Engine Operations
Located in North Liberty, IA

Iowa FireNuggets presents a 1-day hands-on class covering all things Engine, including: nozzle mechanics, flow transitions, hoseline pushes, pinch point work, minute man bundle, stretching, and more. All day hands-on work and scenarios.

Instructed by Kyle Romagus, Jon Brumley, and Chris Gilpin.

VES: Inside & Outside the Box
Instructed by Justin Hanley

This program takes the tips, tricks, and ideas we are being taught and sews them into a successful fabric. VES is simple, yet dynamic. This class will work on defining the basics and then refining them both inside and outside the window. VES begins with mindset. Successful implementation requires proficiency in the small things. These details cost us nothing to perfect, but can cost THEM everything when we don't perform.

1-Day HOT Class
May 19 or 20, 2025 | 0900-1700
Buffalo Grove, IL

First Due Operations with Live Fire
The Brickyard - McClellan Park, CA

This three day course will allow participants to learn, apply, develop, and coordinate effective fire suppression tactics in IDLH conditions. It is imperative that first responders train in like environments with multi-tasking coordination and effective communication while stabilizing an incident. This course is fluid and demanding, with all firefighting skill sets being applied. Everything will be covered, from back seat size-up to the seat of the fire! This is the first time this class will be offered outside of the Fresno Fire Symposium.

Feat. Special Guest:
Ret. Assistant Chief Tom Siragusa

NFPA Rope Rescue Technician
June 2-6, 2025 | 8AM-4PM/PST

Rope Rescue Technician is a dynamic 40+ hour advanced ropes course designed for firefighters and other rescue professionals.

This is a fast-paced course, with emphasis on real-world applications and scenario-based, hands-on training in both urban and wilderness settings.

Key topics include use of ropes, knots, rigging and pulley systems; multi-point anchors; descending, rappelling, belaying tools and techniques; high angle victim packaging; load releasing systems; use of a "set of 4's"; rescue scene organization and management; unsupported rope ascent; supported and unsupported pick-off rescues; protected lead climbing; high angle litter rigging and tending; use of artificial high directionals; and rope systems to facilitate horizontal movement. Upon completion, students will have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to fulfill the JPR's for technician level rope rescue, established in NFPA 1006 (2017 ed.). This course is taught by current Rescue Specialists from Empact’s Urban Search and Rescue Task Force who are also current Fire Service based technical rescue providers and instructors.

This course is specifically designed for firefighters who seek to minimize property damage during less critical responses. The course covers practical lock-picking methods for padlocks, residential locks, and fire control systems such as alarm panels and pull stations.

You will learn techniques for bypassing secondary door latches, electronic entry systems, and utilizing specialty tools to efficiently gain access in various situations. 

Each student is provided with a lock picking kit.

Instructed by Ambassadors of the Craft

On Day One, of this comprehensive two-day course, students will learn grips, flowing while moving, cornermanagement, hose management, water mapping, stair pushes, hose deployment, and engine companybased forcible entry / search. Day Two will incorporate all of those skills into scenarios with live fire.

A five day (40 hour), physically demanding course held in Shoreline, Washington.  This class is designed for experienced firefighters to gain advanced knowledge in truck company operations. Students will be given high repetition training opportunities in a variety of environments including acquired structures and live fire.

Attendees will be given training opportunities in a variety of skills including:

- Ventilation
- Forcible Entry
- Search & Rescue
- Building Construction
- Live Fire

Have any questions? Send us an email at shorelinetruckcadre@gmail.com

Live Fire Leadership
June 25-27, 2025
Hayward, CA

The Live Fire Leadership program has been designed to provide current and future officers of all experience levels realistic scenarios that both educate and challenge them.  Officer development in the fire service has always focused on general leadership skills, fire inspections, conducting company drills, and communication skills.  While training and educating in these areas are vital to success, they do not address our primary fire service mission of saving lives, while ensuring the safety of the firefighters.
Fireground leadership starts with solid firehouse leadership, but it also requires skills that are rarely taught outside the classroom. This training and the learning objectives associated with it will greatly enhance the students ability to lead on the fireground. The following are the learning objectives for

CLASSROOM:
- Situational Awareness
- Size up
- District Knowledge
 - Decision Making Skills
- Fire Behavior / Reading Smoke
 - Reading Buildings
- Overcoming Fireground Challenges

TRAINING GROUND (HOT):
 - Radio Communications
- Fireground Size up & 360
- Decision Making & Prioritizing
- Fireground Assignments
- Directing Company Actions
- Tactical Changes
- Mayday Management
- CAN Reporting
- Overcoming Different & Difficult Stretches
- Fire Attack
 - Search & Rescue
 - Personnel Matters
- General Public Issues

CLASS DESIGNED FOR

All ranks.  You are on the job, now get into the job!

CLASS SCHEDULE

June 25 - Classroom Session ONLY - 0800-1700
June 26 - Live Fire Day 1 - 0800-1700
June 27 - Live Fire Day 2 - 0800-1700

REQUIRED GEAR

Full Turnouts
SCBA
Extra Air Cylinder

INSTRUCTOR

Todd Edwards has over 36 years of experience in the fire services. Starting his career at 16 years old with a small combination department in Ohio, Todd then moved to Georgia where he spent more than 30 years with Atlanta Fire Rescue.  During his career with Atlanta, he held a variety of positions including Captain, Battalion Chief and Assistant Fire Chief.  While with Atlanta, Todd developed and taught the majority of the city training curriculum, and co-developed the city Standard Operating Guidelines.  After retiring in 2018, he served the city as a consultant and the lead instructor / coordinator for Atlanta’s Officer Development Program.  While working with Atlanta, Todd was also the Lead Instructor for Walton County Fire Rescue in northeast Georgia.  For the past 20 years, Todd has also been an adjunct instructor for the Georgia Fire Academy.  Todd has also developed countless training programs currently being utilized by numerous departments, specializing in department-based curriculums for training and fire ground operations.

RESCUE 4 OPERATIONS PRESENTS:
Heavy Vehicle Rescue & Rigging

HOSTED BY: 
Kitsap County Fire Training Consortium in partnership with Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One, KSORT, Paratech, LN Curtis, and Bethel Towing.

24 HOURS (3 DAYS) OF HANDS-ON TRAINING INCLUDING:
- Multiple Hands-On Training Scenarios
- Realistic extrication challenges
- Cement trucks, tractor/trailers, box vans and school busses
- Over-rides, under-rides, and overturned vehicles
- Assisting with heavy tow trucks
- Commercial vehicle anatomy
- Advanced heavy vehicle stabilization
- Heavy lifting techniques
- Latest stabilization & extrication equipment

WHEN:
August 18th - 20th
0900 - 1700

WHERE:
Kitsap Readiness Center
5151 Linden St.
Bremerton, Washington 98312

Irons Ready
Presented by Brothers in Battle
Calumet City, Illinois

Many say they are the keys to the city, but this is only if you understand how to maximize the designed mechanical advantage, leverage and force of these tools. Once you do, you can problem solve and work through many common fireground forcible entry challenges and know when and how to change things up and think or work outside the box to get the job done.

This class is all about Irons work and it’s so much more than access, it’s addressing the main paths of egress! Upon completion of this course Firefighters will be able to dress and set up their tools for success, perform a rapid size up to identify and defeat multiple forcible entry challenges, perform initial interior size up, account for door control, effectively use commands to enhance communication, develop good striking techniques, and perform the appropriate standardized techniques while working alone or as part of a team.

Seconds do count, we will be able to mask up quickly, make the force and make the grab, NOT EXCUSES!

To effectively mitigate a high stress, unpredictable event, we must be able to communicate to all rescue members our intent and predict each other’s actions based on standardized training and techniques.

SKILLS & TOPICS

● 1 & 2 FF Inward opening doors

● 1 & 2 FF Outward opening doors

● Limited access / dead end hallways

● Bottom of the stairs

● Limited / Zero visibility forcible entry

● Additional leverage / limited Tools

● *Wood Jamb / Baseball Bat swing technique if necessary prop available

● Dirty Drags

● Mask Up Skills

Nozzle Forward - Instructed by Aaron Fields
October 25-26, 2025 | Kalamazoo, MI

Nozzle Forward is an immersive two-day course designed to seamlessly integrate the three essential pillars of engine company operations: fire behavior, hose management, and fire attack.

At the heart of every fire department in the country is the fire hose – the key tool in every firefighting operation. Each fire inevitably involves the deployment of a hose line and the flow of water, and “Nozzle Forward” is crafted specifically for engine company crews to master this crucial task. This is not simply a collection of techniques; it is a flexible, adaptable system for hose-line management and effective fire attack.

The focus of this class is on interior offensive firefighting – an aggressive and proactive approach that we proudly embrace. Aggressive firefighting is not a problem; it is the solution.

The mission of “Nozzle Forward” is to elevate engine companies by enhancing individual proficiency with their tools and expanding their understanding of the fire environment, leading to more efficient, effective operations in the heat of the moment.

Turning GRABS into reality - experience the intensity of real documented rescues and the work required to perform them.

We will push you to the limit - under pressure and under fire.

Instructed by Brothers in Battle, LLC

1-Day Class | 0800-2000
Sat. November 15 or Sun. November 16
Full PPE & SCBA required | Lunch will be provided!

This is BIB newest HOT program and will be the first ever GRABS class! Expect a long day of gritty, hands-on work. Scenarios include LIVE FIRE and LIVE VICTIMS and are influenced by real documented rescues from the Firefighter Rescue Survey. The corresponding rescue data will be available to students following the class.