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Sections»Fire Training Safety and Officers

Welcome

Welcome to the Fire, Training & Safety Officers, Leaders in Training, Education and Safety.

Our Purpose:

To promote uniform training practices throughout the state of Washington.
To upgrade fire department training and training personnel within the fire departments of Washington State.
To make available technical information and guidance to the members of this Section.
To promote training programs for Training, Safety & Officers’.
To exchange information and training aids.
To promote and assist in the development of fire service performance standards.
To promote safety practices in all phases of fire department activities.
To actively seek uniformity in all fire service and fire related college curriculum.
To upgrade fire officer leadership and management skills and knowledge within the fire departments of Washington State.
To identify and make available technical information and guidance to the members of this section.
To advocate and support networking between fire officers in Washington State.
To promote and assist in the development of fire service leadership standards.

FIRE TRAINING, SAFETY & OFFICERS SECTION RECENT NEWS

Posted: Apr 11, 2013

New EVIP Program

The Washington Fire Chiefs EVIP Program is changing. As most of you know, the EVIP program is due for re-accreditation in 2013. Rather than update the existing program, the EVIP committee elected to go in a different direction.

We have attempted to update the materials to make both the instructors' and students' jobs easier. This new program has a section which spells out the annual continuing education requirements, such as: Accident Case Reviews, Rodeo, Road Course, etc. It also has an Instructor re-certification requirement whereby instructors must attend a Train-the-Trainer course once every five years...

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Posted: Mar 15, 2013

9/11: The Lasting Impact On Fire and Emergency Services

On September 10, 2001, my wife and I started moving into our new home. Two months late getting the house completed, we had grown impatient and were glad to finally be moving in. Our plan was to get all the furniture and “big stuff” in on the 10th and then get all the “other stuff” in on the 11th. As we got started early on the morning of the 11th, we did not yet have our cable TV hooked up and our radio was still packed away, since it was “small stuff.” My wife ...