Sterling Fire Training

0830 – 1700 hours all days

This course provides information on conducting incident size-up, developing and implementing an initial plan of action involving single and multi-unit operations for various types of emergency incidents to mitigate the situation following agency safety procedures, conducting pre-incident planning, and develop and conduct a post-incident analysis.

Extensive time will be spent performing group and individual Incident Command exercises

Students should bring either:

Fire and Emergency Services Company Officer, fourth edition, International Fire Service Training Association, 2007, 0879392819

-or-

Fire Officer: Principles and Practice, second edition, Jones and Bartlett, 2010, 9781449600621

Sterling Fire Training

0830-1700 each day

This course provides students with a basic knowledge of the emergency service requirements related to the roles and responsibilities of a Chief Fire Officer including developing a plan for the integration of fire services resources, developing an agency resource contingency plan, evaluating incident facilities, supervising multiple resources, developing and utilizing an incident action plan, obtaining incident information to facilitate transfer of command, developing and conducting a post-incident analysis, and maintaining incident records.

Prerequisites: Meet the educational requirements for Company Officer or five (5) years as a career officer (Lieutenant or higher), or seven (7) years as a volunteer officer (Lieutenant or higher) or five (5) years CAL FIRE Fire Apparatus Engineer

Required Text: Chief Officer: Principles and Practice (International Association of Fire Chiefs 3rd or 4th Edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning)  

State Fire Training S-290 Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior(S-290): This is a classroom-based skills course designed to prepare the prospective fireline supervisor to undertake safe and effective fire management operations. It is the second course in a series that collectively serves to develop fire behavior prediction knowledge and skills.

Course Objectives:
• Identify and describe the characteristics of fuels, weather, and topography that influence wildland fire behavior.
• Describe the interaction of fuels, weather, and topography on wildland fire behavior, fireline tactics, and safety.
• Describe the causes of extreme fire behavior conditions (long range spotting, crowning, and fire whirls) that develop due to weather, fuels, and/or topography.
• Interpret, communicate, apply, and document wildland fire behavior and weather information.

Prerequisites:
• S-190:Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior
• Satisfactory completion of pre-selection assessment and pre-coursework

Course Length: 32 hours
Course Code: S-290-2-24

Register by making contact with Barbara Livanos
(916) 203-3443 / Barbara.Livanos@CalOES.ca.gov

Sterling Fire Training

830 – 1700 hours all days

This course provides information on general administrative functions and the implementation of department policies and procedures and addresses conveying the fire department’s role, image, and mission to the public.

Students should bring either:

Fire and Emergency Services Company Officer, fourth edition, International Fire Service Training Association, 2007, 0879392819

-or-

Fire Officer: Principles and Practice, second edition, Jones and Bartlett, 2010, 9781449600621

Society of Professional Rope Access Technicians: Level I, II, & III
Instructed by Elevated Safety

Times: 0830-1600 each day

This 4 day rope access training is for SPRAT Certification Levels and concluded by 1 day with SPRAT Evaluator. One level taught per course. These courses teach workers how to safely access structures using two-rope systems, as well as advanced techniques of structural progression and rescue.

November 18-22: Register

This 40 hour technician program is a comprehensive boat operations course delivered on the IRB and Jon boat platform in static and dynamic water, up to class 3 whitewater.  During the course, students learn the fundamentals of hydrology and how it relates to boat operation, design, and construction.  Other skills covered are operation and maintenance of inflatable and aluminum boats and outboard engines, SAR theory and techniques utilizing the IRB and GPS, self rescue and victim recovery strategy and techniques.  Using both paddles and outboard engines, students will get 4 days of hands on skills development evolutions, emphasizing: use and avoidance of hydraulics, ferrying and pinning drills in various current flows, towing, docking, pacing and crew transfer, self recovery and victim pickup and recovery sequences, throwbagging from an IRB, and deploying a rescue swimmer from an IRB.  Other exercises include a night search and rescue simulation and multiple scenario situations, that allow the students to integrate their newly developed skills in realistic rescue simulations. 

Students will receive the new CA State Fire Training 40 hour R&FRT Boat certificate.  FEMA US&R members may also get their taskbook signed off for IRB and Jon Boat in this course.

Prerequisites:  DBAW Safe Boater Certification and Swiftwater Rescue Certificate or SFT River and Flood Rescue Tech Certificate *Please contact our instructors with prereq questions prior to registering*

Required PPE:

* Helmet
* Live Bait Type V PFD
* Wetsuit or Drysuit
* Water Shoes
* Gloves

Sterling Fire Training

This course provides students with a basic knowledge of the administration requirements related to the roles and responsibilities of a Chief Fire Officer including directing a department record management system, analyzing and interpreting records and data, developing a model plan for continuous organizational improvement, developing a plan to facilitate approval, preparing community awareness programs, and evaluating the inspection program of the AHJ.

Prerequisites: Meet the educational requirements for Company Officer or five (5) years as a career officer (Lieutenant or higher), or seven (7) years as a volunteer officer (Lieutenant or higher) or five (5) years CAL FIRE Fire Apparatus Engineer

Required Text: Chief Officer: Principles and Practice (International Association of Fire Chiefs 3rd or 4th Edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning)

This course provides information on legal considerations for a court proceeding. Topics include coordinating expert resources, formulating an opinion, presenting investigative findings, and testifying during legal proceedings.

Pre-Requisite
Fire Investigation 1A: Basic Fire Investigation &
Fire Investigation 1B: Evidence and Documentation, &
PC 832(a) Arrest

Sterling Fire Training

This course provides information on the use of human resources to
accomplish assignments, evaluating member performance, supervising
personnel, and integrating health and safety plans, policies, and procedures
into daily activities as well as the emergency scene.

0830 – 1630 each day

Students should bring:

Manager’s Guide to the California Firefighters Bill of Rights Act, 3rd Edition, Morris Publishing

and either:

Fire and Emergency Services Company Officer, fourth edition, International Fire Service Training Association, 2007, 0879392819

-or-

Fire Officer: Principles and Practice, second edition, Jones and Bartlett, 2010, 9781449600621

State Fire Training S-231 Engine Boss (S-231): This is a skill course designed to produce student proficiency in the performance of the duties associated with Engine Boss, Single Resource (ENGB). Topics include engine and crew capabilities and limitations, information sources, fire size up considerations, tactics, and wildland/urban interface.

Prerequisites:
• S-230 Crew Boss

Course Length: 16 hours
Course Code: S-231-1-24

Instructed by Jeff Oliver & Trevor Moureaux

This course provides information on fire apparatus preventive maintenance and driving/operating. Topics include routine tests, inspections, and servicing functions, operate, back, maneuver, and turn a fire apparatus in a variety of conditions; and operate all fixed systems and equipment on a fire apparatus. This course is based on the 2014 edition of NFPA 1002 Standard for Fire Apparatus Driver/Operator Professional Qualifications. This course fulfills the requirements for a Class C Firefighter Endorsement.

Required Textbook (Buy, Rent, E-Book, Etc): Fire Apparatus Driver/Operator, Second Edition, Jones & Bartlett, ISBN: 9781284026917 

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State Fire Training S-230 Crew Boss (S-230): This is a classroom course designed to produce student proficiency in the performance of duties associated with the single resource boss position from initial dispatch through demobilization to the home unit. Topics include operational leadership, preparation and mobilization, assignment preparation, risk management, entrapment avoidance, safety and tactics, offline duties, demobilization, and post-incident responsibilities.

Prerequisites:
S-290 Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior (classroom delivery only)

Course Length: 24 hours
Course Code: S-230-1-24

Register by making contact with Barbara Livanos
(916) 203-3443 / Barbara.Livanos@CalOES.ca.gov

This three-day (24 hour) course will take you from classroom discussion to working safely and efficiently in a trench rescue environment. This hands-on training program will cover topics that include: Trench and Excavation Regulations, Understanding Soil, Trench Configurations, Trench Hazards, Rescue Team Preparation, Incident Response, Initial On Scene and Pre-Entry Operations, Shoring Systems and Components, Installation of Shoring Systems, Victim Rescue and Recovery and Incident Termination.

What to bring: Lunch, work boots (steel-toed preferred), helmet (wildland helmet preferred), long pants (wildland pants preferred), long sleeve shirt (wildland jacket preferred), leather gloves, protective glasses, and drinking water.

Pre-Requisites: Rescue Systems I

USAR Training Site (HOT)
5520 Shelter Road
McClellan Park, CA 95652

Tower Rescue Technician
Instructed by Elevated Safety
Anderson & Indianapolis, IN

This 4-day program is designed to provide operations-level and technician-level skills to all participants. Students will become prepared for emergency response to high-angle rescue incidents involving communications towers, radio towers, and other man-made structures. The course meets all technician-level requirements outlined in the new Tower Rescue Chapter of NFPA 1670 (2017 Edition). Note: State certification is not available.

Course includes:

• Tower hazards

• RF safety

• Tower climbing equipment and techniques

• Tower rescue methods

• Outlined requirements in Tower Rescue Chapter of NFPA 1670

• Written and practical tests

• Note: State certification is not available.

Prerequisites:

• Vertical II or Rope Rescue Technician

Target Audiences

• Firefighters & First Responders

• Search and Rescue Team Members

• Industrial Rescue Team Members

• Professional Rescuers

Society of Professional Rope Access Technicians: Level I, II, & III
Instructed by Elevated Safety

Times: 0830-1600 each day

This 4 day rope access training is for SPRAT Certification Levels and concluded by 1 day with SPRAT Evaluator. One level taught per course. These courses teach workers how to safely access structures using two-rope systems, as well as advanced techniques of structural progression and rescue.

October 21-25: Register
November 18-22: Register

This course is an intensive hands-on training program that will prepare you to respond to confined space emergencies. This course of instruction prepares the student in identifying confined spaces and permit-required confined spaces, the hazards associated with permit required confined spaces, target industries and hazards, state and federal regulations, components of a rescue operation, and the roles and responsibilities of the rescue team.

This course provides information on scene documentation and evidence collection/preservation. Topics include photographing the scene, diagramming the scene, constructing investigative notes, processing evidence and establishing chain of custody, processing victims and fatalities, selecting evidence for analysis, maintaining a chain of custody, preparing a fire investigation report, and disposing of evidence

Pre-Requisite
Fire Investigation 1A: Basic Fire Investigation

Register by making contact with Barbara Livanos
Cell: (916) 203-3443
Email: Barbara.Livanos@CalOES.ca.gov

Register by making contact with Barbara Livanos
Cell: (916) 203-3443
Email: Barbara.Livanos@CalOES.ca.gov

Technical Rescue Emergency Care (TREC)
Instructed by Elevated Safety

This course is for experienced rescue technicians to learn methods for integrating emergency medical care and treatment during evolving rescue scenarios. Rescuers will build on their existing experience to navigate rescue scenarios while providing basic and advanced and life support (ALS/BLS) to critically injured casualties. Objectives are accomplished through integration of medical simulation and practical skills performed in realistic technical rescue scenarios.

This course is NOT a first-aid course. This course is for trained emergency medical providers to adapt their clinical care to the technical rescue environment.

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This 40 hour technician program is a comprehensive boat operations course delivered on the IRB and Jon boat platform in static and dynamic water, up to class 3 whitewater.  During the course, students learn the fundamentals of hydrology and how it relates to boat operation, design, and construction.  Other skills covered are operation and maintenance of inflatable and aluminum boats and outboard engines, SAR theory and techniques utilizing the IRB and GPS, self rescue and victim recovery strategy and techniques.  Using both paddles and outboard engines, students will get 4 days of hands on skills development evolutions, emphasizing: use and avoidance of hydraulics, ferrying and pinning drills in various current flows, towing, docking, pacing and crew transfer, self recovery and victim pickup and recovery sequences, throwbagging from an IRB, and deploying a rescue swimmer from an IRB.  Other exercises include a night search and rescue simulation and multiple scenario situations, that allow the students to integrate their newly developed skills in realistic rescue simulations. 

Students will receive the new CA State Fire Training 40 hour R&FRT Boat certificate.  FEMA US&R members may also get their taskbook signed off for IRB and Jon Boat in this course.

Prerequisites:  DBAW Safe Boater Certification and Swiftwater Rescue Certificate or SFT River and Flood Rescue Tech Certificate *Please contact our instructors with prereq questions prior to registering*

Required PPE:

* Helmet
* Live Bait Type V PFD
* Wetsuit or Drysuit
* Water Shoes
* Gloves

This course provides information on securing the fire scene and determining the origin and cause of the fire. Topics include responsibilities of a fire investigator, securing the fire ground, conducting an exterior and interior survey, analyzing fire patterns, interpreting individual fire patterns, discriminating the effects of explosions, examining and removing fire debris, reconstructing the area of origin, inspecting the performance of building systems.

This course will prepare participants to undergo competency testing for high angle rescue. The scope of the program is to familiarize participants with the high angle environment and experience; and for them to safely participate in the engineering and operation of simple to complex rescue systems. SFT certificate of completion included with course fee.

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Society of Professional Rope Access Technicians: Level I, II, & III
Instructed by Elevated Safety

Times: 0830-1600 each day

This 4 day rope access training is for SPRAT Certification Levels and concluded by 1 day with SPRAT Evaluator. One level taught per course. These courses teach workers how to safely access structures using two-rope systems, as well as advanced techniques of structural progression and rescue.

September 16-20: Register
October 21-25: Register
November 18-22: Register

This 40 hour technician program is a comprehensive River & Flood Rescue Technician course meeting the most current NFPA 1670 and 1006 standards for Technician level.  During the course, students will begin with the fundamentals of hydrology, river classification and assessment, size up and management of a scene, and theory of rescue systems and techniques.  The course then focuses on swiftwater swimming skills and maneuvers, self-rescue techniques and practical evolutions, and introduction to rescue system setup and deployment for shore, swimmer, and boat-based rescue.  Students will participate in multiple scenario evolutions to demonstrate and develop these fundamental swiftwater rescue skills.  Basic boat handling skills and an introduction to rope systems, including mechanical advantage and anchoring and deploying a boat on Tyrolean, for the swiftwater environment will also be covered.  After mastering the fundamental water rescue skill sets, students will progress into more involved and challenging SAR evolutions, including a night search and rescue simulation, that allow the students to integrate their newly developed skills in realistic rescue situations.  This is an intensive program which will provide extensive time in the water and the ability for a novice to acclimate to the swiftwater environment, while also pushing experienced rescuers to challenge themselves in new ways. 

Students will receive the CA State Fire Training 40 hour River and Flood Rescue Technician certificate upon completion.

Prerequisites:  Basic Swimming Ability

Required PPE:

* Helmet
* Live Bait Type V PFD 
* Wetsuit or Drysuit
* Water Shoes
* Gloves

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