LIVE FIRE PROGRAMS
NFPA 1010 Fire Academy
Our NFPA 1010 Fire Academy meets and exceeds the JPRs for FF1 & 2 as well as Hazmat Awareness & Operations. Our academy aims to prepare students for the realities of the fire service and the duties of firefighting. Our program offers an in depth, highly demanding, and comprehensive program to guarantee your cadets are ready to serve your community upon graduation.
Engine Company Bootcamp
Our Engine Company Bootcamp is a proven program that focuses on the core roles and functions of the first arriving engine company to a working fire. This 24 Hour program covers 3 days and is designed to maximize skills proficency.
Truck Company Bootcamp
Our Truck Company Bootcamp is a new program for 2025. Building off the proven foundation of our Engine Company Bootcamp, that course focuses on the core roles and functions of the first arriving truck company to a working fire. This 24 Hour program covers 3 days and is designed to maximize skills proficency.
Search & Rescue Bootcamp
Our Search & Rescue Bootcamp digs deep on the nuts and bolts of victim rescue. Packaging and drag techniques, crib dumps, targeted searches, and the Firefighter Rescue Survey are just a few of the many areas covered in this program as well as SCBA function and mask up drills. This course aims to save lives on the firegrounds of 2024 and beyond.
Live Fire Behavior Lab
Our Live Fire Behavior Lab is just that. Multiple days of live fire evolutions with a variety of fuel load configurations and flow path dynamics as we discuss flow path, thermal layering, modern fuel loads and building construction considerations, reading fire behavior and conditions. Students will also learn how to read fire utilizing modern thermal imaging cameras.
Working Fire Operations Bootcamp
Our Working Fire Operations Bootcamp is a new offering for 2025. This program is a combination of classroom and hands on live fire evolutions. It is completely scenario driven and is designed to prepare all fireground roles for their duties at a working structure fire. It covers all roles from Command Officer to Tailboard Firefighter. This 50 Hour program covers 5 days and is designed to prepare companies to respond to today's dynamic, fast paced, victim heavy firegrounds
Live Fire Instructor Bootcamp
Our Live Fire Instructor Bootcamp is a new program for 2025. This program is designed to aid instructors in what and how they should be teaching in conjunction with NFPA 1010 and NFPA 1400/1403. Specifically covering Fire Behavior, Fire Dynamics, Thermography, Modern Fuel Loads, Hostile Fire Events, Training Evolution IAP Creation, Fire Suppression Techniques, Instructional Techniques, Fuel Package Preparation, Ignitions Officer Roles, and much much more. This 50 hour program covers 5 days and will add value for years to come to your instructors teaching evolutions.
Can Confidence
"The Can, CAN!"
The can, the silver bullet, the 2.5gal water extinguisher. Whatever you call it, we've all got it. But rarely do we utilize this tool to its true potential. In this course we will master the wonderful world of the 2.5gal water can under live fire conditions. You will leave with a new appreciation for this mainstay of the American fire service.
Truckin' Off The Box
Fire based EMS is more and more common in modern America. As run loads increase and resources are stretched thinner every passing year, your firefighters are in a race against time. When the lives of your citizens hang in the balance and the first due engine is still 5 minutes out, your firefighters need to be prepared to save lives in the worst of circumstances. In this class students will learn to do more, with less, maximizing the limited firefighting resources found on many of today's medic units. This class will equip your firefighters to excel for your citizens
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
Nozzleman Boot Camp
Hoseline deployment. The fundamental core skill of the fire service, however often overlooked and neglected on the drill ground. Our comprehensive Nozzlemans Boot Camp is designed to master a variety of hoseloads and their deployments as well as flowing and advancing charged hoselines for low / under staffed companies. We will dig deep into hoseloads and stretches, hose handling techniques, hose construction, smoothbore vs fog nozzle, low pressure vs high pressure hose, as well as small and medium diameter attack hoses.
Rural Water Supply Operations
The meat and potatoes of the rural fireground is water supply. We all carry hard suction, strainers, and drop tanks but in depth training for large water scenarios is often an after thought. Prepare your team for large fire incidents before the tones sound and arrive ready for the fight!
Pump Operations For The FAO
Veteran firefighters know that the FAO/DO role is far more than just driving the truck. Complex fire incidents call for knowledgeable apparatus operators. Are you prepared for incidents like primer failure, advanced operations like relay pumping, or how to maximizing your rig's pump potential to supply an aerial and multiple hand lines. This in depth course is designed to take you from driver to engineer and prepare you to operate in the most important position on the modern firegrounds of 2024 and beyond.
Search & Rescue Fundamentals
Life over property, victim rescue is the mission above all else. We must be searching every fire, every time, our citizens are counting on us to do this thoroughly and proficiently for THEM.
This course covers targeted, oriented, and wide area searches, as well as VEIS techniques. When time is of the essence, we must be searching at the top of our game. Training creates experience, experience creates judgement. Lets prepare our firefighters for success and our citizens for survival. If we continue to tell them we will come for them, we must be training to execute on that promise.
Vertical Ventilation & Sawmans' Academy
Our Vertical Ventilation & Sawman's Academy was created to prepare low staffed departments to tackle vertical ventilation tasks on the fireground. From ground ladders to the aerial, vent saws to K12s, this class covers the use of saws as well as their operation and maintenance.
Firefighter Survival
As important as RIT and RIC assignments and training are, we all know that the data from the fireground says it is the firefighter calling the mayday or adjacent companies who typically effect the rescue. As such our Firefighter Survival program hits hard on the basics to develop muscle memory and remove old training scars and create new, good habits that will rise to the top under duress, keeping your firefighters safer.
Modern Vehicle Extrication
MVCs are more common than ever, no district is immune from this incident type. With new hazards like EV and Alternative Fuels, new metals like high strength boron steel, and new technology like autonomous self-driving responders now, need more than ever to be prepared for the variety of makes and models on the roadway today. Our modern vehicle extrication program will create confidence among your firefighters when responding to these type of incidents.
All Irons Forcible Entry
The favorite of every firefighter, Forcible Entry. Our conventional all irons Forcible Entry program digs deep to master the basics and provides students the opportunity for dozens of reps on inward and outward, lefthand and righthand doors. Each student leaves the program highly proficient in 1 and 2 man traditional forcible entry techniques and ready to tackle the fireground. We proudly feature Side Charlie Custom Fire Tools premium halligan bars, and Fire Maul Tools premium axes and mauls in our forcible entry training. We also are proud to exclusively use Woods Forcible Entry Doors for our training, we believe these doors offer the most realistic forcible entry training experience possible.