ALL CREW MEMBERS NEED:

 

6 - 3 hour drills/year (18 hours)

• Company drills must be oriented to structure fire topics/tasks

• Are supposed to be physically demanding

• Cannot be logged simultaneously with other categories (20-hr, driver training etc…)

• If you have met your 6 3-hour company drills/year, further 3-hour drills should be used to fulfill the 16-hr category.

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16 hours of firefighting training/month (company training)

• This training is separate from the 3 hour drills, officer, driver/operator, and hazardous materials training.  Company training cannot be logged with other training.

• Individual or company training that is performed on duty and frequently at the station.

• Usually classroom type instruction but drills other than required 3-hour drills may count.

• Examples include:

  • Simulator work

  • Post incident analysis

  • Pre-fire planning (OP07)

  • Building familiarization

  • Area familiarization: Captain and firefighter use area familiarization code (OP26) and engineer uses (TP04)

 

60 hour training/year for New Driver/Operator

• This category is only for the firefighter

• Do not use this training simultaneously with other training categories

• Examples include:

  • Firefighters preparing for an engineer test

  • Pumping drill

  • Driving

  • Operating aerial platform equipment

  • MCS drills if drilling in the Engineer position

  • Pump theory / Hydraulics

  • Probationary packet material

  • Weekly truck checks for the time to complete (TP03)

  • Review of State or Federal driving laws and safety

  

12 hour continuing education Officer training/year

• Do not use this training simultaneously with other training categories.

• For officers only

• Examples include:

  • Leadership training

  • Management

  • Executive skills

  • Probationary packet

  • Tactics and Strategy

  • ICS

  • Supervisor Meetings

  • Acting Battalion Chief

 

12 hour continuing education Driver/Operator Training

• This training is for the existing Engineer only

• Do not use this training simultaneously with other training categories

• Examples include:

  • Pumping drill

  • Driving

  • Operating aerial platform equipment

  • MCS drills

  • Pump theory / Hydraulics

  • Probationary packet material

  • Weekly truck checks for the time to complete (TP03)

  • Review of State or Federal driving laws and safety

 

6 hour Hazardous Materials training/year​

• Do not use this training simultaneously with other training categories

• Anything associated with hazardous material incident control (could be confined space)

• Examples include:

  • Haz-Mat ICS organization

  • Radioactivity training

  • Operations / technician information