Greetings!!!!

Greetings, all fire enthusiasts. My name is Dakota, and I am the Training Chairperson for the Michigan Prescribed Fire Council (MPFC). The idea for “10 Minutes for Training” comes from feedback that I have heard from people in the field. Firefighters (from newbie to supervisor) struggle to fit training into their schedules. There’s also a misconception of what training is. You have your conventional class room training, like S-130/190, that does take a significant chunk of time to complete. And then you are less conventional ways. Training can be as simple as practicing assembling a drip torch once a month, or sending a newbie to look through a cabinet on the engine. Or for supervisors, sending out a YouTube video on something fire for your crew to watch.

So, to meet the needs of continuing education, I’ll post trainings here once a month that will only take 10 minutes or less to do. As firefighters, we value safety first. Training is the key to maintaining safety. If taking 10 minutes a month to practice your job, it could save your life, and that is solid safety. While as the training chair and seasoned firefighter I have lots of ideas, I am very open to input/other presenters/fresh ideas. If you feel uncomfortable creating a training but have an idea, please email it and we will post it for you.

Also, keep an eye out for a training series called “Fire Line Training Time”. This will consist of videos from me, along with other firefighters, containing information about this job—from tips and tricks, to information and demonstration of different topics. This is an open forum and we’d love your input, too. If you have some tricks that you have picked up over the years, please share. If you feel like you can make a video, please send it to us, and we will post it to our page and give you credit.

While this is a product of the MPFC and its members, we welcome anyone in fire around the country to take part in these trainings.

Let us know if there’s a certain topic you want to learn about, or if there’s more content you’d like to see. Remember, we never rise to the occasion, we fall to the level of our training. Be safe out there.

-Dakota

 

 

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