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Professional Standards and Training
Training Officers Attend FDIC –
BC Marzolf, Captain Smith, FAO Bauers, and FF Engberg attended the 2022 FDIC Conference in Indianapolis, IN in April. While there, they each took the opportunity to hone their skills in a variety of trainings ranging from Leadership and Succession Planning to an Elevator Emergency Management/Operations H.O.T. class. Through these various classes, they each have brought back ideas and techniques to add to the SFFR toolbox. You will see some of these in upcoming drills and lectures. Thank you to all of them for their continued commitment to the betterment of the Professional Standards and Training division and SFFR.
Happy training and if you need any assistance from the training center please reach out. We are glad to help.
Annual Program and Performance
Indicator Appraisals — We are implementing a new process to conduct annual appraisals on our primary programs of service. These appraisals of such programs as Fire Suppression, EMS, Public Education, and etc. have been identified as a 3rd Quarter ROCK for the department. Meetings have been held with the key players in each of the areas and program appraisals have begun and are moving forward. These appraisals will be used in rewriting our Community Risk Assessment and Standard of Cover along with developing our 2024 budget requests, 2023 VTO planning, 2024 FTE requests, and updating pertinent documents which will be used during the 2023 accreditation peer assessor site visit. This first time around will be a heavy lift and I want to thank all involved for their hard work and dedication.
Logistics Requests — Since the discussion during the June team forum, utilization of Doug Swartz for logistic support has had a slight increase. We would like to continue to do our best at keeping crews intact and in station ready for emergency response so please don’t hesitate to reach out with any of your stations logistic needs. If you have any suggestions or ideas on how to make this process even more efficient and effective, please let me know.
Late Summer, Fall, and Winter
Certification Courses — Enrollment for upcoming classes are open within Target
Dog Days of Summer! — Our portable props have started their rotations among the stations so now is a good time to review SOP 801.9 for Extreme Weather Training. Please review the “Extreme Heat” section for information on heat related guidelines. The following is the station rotations: Solutions and now is the time to get signed up. Not only will it help you organize your training throughout the remainder of the year it will also allow us to organize the training and pre-course assignments for you. Take this opportunity to get signed up and prepared. The following are a few of the upcoming opportunities:
1. Fire Apparatus Certification Course will be held August 22nd through
September 2nd.
2. National Fire Academy Hazmat
Incident Management (N0243) course will be held September 19th through September 24th.
3. Safety Officer will be offered
November 14-16th, please reference AP 600.1 in regards to the requirement to obtain this certification prior to the 7th year of service.
4. Fire Officer II Certification Course will be held December 12th through
December 16th.
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