Where Can I Find Funding or Grants? Show Me the Money! Finding funding and grants for fire service training is an important way for fire departments to support their operations and their mission of providing services to their community. Grants can be used for many...
Styles of Learning People learn in many different ways. For some, certain ways are more effective than others to grasp and retain information. This is why adapting to different learning styles is so important when training in the fire service. Fire department...
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...