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Co-sponsored by
Lawrence Douglas County Fire Medical, Girard Fire Department,
Salina Fire Department and Wichita Fire Department
Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute is committed to bringing Kansas Firefighters an annual Fire School. This new concept of regional one-day seminars will enhance participation thus inspiring young Fire Service leaders to emerge. By cutting costs of an overnight stay, per diem and travel, the one-day format allows fire departments to send more firefighters to training. We want to provide fire departments the most useful means to train their firefighters while keeping training costs to a minimum. We are committed to finding new ways to improve training effectiveness, and we are excited about delivering these individual seminars so that all firefighters can experience a Fire School atmosphere.
Positive Pressure Attack | ||
| March 28 | Lawrence | Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire |
| March 29 | Girard | Greenbush-Southeast Kansas Educational Service Center, 947 West 47 Hwy |
| May 3 | Salina | Kansas Highway Patrol Training Academy, 2025 East Iron |
First Due: Mission Focused Tactics for First-Due Officers | ||
| May 31 | Wichita | Sedgwick County Extension Office, 7001 West 21st St. |
Instructors: Kriss Garcia and Reinhard Kauffmann
In the last two decades, lightweight building construction methods and the use of manmade construction materials and furnishings have become more and more common. The expected time until structural failure occurs in a fire has been reduced, and firefighters have seen hotter fires that generate high levels of deadly gasses. Recent studies by NIST concluded that fires are growing more rapidly, and escape from certain types of fires has been reduced from 17 minutes to 3 minutes. The ventilation methods used by modern firefighters, however, have not kept pace.
Positive pressure was first used in the fire service to ventilate a structure after the fire was knocked down. Battalion Chiefs Kriss Garcia and Reinhard Kauffmann have taken positive pressure a step further. Positive pressure attack (PPA) achieves effective ventilation in coordination with aggressive fire attack. Properly used, PPA allows firefighters greater control over the interior environment of a fire building. It begins at the earliest stages of the operation, when ventilation can provide the greatest benefit for victims, firefighters, and the structure. With a small investment in equipment and a commitment to training, any fire department can implement PPA at the company level.
Instructor: Ed Hadfield
This program will provide company and command officers with the necessary "RPDM" skills to quickly establish a tactical and strategic plan with positive outcomes. The course will highlight command concepts based on building profiles, rescue profiles, and proper tactical considerations for each circumstance. They focus on today’s fireground, not yesterday’s urban myths about firefighting. Officers will develop an Incident Assignment Plan using Mission Focused Principles. Too many of today’s company and command officers accept theoretical tactics, rather than making sound fundamental decisions based upon knowledge of and reality-based facts about a particular incident. This course will expose the danger of using theory in a world of reality.
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