COURSE OFFERINGS 2023 Sponsored by Upper Valley Regional Emergency Services Association, Inc.
Down and Dirty Rapid Intervention Team (RIT) (7-8 hours)
This one-day RIT training class is designed to give you as many repetitions as possible using the equipment your department has on hand for experiences you are most likely to encounter. After completing this training day, you will feel confident in responding as a Rapid Intervention Team member in your response area. We will start the day off with small sided training and rapid repetitions. Firefighter down CPR, pack conversions and mayday calls and RIT bag familiarization are the baseline skills needed to perform well in a rapid intervention situation. Next, we move on to the drill component of the day. Now that we have the skills down, we put them to use in preplanned drills while increasing the intensity. The Pittsburgh, Denver and NEFT drills will put your skills, teamwork, and endurance to the test! We finish the drill session with the LT. Ferry drill. This is another real-world scenario we train on that was created from a successful rescue of a down firefighter in Manchester NH. This drill encompasses all skills and lasts no more than 5 minutes for each repetition – demonstrating how fast things can go wrong and how quickly we need to act to change outcomes.
Lastly, we will finish off the day with real world scenarios using our unique training props. We will create a house floor plan complete with furniture and furnishings, closets and bedrooms, hallways, doors, and windows. Each situation will be different and require any number of the previous trained on skills to extricate the down firefighter. This is an intense course covering a wide range of skills in a short amount of time. Please be prepared to work hard! Knee pads and a change of clothes are recommended!
Instructors: New England Fire Training
Prerequisite: FF1 or SCBA certified
Equipment: Full PPE, SCBA and extra bottle
Electric Vehicles (7 hours)
Like it or not electric / battery powered vehicles are here to stay.
Along with these vehicles come associated problems that confront fire service responders. Using classroom presentations and first-person observations this course will provide firefighters with the fundamentals of safe operations around electric / battery powered vehicles. We will provide hands on training utilizing an electric vehicle accessed on a hydraulic service lift.
Instructors: Green Mountain Catamount Fire Training
Prerequisite: none
Equipment: none