Risk Managment: Downward Trend in Firefighter Deaths Fortunately, there appears to be a clear downward trend in firefighter deaths since the late 1970’s when the annual average was more than eighty a year. However, in 2018 there was a sharp drop to forty-eight total...
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Fire and EMS instructors have to be flexible and accept accept the fact that they will be adapting to the new normal in fire and EMS training. Not only is this true in our personal lives, but in our careers as well. We simply can’t wait...
Every emergency response agency should be aware of some key actions to retaining and training volunteer firefighters. Although seventy (70) percent of all firefighters in the United States are volunteers, in the last fifty years there has been a steady decline in...
Here are 8 reasons to use Online Firefighter Training from Action Training Systems. Oh, Wait! Actually there are many more than 8 reasons, but for now, we’ll focus on these eight: excellent customer support, cost-effectiveness, compliance, flexibility, testing...
Using Online Training Keeps Your Program on Track Now, amid the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19, online and hybrid training models have become an exceptional solution to keep firefighter and EMS training on track. Fire and EMS departments have been using these...
Guest blog written for Action Training Systems by Battalion Chief Robert Avsec (Ret.) Since the early days of the Republic, volunteer firefighters have played a key role in providing fire protection in communities across the U.S. The last several decades, however, the...
