digging into the assertion that there needs to be a new search-and-rescue-focused culture in which civilian safety comes first
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        It’s the NFA-adjacent pub where firefighters feel like family
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Preplan response efforts among agencies to effectively navigate ambush, barricade and complex, coordinated attack scenarios
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The best tool we have available to reduce these wrecks is us
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Conquer stressful calls, identify treatment challenges and pitfalls, and use technology to its best potential to save lives this summer and beyond
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Because when that call comes in — when smoke is pouring from a quiet electric sedan or a burning robotaxi — you won’t have time to guess
    
        
    
        
    
        
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