| Fire Officer Courses: 32 to 40 hrs. FIRE OFFICER COURSES Fire Service Instructor I/II This course is designed to provide students with the essential tools and skills to coordinate training in a local fire/emergency service organization. Course content deals with a variety of training challenges facing the local training officer, including dealing with personnel, program planning, delivery, and training liability. Once again this is a suggested plan of training to provide the firefighter with a well rounded education and comply with current Federal and State standards. It is by no means a complete and comprehensive program. This is primarily classroom training that should be complemented with your department's live fire training evolutions. There are additional specialty subjects firefighters may take to increase their skills. This recommended plan covers the basics. Fire Officer 1 This course in the Fire Officer series continues to examine the transition from firefighter to supervisor, further addressing the Fire Officer I job performance requirements of NFPA 1021. Topics include group dynamics, information management and budgets, company level training, public education, community relations and labor relations, pre-incident planning, crew resource management, and strategy & tactics for multiple company operations. Fire Officer 2 This course is includes the Fire Officer II job performance requirements of the NFPA 1021 standard, this course builds on the skills learned in Introduction to Fire Officer I and Fire Officer I. Students begin to examine the functions of a “Managing Fire Officer”. Topics include government administration, human resource management, media relations, budgeting, fire inspection practices, analyzing injuries, post-incident analysis, preparing for the future. |
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