Ray McCormack - FDNY Retired

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This class will pass on some of the most important skills lessons needed to be an effective nozzle firefighter. Topics include the nozzle mindset, flowing and moving, base fire extinguishment, proper nozzle grip, dealing with fire behind you, large area nozzle movement, moving in, stream reach vs. nozzle reach, sweeping the floor, multiroom attack, and void control. After taking this class, you will have a 360-degree view of what a well-developed nozzle firefighter needs to know and do on today's fireground.

Josh Miller - New Haven Fire Department

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The Northeast area of the United States is still heavily saturated with balloon frame and post and beam construction. These “old” methods of construction provide multiple areas and avenues for fire spread.  Time and time again we encounter fires in these structures, sometimes it’s just a room but sometimes its fire from the basement to the roof! 

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This program will discuss a lot of different information pertaining to fires in these types of structures.  First and foremost, we will discuss building construction and floor plan layout.  It is imperative to know the design of these buildings, and how and why fire spreads so quickly.  Additionally, these structures are often quite large, and knowing the basic floor plan of these buildings will help the firefighter make key decisions on the fireground.  Knowing the building characteristics beforehand will help the firefighter with everything from the primary search and line placement, to mop up.  

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These buildings are very unique and fighting fires in them are not the same.  We need to know where the fire started and then from there, figure out where it is spreading.   Line placement and search priorities are amongst the most important tasks.  We need to get a line on the fire at its area of origin and a line above the fire.  Drop down is also a real concern, because of the channels and void spaces that fire can travel.  If we are operating in an attic, it’s quite possible it can find its way to the floor below, just like if you have a fire on the second floor, it could find its way to the third.

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There are many different factors about these building that will affect your fire ground tactics.  Front stairs as opposed to rear?  Which front door?  Is it in the attic, is it in the basement or is it in both?  What tools will I need as far as handlines and hand tools?  By attending this class, you will receive a strong understanding of these buildings, how to read them, and how to fight fires

Dan Rinaldi - Providence Fire Department

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This course will cover responding to crashes and fires involving: Electric, Hybrid, Extended Range Electric, CNG, LNG, Propane, Biodiesel, Straight Vegetable Oil and Hydrogen powered vehicles. Crashes and fires at charging stations. How to deal with airbags, seatbelt pretensioners and glass management during crashes, fires and extrications

Frank Leeb - FDNY

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Drawing on his more than two decades of leadership in the FDNY and more than 38 years of career and volunteer firefighting experience, Chief Leeb will deliver real world lesson learned and best practices. Each of the examples presented will be from his personal experience. Chief Leeb will emphasize the importance of the winning mindset, playing to win, training, teamwork, fireground strategy and tactics, large scale emergency response, extinguishment, search and safety cultures and how they coexist for optimal outcomes, problem solving, leadership development, decision making, how process drives outcome, understanding and working with the media, health wellness and cancer in the fire service, improving soft skills, the power of knowing what you don't know, staying learnable and motivating your team. From the chief to the proby, you will leave this presentation motivate and better prepared for any emergency response.

Scott Cushing - Baltimore City Fire Department

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The pinnacle of engine company operations is being able to stretch handlines, and furthermore being able to extend those handlines when needed. Along with just stretching handlines we have to be able to not only operate them, but be able to put them in the right place at the right time. This program is designed to walk students through engine company operations within their department, and understanding the engine company apparatus, it's tactical readiness, and all the small details from shift change all the way to being dispatched on the box alarm. This interactive class also digs deep into the mindset of our tactical positions on arrivals of working fires as the engine company.

Mark Gregory - FDNY

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Rapid Intervention is a concept that is overcomplicated by many. The mission is quite clear, locate the downed firefighter, package them and GET THEM OUT! Time is of the essence and a cache of tools will not always be available.

This program will discuss Rapid Intervention from the onset of the incident to the conclusion.

Factors related Mayday’s will be discussed as well as Rapid Intervention Team Size-up and Deployment Options. Softening of the Structure, Incident Command and RIT Company Officer duties will be reviewed. This lecture is a key component to our practical skills portion.