The Mayday Mindset lecture will be on 10/24/24
The Mayday Mindset presentation is entirely backed by decades of real-world experience and the most up-to-date firefighter survival and proactive RIT training models. This one-of-a-kind training program focuses entirely on providing today’s firefighters with the necessary tools to teach, learn, develop, and excel at any fire ground skill. Through the study of learning science, predictable human behavior patterns, fire service data, and scientific research, this class will provide the attendees with an unprecedented blueprint for success under stress.

Over the last decade, firefighter RIT and survival classes became increasingly linear and cookie-cutter in their approach to these nonlinear life-or-death events. This has created a dangerous standard of training firefighters to get out of trouble instead of adequately training them to stay out of trouble. The Mayday Mindset program focuses on the discontinuation of that adverse practice. In this class, Rob will highlight the many challenges these high-energy, low-frequency incidents present and provide a breakdown of how they will impact our tactical and strategic decision-making process. This discussion will encourage today’s firefighters to unfollow the established RIT training norms, edit their beliefs, and update their current systems. This progressive and success-based training model will ensure that every student in attendance understands how to properly prepare, command, deploy, and survive the modern fire ground mayday.
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The Dennis LeGear lecture will be on 10/25 and 10/26. Each student will have the opportunity to take the HOT one day and the lecture the next.

The Search Tactics and Techniques lecture will be 10/24/24.
This class is for students who may be involved in conducting primary and secondary searches of single-family, multi-family, and commercial structures. This class will focuses on the primary search, secondary search and final searches. Not only in residential buildings but in multi-family and commercial settings, as well as Vent Enter Search (VES), Rope Assisted Search Procedures (RASP), and Wide Area Search.
**** NOTE****
The Dennis LeGear lecture will be on 10/25 and 10/26. Each student will have the opportunity to take the HOT one day and the lecture the next.

Command School: A Workshop for Incident Commanders
Description:
Commanding a scene confidently is a crucial skill for fire service Incident Commanders. This workshop will equip current and future officers with the knowledge and techniques to lead emergency responses effectively. Participants will learn to assess scenes, communicate effectively, delegate tasks, and maintain scene flow. The workshop will include scenario-based simulations culminating in participants commanding a live scenario.

Workshop Objectives:
Identify key elements to assess when arriving at an emergency scene.
Develop effective communication strategies for commanding a scene.
Learn techniques for delegating tasks and managing resources efficiently.
Understand how to maintain scene flow and adapt to changing circumstances.
Recognize common pitfalls and statements to avoid for smooth scene management.

The Stretching and Operations lecture will be 10/24/24
This grass roots course will cover Engine company operations in stretching and operating the critical first line and will cover all the positions of the first due Engine. The Engine Officers responsibilities, before during and after a working fire. An in depth look at the Nozzle firefighters Duties of stretching, advancing and operating the nozzle. It will stress the importance of a well-trained backup man. It will also cover the door firefighters position. This course will also cover the simple tools, any well trained Engine firefighter should carry during everyday activities. It will also cover how the nozzle team should react to different fire ground emergencies. The success of every operation depends on a well-trained determined company. This back to basics no nonsense course will take you through the right steps to complete this mission. This course with also take an in-depth look at stretching and operating the 2 ½” hand line in the event the fire, the building or the situation calls for large amounts of water applied rapidly.
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The Dennis LeGear lecture will be on 10/25 and 10/26. Each student will have the opportunity to take the HOT one day and the lecture the next.

This grassroots course will start in the classroom, where tactical operations and tips using tower ladders or aerial platforms will be discussed in a lecture format. Then, it will transition to the drill field, where the students will perform many of the tactical operations presented. They will cut from the bucket (roofs and garage doors), raise ladders from the bucket, remove stokes baskets, and perform other skill drills.
**** NOTE****
The Dennis LeGear lecture will be on 10/25 and 10/26. Each student will have the opportunity to take the HOT one day and the lecture the next.

Keynote with Curt Isakson

Hydrants to Nozzle
The attendee will get a rapid and clear understanding of these three critical areas of fire stream development: volume, Placement, and Velocity, as well as how these factors impact functional suppression. Often, placement of water can trump GPM, for example.

In addition, it is important to have tactically redundant flows in place. Once a fire passes the moderate-sized compartment volume, safety (arresting rapid fire development) cannot be assured via stream volume alone during interior operations.