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The Training And Education of Firefighters

The Training And Education of Firefighters. The Past is Prologue. State Board of Fire Services. SB 1805 State Board of Fire Services AB 456 CFSTES. The Foundation of Fire Protection. Code Enforcement. Operations. A Firefighter may be of Many breeds – Wildand Structural

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The Training And Education of Firefighters

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  1. The Training And Education of Firefighters

  2. The Past is Prologue

  3. State Board of Fire Services SB 1805 State Board of Fire Services AB 456 CFSTES

  4. The Foundation of Fire Protection

  5. Code Enforcement

  6. Operations

  7. A Firefighter may be of Many breeds – Wildand Structural Airport -------------

  8. Demographics • 58 Counties • 950 plus fire agencies • 30,000 Firefighters

  9. New Technology • New Resources • New Methods

  10. Training is the key to all competencies

  11. Lessons Learned!

  12. Attrition & Growth Everything is replaced sooner or later!

  13. The Master Plan 1935 1971 1991 2001 NOW

  14. Training And Education Goals

  15. Budget Limitations • What are the first programs to be reduced when fire fighting agencies face revenue losses? • Fire Prevention • Training and Education

  16. Terminology • Standard: Something set up and established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, weight, extent, value, or quality. • Accredit: To give official authorization to or approval of. To provide with credentials; to recognize an educational institution as maintaining standards that qualifies its graduates for admission to higher or more specialized institutions or for professional practice. • Certify: To attest authoritatively, such as to attest as being true or as represented or as meeting a standard.

  17. Table 1:Fire Training Strategic Plan Committee -Identified Problems • Lack of transportability: training is not necessarily recognized between agencies or states. • Training is complex to deliver and administer. • Curricula lack currency. • Funding issues: a continuous problem. • Lack of unity and cohesiveness statewide. • Lack of quality assurance. • Lack of reciprocity.

  18. Table 2: Criteria for the Future • The system would be an integrated system that will continue to grow to consistently meet the demands of today’s fire service and anticipate the needs of tomorrow. • The system would meet the needs of all firefighters and stakeholders. • The system would include a process for quality assurance in both products (curricula) and delivery of service (instructors) and infrastructure (equipment and facilities). • The system would include a fiscal mechanism to develop and maintain both product and delivery, as well as sustain itself for the future. • The system would have mutually unified governance.

  19. Training And Education Recommendations Adopt New Master Plan Improve Funding Provide Administrative Oversight Make a Committment

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