Click on picture to watch the Keynote Speech. Forward to one hour and seven minutes.
Curt’s First Due Column in the October Issue of Firehouse Magazine
Click on the image to read the article, “It’s Worth the Risk!”
The old adage: “Put the wet stuff on the red stuff'” still stands today. The fire service continues to rely on water as our primary means of extinguishment. Even though we have made tremendous advances in apparatus, bunker gear, and thermal imaging technology, WATER is still the most widely used and the most effective extinguishing agent at the majority of structure fires. We have added large diameter supply and 1.75″ attack hose to move this water from its source to the seat of the fire for final extinguishment. With these advances, we must not forget the longtime mainstays of the fire service: two and one-half inch hose combined with low pressure nozzles are still highly effective and needed to move/deliver water to its final destination…the burning solid fuels.
This class will examine how to maximize hydrant flows, booster tank efficiency, and final delivery through both 1.75″ and 2.5″ hose. We will cover when to use LDH vs 2.5″ or 3″ hose as your supply/feeder lines. After choosing your water supply line, you must move forward to the attack line and understand when to choose 2.5″ over 1.75″, or when to use multiple 1.75″ flanking attack lines over one 2.5″. Then there is the fire beyond the single 2.5″ and that is the time to go big. Before going big, you must ensure you have the supply to do so. After going big, the class will cover the pros and cons of all size fire hose in relation to moving water and utilizing all types of master stream devices. When utilizing master stream devices, you must understand the tip size, its flow, and the variables surrounding each tip size. The final chapter of this class will be defensive and offensive modes of attack together for the best overall fire extinguishment possibilities. These most efficient fire extinguishment possibilities can only be effective if you have a complete understanding of how to get WATER on the FIRE!
Fire Officer Series
Course Syllabus for all seminars
EXPERIENCED BASED TACTICS for the Engine – Truck and Chief
This NEW educational series identifies the different responsibilities for the Engine, Ladder and Chief as they arrive and go to work at the different type occupancieslisted.
Each of the listed occupancy/buildings is presented as 3 or 6 -hour program depending the occupancy(s) you choose. These programs are based on the NEW text, Fire Ground Size-Up, 2nd. edition. Class examples include:
* Private Dwellings
* Multiple Dwellings
* Row frames and Brownstones
* Taxpayers and Strip Malls
* Warehouses, Factories and Loft Buildings
* Garden Apartments and Townhouses
* Churches
* Residential and Commercial Office High-Rises
* High-Rise Buildings Under Construction
* Vacant Structures
Course Competencies: Students will be able to:
* Identify Fire Ground Size-Up responsibilities for effective decision making.
* Identify hose line selection, stretch and placement responsibilities.
* Understand the tools and tactics necessary for timed vent and search techniques.
* Utilize a practical approach to scene management and control.
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: This seminar is a MUST for every current or future fire officer! Knowing “when to stay“ or “when to go“ are the critical factors outlined in this seminar. Situational Awareness, or the lack of it, is a consistent series of factors that leads to the success or failure of an emergency incident. Touted as one of our most popular programs, this seminar is a 6-hour (full day) seminar designed to enhance your anticipative skills.
Course Competencies: In a manner deemed appropriate by the instructor, students will be able to:
* Understand how we make decisions.
* Recognize the Pre-incident Information Need. (PIN)
* Utilize alarm transmission information and on-scene reports to recognize as well as identify the challenges.
* Understand and identify building construction, occupancy, and height cues and their influence on your decision making.
* Recognize how resource and response capabilities can affect your operations.
* Assess structural involvement.
* Further recognize how the location of the fire influencetactics.
* Assess the Occupant life hazard and your decision to search, rescue and remove.
* Utilize IMS with “the radio” to enhance scenemanagement and accountability.
* Recognize how time plays a critical role in your decision making.
MODERN FIRE GROUND OPERATIONS:This program is a 6-hour comprehensive review of fire department operations in Lightweight designed buildings,followed by a comprehensive review of the NIST and UL information relating to Transitional Fire Attack. The new suggested strategy “hitting it hard from the yard“ has become the most heated topic in the history of the fire service!
Course Competencies: In a manner deemed appropriate by the instructor, students will be able to:
* Identify the different Light-Weight building materials being used.
* Identify fire behavior and collapse characteristics of Light-Weight building materials.
* Establish an identification/awareness program for their departments.
* Develop an operating guideline for fires in Lightweightdesigned buildings.
* Review the NIST/UL information regarding Transitional Attack.
* Identify the positive and negative aspects of the information.
* Identify the common-sense approach.
* Identify when used and when not used.
* Provide additional methods to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and safety of your fire ground operations.
TRANSITIONAL ATTACK – NOT ALWAYS! This 3-hour program reviews the NIST and UL information regarding TRANSITIONAL FIRE ATTACK and presents information that you NEED to KNOW before you “hit it hard from the yard.” Don’t miss this information!
Course Competencies: In a manner deemed appropriate by the instructor, students will be able to:
* Identify what is being said and why.
* Review the NIST/UL information.
* Identify the positive and negative aspects of the information.
* Identify the common-sense approach.
* Understand how to merge “science based” with “experience based” information.
* Identify when used and when not used.
* Provide additional methods to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and safety of your fire ground operations.
OPERATIONS in LIGHT-WEIGHT designed BUILDINGS: This is a 3-hour comprehensive review of the Size-Up factors necessary for a safe operation in and around structures constructed with Light-Weight components. From understanding buildingdesign to fire behavior and fire department operations; the material presented in this program is critical to getting everyone home.
Course Competencies: Students will be able to:
* Identify the different Light-Weight building materials being used.
* Discuss the reasons for their increased use in the building construction industry.
* Identify the decision-making challenges.
* Identify fire behavior and collapse characteristics of Light-Weight building materials.
* Establish an identification/awareness program for their departments.
* Develop an operating guideline for fires in Lightweightdesigned buildings.
“HOARDING” and Fire Department Operations: This concern is NOT limited to urban firefighting. Fire Departments from rural, suburban, and urban areas need to be aware of the concerns and how to effectively and safely operate in buildings full of accumulated items. Identified as one of the “most dangerous buildings we can enter into,” this 3 -hour program is designed to prepare you for the unexpected.
Course Competencies: Students will be able to:
* Understand why this occurs and buildings where this exists.
* Conduct a risk assessment at incidents.
* Recognize the challenge of increased fuel loads and rapid-fire growth.
* Identify the concerns and challenges with fire ground operations.
* Identify the challenges with victim removal and how to overcome it.
* Identify the concerns with structural collapse.
* Recognize the need to decontaminate members after the operation.
* When the situation allows, how to provide Customer Service help.
MAY-DAY/URGENT Radio guidelines and Procedures: This is a three-hour program designed to establish procedure with your members for a MAY-DAY or URGENT radio transmission. In this seminar we will identify the difficulties, the parameters, the difference between the messages, as well as when and how to transmit a message. Using actual case studies, we will present your department with a model SOP for a realistic approach to this subject.
Course Competencies: Students will be able to:
* Overcome the negative stigma with transmitting a MAY- DAY message.
* Review actual case studies and the challenges presented and overcome.
* Explain the difference between an URGENT and MAY- DAY message.
* Identify the parameters for each message.
* Follow a simple guide/acronym for each term.
* Identify use with sample/mock exercises.
COMMAND and CONTROL through use of the F.D. RADIO: This is a 3-hour comprehensive program that focuses on a uniformed/informative and disciplined approach toward scene management and control through use of the FD radio. In this seminar we provide you with a scripted outline for the initial radio report, the alarm status report, and the incident scene progress report. Additionally, we will focus on identifying building construction, floor/occupancy designation, and the discipline needed in your radio use. By reviewing actual radio transmission clips and case studies,we will provide your department with a uniformed approach on what to say, how to say it and how it should impact your fire ground operations.
Course Competencies: In a manner deemed appropriate by the instructor, students will be able to:
* Identify the value and purpose of a uniformed, informative and disciplined use of the
Fire Department radio.
* Provide a scripted and informative “initial radio report.”
* Provide and define the objective of an “alarm status report.”
* Provide and define the objective of an “incident scene progress report.”
* Follow a uniformed approach on “what to say” and “how to say it.”
FIRE GROUND SIZE – UP: This program is a comprehensive review of the 15-Size-Up factors necessary for an efficient, effective and safe operation. This program is designed for a current or future Company and Chief fire officer. This is NOT a basic program! Utilizing the acronym COAL TWAS WEALTHS from the textbook ” Fire ground Size-Up” this program is presented as 6–hourseminar.
Course Competencies: In a manner deemed appropriate by the instructor, students will be able to:
* Describe the 6 classes of Construction with their fire spread and collapse concerns.
* Describe the Occupancy classifications and theirinfluence on people and building
content.
* Describe Apparatus and Staffing resources, response,and use.
* Describe the four Life Hazard groups.
* Describe how Terrain can affect fire ground operations.
* Describe Water Supply availability, needs, and use.
* Describe the use of Auxiliary Appliances and Aides at an incident scene.
* Describe how Street Conditions can affect FD response, placement and operations.
* Describe the four Weather classifications and their impact on FD operations.
* Describe how to prioritize the Exposure challenges at an incident, how to protect them,
as well as how to manage them.
* Describe the Area square footage assessment, involvement and protection.
* Describe the four fire Location and Extent categorieswithin multiple construction
types.
* Describe how Height can influence FD operations.
* Describe how Time can and will influence your decision making.
* Describe how to group size-up factors into the Special Considerations category.
Development and Use of Fire Ground Tactical/Command Boards: This three-hour lecture/demonstration will take the student through the design and use of a Tactical Worksheet and Command Tracking Board. Students will be able to apply tactical worksheets through a series of mock fireground scenarios utilizing their own department’s resources.
Course Competencies: In a manner deemed appropriate by the instructor, students will be able to:
* Understand and be able to apply management terms based on incident size and
complexity.
* Assess/track assigned and responding units.
* Recognize span of control challenges.
* Decentralize an incident.
* Assign and track resources utilizing a work sheet and Command board.
STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE: This 3 – hour program reviews the different classes of construction and the inherent occupancies where collapse is most probable. In this seminar we will discuss the different types of construction with the fire spread and collapse concerns for each. Through several case studies and video footage, we provide each student with an “anticipative guide” to protect their members.
Course Competencies: In a manner deemed appropriate by the instructor, students will be able to:
* Identify the 6 different classes of construction.
* Recognize the fire spread and collapse concerns for each.
* Identify the inherent challenges within each construction/occupancy.
* Establish a list of collapse indicators for the fire officer.
* Through a series of mock exercises, identify the concerns before collapse occurs.
Team, Large Area ROPE SEARCH: This program covers all the necessary steps your department will need in order to implement an organized rope search in large area buildings. In this seminar we will discuss the tools, the techniques, air management, and member responsibilities. The program is presented as a 3-hour lecture/demonstration with an all-day practical if requested.
Course Competencies: In a manner deemed appropriate by the instructor, students will be able to:
* Identify the necessary tools needed to conduct a large area rope search.
* Describe member and tool assignments.
* Demonstrate radio assignment and use during a search.
* Describe/demonstrate search techniques.
* Demonstrate how to track member assignments and air consumption.
Seminar Information:
Contact us at (973)726-9538 or firegroundsizeupmt@gmail.com
SUGGESTED TEXTBOOKS:
* Fire Ground Size -Up: DC M. Terpak – Jersey City
* Fire Officer Oral Assessment Study Guides: Promotional Prep
* Assessment Center Strategy and Tactics: DC M. Terpak – Jersey City
* Assessment Center Management and Supervision: DC M. Terpak – Jersey City
COD F. Montagne – North Hudson
* Fire Ground Operational Guides: DC F.Viscuso- Kearny NJ, DC M. Terpak Jersey City
WEB-SITES:
* promotionalprep.com
* firegroundsizeup.com
FACE BOOK:
* facebook.com / Promotional Prep
* facebook.com/ Mike Terpak Fire Training and Consulting
We added Chief Scott Thompson of The Colony FD. Author of The Functional Fire Company.
Price is currently $275 and $75 Spouse
Going to $350 and $100 this Friday. Only 100 spots left. We sold more seats in the shortest time ever. Thank You!!!
More Details and Link to Register
https://countyfiretactics.com/command-officer-boot-camp-2020/
Jessica and I would love to have you on Pensacola Beach in 2020. 2019 was unreal and we have more to come in 2020.
Don’t miss out! Only 80 spots available!
2 Classes: Gallons Per Second – Morning; Big Fire, Big Water – Afternoon
Date: Thursday, November 7, 2019
Time: 8:30 am
Location: City of Pelham Recreation Center
2020 Ballpark Rd, Pelham, AL 35124
Investment: $99
Gallons Per Second -Presented by Curt Isakson
Today’s fires are burning hotter and reaching flashover conditions at a much quicker rate. This class will cover exceeding fire flow needs while still managing water during the crucial initial hose line advancement in interior offensive attack. Learn why it is necessary to think in terms of gallons per second at this crucial stage of the firefight. Strategies will be presented to manage the booster tank supply until a sustainable water upply has been established. This class is especially relevant for companies that commonly engage with the booster tank and deploy suburban tactics. All aspects of first-due fire tactics at your most common structure fires and how to quickly suppress them are covered.
Big Fire, Big Water -Presented by Curt Isakson
When presented with a large amount of fire on arrival, larger amounts of water are necessary. Sometimes the amount of fire is beyond tank water and even the hydrant supply that is available. This class will cover fire flow needs and how to best meet them with your system. This class will also cover maximizing tank water to include tankers and taking full advantage of your available hydrant system. This class will also cover large fires and control burn down while protecting exposures.
Last week to get $199 & $99 Buddy Pass
Rooms Start at $80
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