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.
Capt. John Ceriello’s work brought stairwell pressurization, wind-control devices and high-rise nozzles to the field, eliminating firefighter deaths from wind-driven fires since 2010
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?
Students learned several vehicle-rescue techniques, including how to safely knock out windows and how to properly use the Jaws of Life to remove doors
More firefighter near-miss reports are expected from these facilities with unique hazards to employees and firefighters
A small-town volunteer fire department makes changes to reduce exposure to carcinogens after losing one of its founders to cancer
Weak links negatively impact our ability to properly serve our community as “superior servants”
Graduates could enter the workforce as emergency medical technicians or continue their education in Sinclair’s Fire Academy program
Instructors tout the inaugural program as cost-effective, incorporative of department-specific techniques and convenient for recruits
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski sat down with FireRescue1 to discuss the needs of fire leaders, and how to ensure resources are available for wildfire prevention and disaster relief
Firefighters learned proper maneuvering in a boat, shore-based operations, defensive swimming, victim pickups from the water and how to paddle
Butler County mental health professionals have started countywide crisis intervention training to help first responders handle situations involving suspects with mental illness
Teaching firefighters to overcome the stresses of the job is just as important as hose drills
The trainees will remain employed through June 7
Five Marin firefighters will be working with Firefighters Without Borders California, an organization of professional firefighters and EMS personnel who work to improve global fire operations
By default, many firefighters are prone to pulling a smaller fire hose line, but sometimes a larger diameter is necessary
The previous response plan called for EMS personnel to hold up outside the scene until police had made their response and wait for victims to be brought out
Now that the Moundsville Fire Department has been affected by cancer twice, firefighter Wendi Wentzell-Cuc said their push to evolve is greater than ever
Situated in a long, enclosed tractor-trailer, the simulator is intended to give new recruits experience driving large emergency vehicles without any risk
Consider your department’s staffing, resources and protocols when implementing firefighter training and policy
The course includes classroom work in addition to hands-on training, life-saving skills and practical firefighting skills
With violence against paramedics and fire-rescue personnel becoming more frequent, training must include simulations of responding to “everyday” calls gone wrong
The county will pay $7,600 for Bobby Bohn’s school, and will also pay him to take 1,200 hours of classes, 450 hours of ambulance rides and hospital hours
Firefighter-paramedic Jacob Wiemann recalls when dirty gear and helmets used to be a badge of honor – now he’s reminding firefighters to clean up in order to enjoy retirement
The organizations conducted a study to determine how to reduce the high risk basement fires pose to firefighters due to high heat and high velocity fire gases
Dallas Fire-Rescue was conducting a training exercise near the Trinity River when they noticed the body floating in the water nearby
The Eli Staton Memorial Scholarship will cover the nearly $5,000 paramedic school tuition for one firefighter-EMT
The New Frontier Emergency Medicine event brings together physicians, nurses and EMS providers to learn the latest in emergency care