Accepting applications for wait list only.
Please note: The starting date for this class was previously incorrect. It will start 10/14 and end on 10/16.
The purpose of the IAFF Fire Ground Survival program is to ensure that training for Mayday prevention and Mayday operations are consistent between all firefighters, company officers, and chief officers. Fire fighters must be trained to perform potentially life-saving actions if they become lost, disoriented, injured, low on air, or trapped. From the first-in recruit to the experienced commanding officer, the FGS program provides all levels of staff the step-by-step tools to use whether they are caught in the Mayday or leading the rescue. Through the use of mnemonics, case studies, personal experiences, and real-time communications, personnel throughout the ranks will learn the life-saving techniques they need to know to facilitate a successful Mayday rescue.
Preventing the Mayday: situational awareness, planning, size up, air management, fitness for survival, defensive operations.
Being Ready for the Mayday: personal safety equipment, communications, accountability systems.
Self-Survival Procedures: avoiding panic, mnemonic learning aid “GRAB LIVES” – actions a firefighter must take to improve survivability, emergency breathing.
Self-Survival Skills: SCBA familiarization, emergency procedures, disentanglement, upper-floor escape techniques.
Managing a Mayday: command-level Mayday training, pre-Mayday, Mayday and rescue, post-rescue, expanding the incident command system, communications.