Rescue Me – Managing Employee Fires
(Room 2B)
22 Feb 18
1:00 PM
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5:00 PM
Tracks:
Leadership and Managment
Most fire officers and chiefs will fight more fires in the station than they will out in the streets. This program will utilize basic fireground terminology to break down and make sense of employee coaching, counseling and disciplinary procedures. It will apply such firefighter knowledge as conducting a size up, which will include looking at the building construction (how the employee is built as well as the condition of the building), the extent and location of the fire (the problem) and doing a risk assessment. Once these observations are considered, a strategy can be determined and tactics can be put in place to address the issue. Students will then utilize the acronym RECEO to determine what tactics to use when dealing with a problem employee. Students will also focus on using fire prevention, education, pre-planning and fire behavior recognition training (aka reading smoke) to prevent fires (problems) and keep them small. The instructor will also compare hostile fire events such as rapid fire progression, flashover, backdraft and smoke explosions to the more difficult personnel issues. The course will end with conducting several “fire simulations” using video and role player scenarios.