2011 State Weekend Course Offerings
NEW OFFERING – W457 – Decision Making for Initial Company Operations (DMICO) This course is designed to help company officers develop the decision making skills needed to accomplish assigned tactics at structure fires. As a company officer with the real possibility of being the first to arrive at incident, initial decisions will have an impact throughout the entire incident. It is vital that the company officer be able to make good management decisions that have a favorable impact on the outcome. In addition to a possible role as the initial incident commander, the company officer may be assigned a subordinate position within the ICS organization. Company officers need to have a clear understanding of the system, the position assigned and their role in the organization if they are to function effectively and help make the system work. All activities and scenarios used in this course are based on structure fires. Audience: This course was specifically designed for newly appointed company officers but is also an excellent review for experienced officers and firefighters who may have acting company officer responsibilities and firefighters who want to become company officers.
NEW OFFERING – P146 – Emergency Medical Services Management and Administration for Company Officers (EMS MACO) This course focuses on supervisory management practices for EMS response agencies. Leadership/management planning and time management, team building, personnel and resource management, communications and public relations are some of the components covered in this new course. Materials and learning will be through a combination of online precourse materials and classroom activities. Upon completion, the student will have the basic skills and tools needed to effectively manage the daily activities of an EMS system. Audience: Individuals with first-line supervisory responsibility for an EMS response system on a daily or shift basis and personnel who are acting/temporary, intermittent or promotable to first-line supervisory responsibility for an EMS response system. (E.g. Company officer, Sergeant, Shift/Field Supervisor, etc.) Class is limited to 25 students.
W803 – Leadership I: Strategies for Company Success (LS-I)
This course is designed to meet the needs of the company officer, this course provides the students with the basic skills and tools needed to perform effectively as a leader in the fire service environment. This course addresses techniques and approaches to problem-solving, identifying and assessing the needs of the officer’s subordinates, effectively running meetings, and decision making for the company officer. Audience: Fire company officers and unit commanders responsible for supervising personnel or managing programs or projects.
W290 – Training Operations in Small Departments (TOSD)
This is a 2-day course designed to provide students with some basic tools and skills to coordinate training in a small fire/EMS organization. Course content includes: leadership issues in fire service training; legal issues affecting the training function including an understanding of a standard of care, and the impact of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards; safety considerations in training; marketing training internally; justification of training needs; selection and evaluation of training curriculum and materials from outside sources; and effective delivery and evaluation of training. Audience: Fire and rescue personnel who coordinate training in small departments; volunteer firefighters and officers who instruct in small fire and rescue departments; fire personnel serving on training committees; and training officers in volunteer fire departments. Note: students who have taken NFA’s Challenges for Local Training Officers through the Volunteer Incentive
Program are not encouraged to take NFA’s Training Operations in Small Departments.
W209 – Courtroom Preparation and Testimony for First Responders (CPTFR) The intent of this course is to prepare all emergency responders, with emphasis on volunteer firefighters, to present information to the legal system. The course will emphasize the importance of reporting factual events. It also will address the need to improve report-writing skills after witnessing an event, and oral presentation skills if asked to describe the event in a court of law. Audience: All interested emergency services personnel including volunteer, career and allied professions interested in controlling the arson problem.
W271 – Fire Prevention for First Responders and Small Departments (FPSD) This inspirational course stresses awareness, advocacy and motivational content needed by those who traditionally have been focused on operations (suppression, EMS, etc.) and who seek to learn new and successful approaches appropriate for communities of all sizes, but most especially America’s smaller communities. The course focuses on identifying exciting and highly successful tools and approaches for addressing the total fire protection challenge via lessons learned in other communities, resources available, and the means and value of building partnerships and coalitions. Students will come away empowered to make change and thus build departments that are more effective at serving both customers and members by learning how to manage the fire prevention function better. Audience: Leaders, both today’s and tomorrow’s, in the nation’s smaller departments.
W458 – Preparation for Initial Company Operations (PICO)
The objective of this course is to develop a better understanding of the role and responsibilities of a company officer in preparing the company for incident operations. The course is designed for company officers, acting company officers, and senior firefighters responsible for the management of a single fire company at an emergency incident, and those officers who are responsible for company readiness, personnel safety and leadership as it relates to company operation. Audience: Company officers, acting officers or senior firefighters who command a fire company during emergency operations and those officers who are responsible for maintaining skills and company readiness.
W612 – Command and Control of Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Operations for Structural Chief Officers (CCWUIFOSCO) This course provides the basic information to enable an officer in charge of multiple units to provide for safe and effective operations at a wildland/urban interface incident. It is designed to provide the student with the essential tools and skills to operate safely in this type of incident. Course content covers interface incidents, fire behavior, safety and operational considerations. Audience: Chief or company officers who may have command responsibility for multiple resources at the scene of a wildland/urban interface incident.
W315 – Introduction to Unified Command for Multiagency and Catastrophic Incidents (IUCMCI) This course is designed for those officers who would function in a command or general staff position during a multiagency operation. Lectures and activities are designed to promote a better understanding of the requirements of a unified command organization and the skills necessary to operate effectively at complex incidents. Prerequisites for this course are ICS-100 and ICS-200 level training. Preferred courses are Q462 and Q463 available through NFA online at www.nfaonline.dhs.gov. The chief’s signature attests that the applicant has completed this required training.
Audience: Officers who have command responsibilities, are upwardly mobile and act in the position of a command officer. This is also for any officer, regardless of title, who would function in a command or general staff position during a unified command operation and those officers who are initially responsible for setting up the incident command organization.
W517 – Executive Skills Series: Managing and Leading Change (ESS: MLC) Students will be introduced to a four-step model for managing change effectively. Activities include analysis, planning, implementation and evaluation. The same model will be used to examine the executive role of leading change. A variety of activities and simulations will apply theories to contemporary issues that executive officers experience daily.
Audience: Chief of department or equivalent; chief officers who head major bureaus or functions within a department (e.g. suppression, prevention, training, EMS, etc); and battalion-level officers of International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) designated "metro-size" department.
W730 – Health & Safety Officer (HSO) (Revised)
This course examines the Health and Safety Officer’s role in identifying, evaluating and implementing policies and procedures that affect health and safety aspects for emergency responders. Risk analysis, wellness issues and other occupational safety issues will be the main emphases of this course. Audience: Individuals who have department-level health and safety responsibilities. Persons attending this course should have a working knowledge of the Incident Command System as taught by the National Fire Academy, applicable NFPA and OSHA requirements and
recommendations, and authority to set policy for the department on such issues.
W626 – Juvenile Firesetter Intervention Specialist I (JFIS I) The goal of this course is to provide the skills and tools necessary to become a Juvenile Firesetter Intervention Specialist I. The class will address NFPA 1035 Chapter 9, Juvenile Firesetter Intervention Specialist I, including Introduction, Primary Prevention, Identification and Intake, Who
Sets Fires and Why, and Interviewing and Intervention Strategies. The student will learn to conduct an interview with firesetters and their families using prepared forms and guidelines. Based on recommended practice, students may determine the need for referral for counseling
and/or implement educational intervention strategies to mitigate effects of firesetting behavior. Audience: Individuals who have responsibilities related to juvenile firesetting intervention, interviewing and prevention. The target audience includes practitioners who interact with children
who are involved in firesetting and/or arson behavior and their families. In addition to the fire service, professionals from a myriad of fields including mental health, law enforcement, education, counseling services, and social services can benefit from this training.
W276 – Preventing Fire Risk Based On Socioeconomic Factors: Rural and Urban Settings (PFRBSF: RUS) The course is designed for students who work in the field of prevention. Students learn to focus on
the social and economic factors that contribute to high fire incidence among populations in rural and urban areas. Values, attitudes, and behaviors as well as social and economic characteristics
will be evaluated. Course content includes: how social and economic factors play a significant role in high incidence of fire, fire deaths and fire injuries; attitudes, values and behaviors of populations
at high risk for fire; the role of poverty and low education levels in fire deaths; reaching into neighborhoods to create change for populations that are at high risk for fire; and program issues for high-risk groups in rural and urban settings. Audience: Persons serving on local or state prevention committees; prevention personnel in local organizations; persons teaching safety programs within the community; fire marshals, inspectors and public educators; emergency medical services personnel who coordinate community lifesupport programs; and local school teachers or Sunday school teachers who teach safety in the
community. Registration All programs are open to all applicants.
Enrollment in each program is limited to 30 students, unless otherwise noted; therefore, early registration is recommended. Submit registrations to the South Carolina Fire Academy no later than June 24, 2011. Forms received after that date may not be processed. Be sure to list three course choices. The cost for the weekend is $70 and includes dinner on Friday night, three meals on Saturday, including an evening
cookout and social, breakfast and lunch on Sunday, and a souvenir shirt.
Use the NFA Student Registration Form included with this brochure.
Be sure to send the form to
the South Carolina Fire Academy, 141 Monticello Trail, Columbia, South Carolina 29203.
Don’t forget to indicate your shirt size on the bottom of the registration form. It is the policy of the National Fire Academy that persons who fail to attend class and have not canceled their enrollment will be suspended from attending NFA courses for a period of two years.
Travel Arrangements
Students make their own travel arrangements. Driving time is typically eight to 10 hours from S.C. Transportation costs are the responsibility of the student or his/her organization and will not be reimbursed by the National Fire Academy or the S.C. Fire Academy. Be sure to arrive by 6 p.m. on Friday to check into the dormitory and attend the orientation session at 7 p.m. Air travel can be arranged to either Washington National Airport or Baltimore-Washington International Airport. You will be responsible for providing your own transportation to NFA if you
wish to fly. Itinerary of Events Orientation will be held on Friday evening at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of Building "J". Immediately after the orientation a social will be held in the Command Post Pub, where shirts will be
distributed. This is a great opportunity to relax, unwind and get to know your brothers and sisters from both states.
Classes will begin at 8 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Classes will dismiss at approximately 5 p.m. on Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday. Classes will be held in Building "J". On Saturday afternoon a joint memorial service will be held at the National Fallen Firefighters
Memorial. This brief ceremony begins at approximately 5:15 p.m. and will honor the fallen firefighters from each state. In the event of inclement weather the service will be moved to the campus chapel. Following the memorial service a cookout will be held at the Log Cabin on Tom’s Creek. This cookout is another opportunity for the attendees to join together in fellowship.
NO ALCOHOL, FIREARMS OR WEAPONS OF ANY SORT ARE ALLOWED ON THE NETC CAMPUS.
Driving Directions to the NFA
Via Interstate 95 Via Interstate 77
I-95 N to I-395 I-77 N to I-81 N near Wytheville, VA
I-395 N to I-495 N I-81 N to PA-16 toward Waynesboro PA
I-495 N to I-270 N PA-16 changes to MD-140
I-270 N becomes US-40 W Turn right at traffic light onto S. Seton Ave
US-40 W becomes US-15 N Turn left into NETC/NFA campus
US-40 W becomes US-15 N
US-15 N through Thurmont to
S. Seton Ave.
Turn left onto S. Seton Ave. (MD-140)
Turn right into NETC/NFA campus
If you have questions or need further information or directions, contact:
A.J. Esposito
Certification & Accreditation Supervisor
(803) 896-9881
Email: esposito@llr.sc.gov |
