Regional Fire Trainings

Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute

Fire Forum

Attendees of these regional training events have the opportunity to learn from American fire service trainers and thought leaders. Participants can interact and engage during the seminar-formatted single-day forums to understand how the messages relate to their individual departmental needs. Tactics, training, and leadership: There's something to help everyone become more aggressively effective.

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Registration fee ($35) for this event includes the morning and afternoon sessions. Attendance of both sessions is not required - but highly encouraged.
The registration fee also includes a boxed lunch to be served onsite. Attendees accepting this benefit must provide a sandwich preference (ham, turkey, roast beef, or veggie) during their online registration

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Next Offering

The next Fire Forum will be hosted by Leawood Fire Department, on December 18, 2024. This event offers:

Lessons Learned in Leadership: From the Firehouse to the Fire Floor

We exist to serve, and we serve as members of teams. Our teams have leaders. The cadence to which the team performs is primarily due to the leaders’ expectations set forth preemptively. Leaders must motivate, be ‘in the fight,’ and look to improve the well-being of the team to best carry out the mission. Let’s delve into leadership, from mindset to motivation, tactics to training. A journey of lessons learned from our successes and failures in the firehouse and on the fireground.

First Due! Residential Building Fire Tactics for the Engine, Truck, and Chief

This program discusses the mission-critical incident actions for Engines and Trucks and Chiefs at Residential Fires. Highlighting the ‘must have’ roles and responsibilities for each unit, and honing those elements that are imperative to employ an efficient and effective fire attack. Successful fire attack dictates a deliberate balance of coordination and communication between all members. Discussions from pre-incident readiness to tactical resource deployments for ‘both sides of the floor.’ While we all know that the application of water still extinguishes fire and searches still locate trapped civilians, the art and science behind “how, when, and why” to mount the attack is being questioned. The initial company-level actions can make or break the operation. Are you and your team best prepared to operate mentally, physically, and tactically in our residential environment? Don’t think so, know so…

Presented by:

Captain Douglas J. Mitchell Jr. has 30 years of fire service experience, the past 23 with the Fire Department of New York (FDNY). He is the captain of Ladder Company 38 in the Belmont section of the Bronx. He is an FDNY IMT member and served as the executive officer of the Probationary Firefighters School. He previously served with the Fairfax County (VA) and Howard County (MD) Fire & Rescue Departments. He co-wrote Fire Engineering’s 25 to Survive: Reducing Residential Injury and LODD with Dan Shaw