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TRAINING AT FDIC 2017
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INDEX
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2017 FDIC 9/11 STAIRCLIMB
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Record attendance was achieved at FDIC International 2017. The Fire Department Instructors Conference International (FDIC International) announced a record-breaking attendance of nearly 34,000 attendees from 58 countries at its 90th annual training conference and expo, held at the Indiana Convention Center and Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN April 24-29, 2017. “FDIC International 2017 was a huge achievement for PennWell and the fire service. Its continued growth reflects its reputation for delivering the most advanced training and education from the world’s finest instructors,” said Eric Schlett, Vice President/Executive Director, PennWell Corp. “And with 798 exhibitors demonstrating the latest apparatus and equipment advancements within the fire service, it is clear that firefighters will travel from all corners of the globe to attend this international event.” FDIC International 2017 featured many special events and networking opportunities throughout the week. The NFFF 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb, the Scott Firefighter Combat Challenge, the Firefighter Throwdown Crossfit competition, the HEAT Competition, and the Real Time Outdoor Product Demonstrations provide firefighters with competition and educational opportunities. Many off-site industry association events also take place each year, as well as networking events such as the International Networking Event. As an official event of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Buyers Select Program, FDIC International also provides an International Lounge complete with local area information and translation services for attendees traveling overseas. What to expect at FDIC International 2018: The key to firefighters' success is training, education, and networking, all of which they aggressively pursue at FDIC and bring back home to local departments. Firefighters will see how every element of consequence that impacts firefighting is assembled at FDIC International 2018. The
work behind FDIC International 2018 represents literally everyone you could imagine in the fire service. There will be many new faces at FDIC International 2018—new instructors, new concepts, new products, new thoughts, and new approaches. This is our tradition, firefighters know that without tradition you have no connections; without connections, you cannot understand the past or the present, and you certainly can’t build a future. Our traditions are our foundation. The uninitiated think everything is new, but insiders, those with skin in the game, the FDIC people, know we are building on the foundations laid by millions who came before us and to whom we are grateful. FDIC 2018 offers 28 hands-on training classes, 80 workshops, 200+ classes, the most inspirational keynotes of 2018, an emerging technologies summit, the most comprehensive fire exhibition, the largest stair climb, and countless networking celebrations and unique FDIC traditions that bind us, define us, and connect us. The hands-on training classes are delivered by the most respected and talented firefighters in the world. The workshops will provide the opportunity to get deeper into our personal development and professional expertise and allow for extensive one-on-one with thought leaders. The Main Program speakers are Dan DeGryse, Gavin Horn, Ted Nee, and special guest FEMA Administrator Brock Long. The classes will again create the direction, the intellectual drive, the controversies, and the debates for the coming year. There are literally dozens of special networking events. Beginning on Tuesday night, the Firefighter Cancer Support Network has its comedy night fundraiser. On Wednesday, the Fraternal Order of Leatherheads hosts its F.O.O.L.S. bash. Thursday is the Courage and Valor 5K Fun Run, followed by the National Fallen Firefighters Stop, Drop, and Rock ‘n’ Roll celebration. Also Thursday night is the MSA block party. Friday is the National Fallen Fire-
fighters Foundation Stair Climb and the Indianapolis firefighters’ union party. All week long, the Firefighter Combat Challenge will be going on, as well as dozens of other events and gatherings, all of which are accessible to anyone attending FDIC. Last year 34,000 attendees celebrated the art and science of firefighting. Men and women participated in a moving and respectful Opening Ceremony that commemorated our fallen and celebrated our finest traditions. Firefighters who attended classes shared information, met new friends, and honed their skills to an even finer edge to serve their communities and meet their obligations with even greater skill. Firefighters attend FDIC because it represents who we are. We are the fire service, we are the community, we are neighbors, we operate in the real world together, we drill and train together, and we assemble at this FDIC conference and exhibition together. This is our show, firefighters, men and women who have skin in the game, who respond when called, who never accept how it is but only accept that it will be better. The classes, drills, instructors and speakers were all chosen by us, gritty, street-savvy firefighters who may not have the alphabet after their names, who sometimes drop the wrong kind of adjective when excited, but who struggle every day to be better than yesterday. We hope we’ll see you at FDIC this April. We hope we will see you at our annual FASNY convention in August. Department members are urged to network with one another to purchase group pricing on our FDIC registrations. This is the conference that no volunteer, no career, no industrial firefighter should miss; a conferences that pays the utmost respect to local expertise, that put first and foremost in all they do the interests, concerns and wellbeing of firefighters and our mission first.
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APPARATUS ON DISPLAY
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FDNY FF James Lee, Jr., winner of the 2017 Ray Downey Courage and Valor Award.
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FDNY FF James Lee Jr. Receives 2017's Ray Downey Courage and Valor Award Firefighter James Lee Jr., of the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), was awarded the 2017 Ray Downey Courage and Valor Award. Robert Biolchini, chairman of the board, PennWell Corp., and the initiator of the Ray Downey Courage and Valor Foundation, presented the award at FDIC 2017's Opening Session. Also on stage during the presentation were Selection Committee members FDNY Battalion Chiefs Joe and Chuck Downey, sons of Ray Downey; Chief Ron Siarnicki, executive director of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation; Chief Ron Kanterman, National Fire Academy Alumni Association; several members of the FDNY’s Rescue 1 and FDNY Pipes and Drums; and Bobby Halton, Fire Engineering editor in chief/FDIC education director. Lee, a 13-year member of FDNY, was cited for rescuing in an early-morning, six-alarm fire, 81-year-old Jim Duffy, the occupant of the top-floor apartment of a five-story Old Law tenement that had fire on every floor. Since the building had no rear fire escape, Lee was lowered on a life-saving rope over the rear edge of the building to the window of the fifth-floor to make the rescue in blacked-out conditions and high heat. The rope caught fire while Lee and Duffy were being lowered; it fell apart as they reached the ground. A man on the thirdfloor died, and three other civilians and 11 firefighters suffered minor injuries in the fire. The fire began on the first-floor, blocking residents from escaping through the front door. The audience viewed the Lee rescue story on video. Joe Downey thanked Mr. Biolchini for “memorializing the legacy of his father with the Award, presented in the memories of the FDNY firefighters lost on 9/11. Chuck Downey noted: “This award would brighten our dad’s
JUMP TO FILE #030818110 face, for it simultaneously recognizes the courage and valor of an individual and the courage and valor of our beloved department. Today we celebrate the success of training, courage, teamwork, and the importance of everyone performing their function on the fireground, supporting the mission of the team to the very best of their abilities.” Halton cited Lee for “exemplifying the highest traditions of the fire service.” Mr. Biolchini presented Lee on behalf of PennWell and Fire Engineering with the 2017 Ray Downey Courage and Valor Award and medal, along with a $35,000 check from the Fire Engineering Courage and Valor Foundation. In addition to Lee, nominees for the 2017 Courage and Valor award included the following: FF. Jamie Brock, Townville Volunteer Fire Department, Seneca, SC; Capt. Derek Brown, FFs. Troy Purdy, Shane Farmer and Todd Taylor, Cedar Falls (IA) Fire Rescue; FF/Paramedic David Dame, West Metro Fire Rescue, Lakewood, CO; Lt. Jerry W. Fickes, Wilmington (DE) Fire Department; Engineer Steven Gunn, Peoria (AZ) Fire-Medical; Deputy Sheriff/Field Training Instructor Thomas Junkin, Charleston, SC; Acting T. (former assistant chief) Stan Landry, Vernon (CT) Fire Department; FF. Danny Lovato, Washington, DC, Fire Department; FF. Oliver McDonagh, Philadelphia (PA) Fire Department; Lt. Robert Meuser, Fire Department of New York; FF./Deputy Fire Chief Steven Edward Price, Hamlin (PA) Fire & Rescue Company; Assistant Fire Chief Darren Ware, Prince George’s County, MD. - FDIC
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FDNY FF James Lee Jr. Receives 2017’s Ray Downey Courage and Valor Award Firefighter James Lee Jr., of the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), was awarded the 2017 Ray Downey Courage and Valor Award. Robert Biolchini, chairman of the board, Pen- JUMP TO FILE# nWell Corp., and 030818110 the initiator of the Ray Downey Courage and Valor Foundation, presented the award at FDIC 2017's Opening Session. Also on stage during the presentation were Selection Committee members FDNY Battalion Chiefs Joe and Chuck Downey, sons of Ray Downey; Chief Ron Siarnicki, executive director of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation; Chief Ron Kanterman, National Fire Academy Alumni Association; several members of the FDNY’s Rescue 1 and FDNY Pipes and Drums; and Bobby Halton, Fire Engineering editor in chief/FDIC education director. Lee, a 13-year member of FDNY, was cited for rescuing in an early-morning, six-alarm fire, 81-year-old Jim Duffy, the occupant of the top-floor apartment of a five-story Old Law tenement that had fire on every floor. Since the building had no rear fire escape, Lee was lowered on a life-
saving rope over the rear edge of the building to the window of the fifth-floor to make the rescue in blacked-out conditions and high heat. The rope caught fire while Lee and Duffy were being lowered; it fell apart as they reached the ground. A man on the thirdfloor died, and three other civilians and 11 firefighters suffered minor injuries in the fire. The fire began on the first-floor, blocking residents from escaping through the front door. The audience viewed the Lee rescue story on video. Joe Downey thanked Mr. Biolchini for “memorializing the legacy of his father with the Award, presented in the memories of the FDNY firefighters lost on 9/11. Chuck Downey noted: “This award would brighten our dad’s face, for it simultaneously recognizes the courage and valor of an individual and the courage and valor of our beloved department. Today we celebrate the success of training, courage, teamwork, and the importance of everyone performing their function on the fireground, supporting the mission of the team to the very best of their abilities.” Halton cited Lee for “exemplifying the highest traditions of the fire service.” Mr. Biolchini presented Lee on behalf of PennWell
and Fire Engineering with the 2017 Ray Downey Courage and Valor Award and medal, along with a $35,000 check from the Fire Engineering Courage and Valor Foundation. In addition to Lee, nominees for the 2017 Courage and Valor award included the following: FF. Jamie Brock, Townville Volunteer Fire Department, Seneca, SC; Capt. Derek Brown, FFs. Troy Purdy, Shane Farmer and Todd Taylor, Cedar Falls (IA) Fire Rescue; FF/Paramedic David Dame, West Metro Fire Rescue, Lakewood, CO; Lt. Jerry W. Fickes, Wilmington (DE) Fire Department; Engineer Steven Gunn, Peoria (AZ) Fire-Medical; Deputy Sheriff/Field Training Instructor Thomas Junkin, Charleston, SC; Acting T. (former assistant chief) Stan Landry, Vernon (CT) Fire Department; FF. Danny Lovato, Washington, DC, Fire Department; FF. Oliver McDonagh, Philadelphia (PA) Fire Department; Lt. Robert Meuser, Fire Department of New York; FF./Deputy Fire Chief Steven Edward Price, Hamlin (PA) Fire & Rescue Company; Assistant Fire Chief Darren Ware, Prince George’s County, MD. - FDIC
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FDNY FF James Lee, Jr., winner of the 2017 Ray Downey Courage and Valor Award.
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9/11 NEVER FORGET Mobile Exhibit Visits FDIC Located in the Lucas Oil Stadium, the 9/11 NEVER FORGET Mobile Exhibit is a high-tech, 53-foot t r a c t o r- t r a i l e r, which unfolds into a 1,000-square-foot JUMP TO FILE# exhibit, serving as a 031518107 poignant reminder of that tragic day. The memorial provides interactive education; including artifacts, recordings of first responder radio transmissions, and live tours by FDNY firefighters. Admission is free. - FDIC
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FACES OF FDIC
2017 F.O.O.L.S. BROTHERHOOD BASH
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John Salka is a 33-year veteran of the FDNY, and retired as a battalion chief in the Bronx. John served as the co-lead instructor for the H.O.T. Firefighter Safety and Survival program at FDIC for over ten years, serves on the FDIC advisory board, and is the co-host for the radio show “The Command Post” heard on Fire Engineering Talk Radio. John is the author of the best-selling books “First In Last Out Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department” and “The Engine Company.” He received the 2001 FDIC Training Achievement Award for his Get Out Alive firefighter survival training program and travels extensively training firefighters throughout the 50 states and Canada in tactics, strategy, leadership and safety & survival. JEFFREY BELSCHWINDER/SIDEWINDER PHOTOGRAPHY
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