what are your departments priorities?

[Pedro911 22]

Question: Would your Dept. be intrepid enough to sink at least 75% of next years parade budget into operations training?

If no, why not?

If yes, what would your training priorities be?

Thanks

Edited July 9, 2011 by Pedro911

[Pedro911 22]

yes or no is TBD,

Although there are countless training topics that need attention, the training priorities for my F.D. would be:

Extrication (MVA)

Initial attack (Resd and Comm)

EMS continuing education (trauma)

[FFPCogs 863]

We don't have a parade budget, but if we did it would come about only after the service side is fully taken care of. Now if we were to come upon an unexpected budget or fund drive (which buys our equip and rigs) windfall it would without fail be put towards outfitting and training our members.

Given the opprotunity i would spend any additional training money on the following:

EMT certification across the board

As many live fire evolutions as I could squeeze out of the funds

Rescue beyond simple vehicle extrication such as building collapse, railway, heavy vehicle ect

Officer development

There's really no limits as to what I would like to see money spent on when it comes to training, but since fire duty overall is way down from years past I would use the funds to give members the taste of fire inasmuch as a training building allows...no gas grills Class A burn buildings only.

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