Basic Railcar Response
Required Equipment: Will need helmet (rescue helmet preferred), leather gloves, safety glasses and footwear that provides ankle support, and long pants.
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Mike Cheney, Cedar Rapids Fire Department
Objective: The course is for non-hazardous materials technicians you will acquire a basic knowledge of tank cars to help a responder accurately identify tank car type and basic safety and awareness to get through the first hours of a rail incident.

Saturday (9:00 am - 12:00 pm) Section #: 092858 Cost: $25

Courage to Be Safe So Everyone Goes Home
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Randy Novak, Bureau Chief, Fire Service Training Bureau, Ames
Objective: Firefighters must have the courage to face a multitude of risks in order to save lives and protect their communities. Their courage allows them to willingly risk their own lives so that others can be saved. A different type of courage is required to stay safe in potentially dangerous situations, avoiding needless risks and tragic consequences. The intent of this presentation is to influence the participants toward changing the attitudes that firefighter deaths are a normal and acceptable outcome. This program promotes the courage to do the right thing in order to protect firefighters from illness, injury or death “So that Everyone Goes Home”.

Emergency Care for the Burn Patient
For: All Fire, EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
EMS Credit: Approved for 3.0 FE EMS Credit
Instructor(s): Jackie Heinle, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Department of Nursing, Iowa City
Objective: The purpose of this program is to provide current emergency care management and interventions to the critically injured adult and pediatric burn patient. Upon completion of this topics you will be able to: Identify the components of the primary and secondary survey and identify management techniques for the burn victim; determine the depth of burn injury and the extent of the burn size; estimate and initiate fluid resuscitation needs for the burn patient.

Saturday (9:00 am - 12:00 pm) Section #: 092865 Cost: $25

Firefighter Down: Taking Care of Injured Firefighters
For: All Fire, EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
EMS Credit: Approved for 3.0 FE EMS Credit
Instructor(s): Mike Nesslage, Hiawatha Fire Department
Objective: You respond to fires; you know how to do rehab; but are you really ready to take care of an injured firefighter? This is a three hour interactive course, using case studies and hand’s on practice to take a look at critical injuries and illnesses that occur during firefighting. We’ll take an in depth look at mechanism of injury/illness, assessment techniques, the challenges of treating firefighters at emergency scenes. We’ll also discuss some critical prevention methods. Appropriate for First Responder through Paramedic Specialist.

Saturday (9:00 am — 12:00 pm) Section #: 092868 Cost: $25

Firehouse Software: Above and Beyond!
For: All Fire, EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Jason Trotter, Director of Sales, FIREHOUSE Software
Objective: One of the guidelines on Wall Street is “cash is king”. On Main Street (public safety in particular) a principal guideline is “data is king”. Much of our life in the public sector is about measuring, quantifying, and justifying — if we can’t do this, we can’t fulfill our obligation to the community. Only with data can we effectively measure our service, justify our needs/existence, ensure we’re making the most of the resources we have, and provide measurable value to our community. Geared for Fire/Emergency Services managers (chiefs, directors, officers, and administration) this class will first focus on this basic, but critical, component of Fire/Emergency services by exploring the functions and capabilities of software with real life scenarios and solutions. But that’s just the beginning” The value of data has compounded in recent years with the growing need for interoperability, expanded communications, field operations, and managing day-to-day business of public safety. We’ll investigate how each of these needs can be met using software, through group discussion, and specific examples. With these tools you can assess your agency’s potential and determine how you can make the most of your data.

Hybrid Vehicle Awareness for Emergency Responders
For: All Fire, EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
EMS Credit: Approved for 3.0 OE EMS Credit
Instructor(s): Brent Smith, Cedar Rapids Fire Department and Coralville Fire Department
Objective: This 3-hour power packed class will cover the differences and complexities of the ever expanding fleets of hybrid vehicles on the roads today. Fully electrical cars, hydrogen vehicles, gass/electric vehicles, LPG vehicles, and flex fuel engines. This course will cover how hybrids work, how to identify hybrids, what to do differently in an MVA. A hands-on review of a variety of hybrid vehicles and their parts including voltage systems, power cables, battery locations, airbag considerations and overall safety will be provided. Students will leave with actual emergency guides, lists of resources to use, as well as a variety of SOP’s in use around the country. Open to all fire and other emergency responders who respond to accidents involving motor vehicles.

Incident Command System (ICS) on the Fire Scene
For: All Fire, EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
EMS Credit: Approved for 3.0 EMS Credit
Instructor(s): Kevin Wieser, Manchester Fire Department
Objective: Understand how the NIMS system works and communications on the fire ground for mutual aid and interagency cooperation. Where do you fit in?

Sunday (12:30 - 3:30 pm) Section #: 092903 Cost: $25

Public Education Programs: Is Your Department Participating?
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Jim Plunket, Lombard Fire Department; Illinois
Objective: One of the best ways to prevent a fire is through education. This seminar will give your Fire department the tools needed in Fire and Emergency medical programs for First grade through Sixth grade that don’t cost an arm and a leg, basically free.

Sunday (8:30 - 11:30 am) Section #: 092908 Cost: $25

Public Information Officer: Basis for the Firefighter
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Jim Plunket, Lombard Fire Department; Illinois
Objective: The subjects covered in this program are the basis that are needed to survive the media at an emergency incident are as follows: Could this happen in your town? Preparing for the on camera interview, sweaty pale, dry mouth syndrome; Writing a press release; Working with the media in non-emergency situations; and Making your department look good at all times.

Sunday (12:30 pm - 3:30 pm) Section #: 092909 Cost: $25

Reading Smoke: What You Need to Know?
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Kevin Wieser, Manchester Fire Department
Objective: One of the most important sizeup skills an officer or firefighter can have is the ability to capture in an instant the size of a fire and the potential for a rapid, hostile fire event like flashover or smoke explosion. Often smoke issuing from a structure is the only clue available to predict fire behavior. This session gives firstdue fire officers and firefighters a process to read smoke and predict hostile fire events.

Sorbents:Dealing with Leaks and Spills
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Doug Fauble, EcoSolutions, LLC, Iowa
Objective: In this course you will learn how to safely mitigate a spill; sorbent identification and applications along with the Regulations - EPA Federal, Iowa Department of Natural Resources and OSHA. SPCC - Business has an October 31, 2007 compliance deadline, how will this impact spill response?

Saturday (1:00 pm - 4:00 pm) Section #: 092887 Cost: $25
Sunday (8:30 am - 11:30 am) Section #: 092913 Cost: $25

Treating Public Safety Injuries
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
EMS Credit: Approved for 3.0 FE EMS Credit
Instructor(s): Mike Nesslage, Paramedic Specialist, Hiawatha Fire Department
Objective: Injuries occurring to public safety workers create challenges for EMS personnel. In the second part of our class, we’ll continue using case studies and hands on scenarios to a look at critical injuries and illnesses that occur at emergency scenes. This class will look at injuries occurring to EMT’s, Police Officers, and other public safety responders. We’ll continue to discuss the mechanism of injury/nature of illness, assessment, and treatment of these injuries. Appropriate for First Responder through Paramedic Specialist.

Sunday (8:30 am - 11:30 am) Section #: 092900 Cost: $25

Advanced Auto Extrication
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing and safety glasses, will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
EMS Credit: Approved for EMS Credit
For: All Fire, EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Fire Service Training Bureau Staff
Objective: This 6-hour advanced course builds upon the basics of vehicle extrication, including vehicle anatomy, scene assessment, hazard control, scene stabilization, disentanglement techniques and procedures, tool selection and personal safety. Advanced extrication techniques will be performed on a number of different vehicles by participants utilizing various hand, pneumatic and hydraulic powered tools. Advanced scenarios will be utilized in this program.

Advanced Firefighting
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing and SCBA will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Marv Trimble, Cedar Rapids Fire Department and Staff
Objective: For those who think they have done it all, this course is designed to challenge those firefighters who are Firefighter I. In this course you will learn to respect all the tools that firefighters use. From SCBAs to hose and nozzles. In this course you will learn to use equipment that may not be yours. Full turn out with SCBA and a spare bottle are required along with all the regulations covering use of this equipment, clean shaven and long pants and shirts are required for this class. We will incorporate the use of imaging cameras in this class if possible. A one day down and dirty class.

Basic Vehicle Extrication
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing and safety glasses, will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
EMS Credit: Approved for EMS Credit
For: All Fire, EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Bob Sandry, Sandry Fire Supply and Staff
Objective: Auto accidents are the leading cause of accidental injury and death, and are some of the most common rescues that we respond to. Injured victims can be entrapped by the vehicle, requiring efficient and effective extrication operations to free them. Improper extrication methods can cause unwanted movement and additional injury to these patients. This course will give the student the techniques needed to safely size-up and mitigate an emergency involving an automobile type vehicle. Students will learn the proper procedures for vehicle stabilization, patient disentanglement and removal. This course will give the students hands-on experience with various types of rescue tools.

Saturday (9:00 am - 4:00 pm) Section #: 092859 Cost: $50

Building Construction; ICF, SIP, and TJI, What?
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Dennis Correll, Medford, Minnesota
Objective: Technologies in the building industries are changing. But is your department prepared for the change? Have you thought about how ICF, SIP and TJI technology effects your fire fighting response? Do you even know what stuff is? While these changes are driven by the increase in energy cost, building codes, and the need for better and longer lasting materials. This type of construction dramatically changes the response to incidents within these types of buildings. In this class you will get a chance to see these materials first hand and how they go together. We will discuss the differences, and how it might change your tactics based on the incident.

Saturday (9:00 am - 4:00 pm) Section #: 092861 Cost: $42

Combine Extrication
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing, will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
For: All Fire, EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
EMS Credit: Approved for 6.0 OE EMS Credit
Instructor(s): Dan Neenen, Paramedic, NECAS (National Education Center for Agricultural Safety)
Objective: This hands on two day program will take an in-depth look at Agricultural trauma including injuries a combine entrapment. The hands on portion of the program will deal with trauma patient care, cribbing, extrication tools. Students will perform several evolutions in patient extrication.

Confined Space Rescue
Required Equipment: Helmets, leather gloves, safety glasses and footwear that provides ankle support will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
EMS Credit: Approved for 6.0 OE EMS Credit
For: All Fire, EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Fire Service Bureau Field Instructors and PRI Instructors
Objective: This course is designed to provide basic information for confined space rescue responses. The focus is on the hazardous atmospheres, because this is most often confronted in a confined space. Students will practice rescue techniques in a State-of-the-Art training simulator for both horizontal and vertical rescues. Students will understand facility pre-planning, working with the IMS and establish procedures for conducting rescues.

Saturday (9:00 am - 4:00 pm) Section #: 092862 Cost: $35

Critical Search Operations
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing and safety glasses will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Fred Malven, Dean Tope and Staff of the Nevada Fire Department
Objective: Life safety should be the top fire service priority at every emergency.
Firefighters have to be ready to perform a thorough search for victims and, if necessary, remove or protect them from harm under extreme conditions, at any time. And, they have to be prepared to save themselves or their colleagues, should they become trapped, disoriented or disabled. Is your department ready? Are you ready? This hands-on class is will focus on strategies for searching for, finding, protecting and removing emergency victims, while maximizing the firefighter’s own safety. Mini-lectures before numerous hands-on exercises are intended to be fun but challenging and informative. They will focus on four search dimensions: Search size-up and strategy; Accessing victims; Victim management ; and Escape.

Saturday (9:00 am - 4:00 pm) Section #: 092864 Cost: $46
Sunday (8:30 am - 3:30 pm) Section #: 092898 Cost: $46

Emergency Vehicle Driver Training
Required Material: Must have a valid driver's license.
EMS Credit: Approved for 6.0 OE EMS Credit
For: All Fire, EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Tracy Haus, Runnells Fire Department
Objective: Each year approximately twenty five percent (25%) of the firefighters killed in the line of duty are either responding to or returning from the scene of an emergency incident. This comprehensive course, developed by the Volunteer Fire Insurance Services (VFIS), is designed to prepare emergency responders with the necessary skills and knowledge to drive emergency vehicles. This program will help emergency responders understand the possible problems with driving emergency vehicles, and how to safely operate these vehicles.

Ethanol Emergencies for the First Responder
For: All Fire, EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
EMS Credit: Approved for 6.0 OE EMS Credit
Instructor(s): Linn County HazMat Team Members, Chad Dunham, Brad Ransford, Tom Ulrich and Tom Clymer
Objective: One of the fastest growing industries in Iowa brings numerous challenges to the first responder. This course will cover a variety of topics including hazardous materials, fire, and response to transportation emergencies. Students will learn common hazardous substances along with the hazards they pose while being used in these plants. Students will participate in group activities and tabletop exercise.

Saturday (9:00 am - 4:00 pm) Section #: 092866

Foam Operations: Class A & B Fires
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing and SCBA, will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Staff, Task Force Tips, Inc., Indiana
Objective: This class will explore both Class A and B Foam applications. Students will learn the differences in foams, proper use of foam equipment such as foam educators, proportioners, and foam nozzles, as well as application techniques and tactics. This class features table top demonstrations of current foam concentrates and is designed to give fire fighters a basic understanding of their equipment and how to achieve more effective control and extinguishment of fires involving ordinary combustibles and flammable liquids. First half is classroom. Second half is practical applications.

Saturday (9:00 am - 4:00 pm) Section #: 092867 Cost: $50

Hazardous Materials Size-Up
For: All Fire EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
EMS Credit: Approved for 6.0 OE EMS Credit
Instructor(s): Rocky Bell, Bell Emergency Training, Alliance, Nebraska
Objective: One of the most important sets in mitical of a hazardous materials incident is the initial “size up” of the scene. If the size up is done correctly, the incident commander will have accurate, comprehensive information on which to base the objectives and goals of your response. This class is designed to instructor students, of all levels of response, on the components of hazardous materials size up. The goals and objectives of the class are met with lecture, live fire and chemical demonstrations, actual haz-mat scenarios and student interaction.

Saturday (9:00 am - 4:00 pm) Section #: 092869 Cost: $50

Interior Fire Attack: Ground Level Entry
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing and SCBA will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Fire Service Training Bureau Field Instructors
Objective: Students will gain information and practice the skills required to enter structures at ground level. The basic principles of fire fighter safety, fire behavior, thermal layering, flameover, backdraft, ventilation, stages of fire and fire streams will be reviewed in the classroom. Students will put their knowledge to use in the Fire Service Training Bureau’s two-story Mobile Fire Training Trailer. The trailer will simulate conditions encountered in actual interior structure fires. During the eveolutions the student will be able to practice SCBA usage, hose handling skills, communications, and fire attacks simulating ground level and basement fires. Prerequisites for this course are: Basic knowledge and experience in the areas of: safety; fire behavior; personal protective equipment (PPE); ventilation; and fire hose, appliances, and fire streams.

Interior Fire Attack: Ladder Entry
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing and SCBA will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Fire Service Training Bureau Field Instructors
Objective: In this course the student will gain information and practice the skills required to enter structures using a ladder. The basic principles of ladder usage, water application, and ventilation will be reviewed. The class will practice correct ladder usage, advancing hose, fire attacks, and communications between working teams with the incident commander. Students will put their knowledge to use in the Fire Service Training Bureau’s two-story Mobile Fire Training Trailer. The trailer will simulate conditions encountered in actual interior structure fires. Some of the evolutions the student may experience include second story entrance into a structure, fire attacks on either level, ventilation, and communication skills. Prerequisites for this course are: Basic knowledge and experience in the areas of: safety; fire behavior; ladders; personal protective equipment (PPE); ventilation; and fire hose, appliances, and fire streams.

Juvenile Firesetter Intervention Awareness
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Jim Plunket, Lombard Fire Department; Illinois
Objective: This program is designed for the firefighter just getting into the Juvenile Fire Setting field. Some of the areas that are covered in this program are: They height, width and depth of the Juvenile Firesetting problem; interviewing methods and techniques for various age groups; evaluation of the firesetter and how to develop an education action plan for the firesetter and their family.

Saturday (9:00 am - 4:00 pm) Section #: 092872 Cost: $42

Meth Lab Awareness for First Responders
EMS Credit: Approved for 6.0 OE EMS Credit
For: All Fire, EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Dennis Correll, Medford, Minnesota
Objective: To be the first on a fire scene, could mean that you are the first one exposed to the hazardous chemicals of a methamphetamine lab. Did you protect yourself? Did you tell everyone else about the possibility? If you don’t inform them, are you liable? In this course we will look at meth labs and what makes them, how the chemicals are used, and what to look for. Then we will look at some different types of devices that have been used to hurt and even kill drug counter parts in an effort to control the local drug market. We do this in an attempt to make you safer, should you ever encounter one of these situations.

Mobile Flashover Training Unit
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing and SCBA will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Customized Firefighter Training Staff
Objective: The Flashover Unit allows Firefighters the opportunity to see, look for and learn to recognize the pre-flashover conditions. The Firefighter will see and experience real fire that will follow the realworld time temperature curve, not some computerized controlled propane simulation. It is extremely important that Firefighters not only appreciate the limits of their protective gear but to experience the fully developed fire, dense smoke, high heat, and rollover-the warning signs of flashover, all of which are present in the unit. Must be trained to the Fire Fighter 1.

Positive Pressure Attack
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Kriss Garcia and Reinhard Kauffmann, Battalion Chiefs; Salt Lake City, Fire Department, Utah
Objective: Positive Pressure was first used in the fire service to ventilate a structure after the fire was knocked down. Kriss and Reinhard have taken positive pressure a step further to achieve effective ventilation in coordination with aggressive fire attack, called positive pressure attack (PPA). Properly used PPA allows firefighters great control over the interior environment of a fire building, and starts at the earliest stages of the operation when ventilation can provide the greatest benefit for victims, firefighters, and the structure. With a small investment in equipment and a commitment to training, any fire department
can implement PPA at the company level.

Saturday (9:00 am - 4:00 pm) Section #: 092879 Cost: $42
Sunday (8:30 am - 3:30 pm) Section #: 092907 Cost: $42

Rapid Intervention Teams
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing and SCBA will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Tracy Haus and Rodney Hawkins, Runnells Fire Department
Objective: An intensive hands-on session by firefighters for firefighters. The scenarios and skills are based on actual incidents. The emphasis throughout the class is on simplicity, speed and success. Participants learn the basic tools, skills, mindset and teamwork needed to survive and recover downed comrades. Armed with these basic abilities, firefighters can adapt them to overcome many fireground obstacles and keep themselves and each other alive.

Saturday (9:00 am - 4:00 pm) Section #: 092881 Cost: $35

Rural Water Pump Operations
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Cliff McFarland, Fire Service Training Bureau, Field Staff
Objective: Learn how to set up water supply relays. The need for a water supply in the rural areas of districts will be covered as well as the system delivery, what resources are available, drop tank work, size of lines needed, what devices are available, and the incident command system and how it works with rural water supply. Rural Water Operrations can be used when the town water supply is not operational due to storms, terrorists, or other problem. This course includes both classroom work and hands-on training.

Saturday (9:00 am - 4:00 pm) Section #: 092883 Cost: $35

Scene Operations Support (S.O.S.) Where Here, What Do You Need?
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant PPE (if available), Blood-Pressure Cuff and Stethoscope.
For: All Fire EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
EMS Credit: Approved for EMS CreditApproved for EMS CreditApproved for EMS Credit Instructor(s): Tracy Tope, EMT-B, Captain EMS Division, Nevada Fire & EMS; Missy Wild, LPN, EMT-B, Firefighter, Nevada Fire & EMS; David Donnelley, FF2, Instructor, Lt. Fire Division, Nevada Fire & EMS
Objective: Whether it be a structure fire, grass fire, extrication, or any other call that requires extended on scene time, you need; Scene Operations Support. These people do everything but extinguish, ventilate, extricate, and search. This course will focus on what your EMS Responders or Firefighters can do to help make the scene a safer place to work. By providing better lighting, traffic control, Medical monitoring, Emergency Personnel rehabilitation, and help maintain a good accountability system. Team work is the focus. This is a good course for Fire Officers, EMS personnel, and that firefighter that doesn't see
the need for, “Rehab”, Staging, and Medical Monitoring

Saturday (9:00 am - 4:00 pm) Section #: 092885 Cost: $42
Sunday (8:30 am - 3:30 pm) Section #: 092910 Cost: $42

Search and Rescue: Tactics
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing and SCBA will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Dubuque County Firefighter’s Association Staff
Objective: After completing this course the student will be able to safely use, clean, recharge, inspect and store a SCBA. The student will be able to list physical, mental, and medical factors that effect the firefighter’s ability to use the SCBA, describe the equipment and air supply limitations. The student will also correctly don and use the SCBA and refill the SCBA from a Cascade System. In addition the student will learn Search and Rescue techniques. Too many firefighter’s lives are lost when searching for civilians and/or other firefighters. The participant should have a better understanding of how to complete the search, perform a successful rescue, and return safely.

School Bus Extrication
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing and safety glasses, will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
For: All Fire, EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
EMS Credit: Approved for 6.0 OE EMS Credit
Instructor(s): Fire Service Bureau Field Instructors and PRI Instructors
Objective: Do you think of young children in large yellow vehicles when you hear the word “school bus?” Think Again. This course will take a look at school buses today the various rescue methods to include advanced extrication techniques and patient care challenges. Upon completion the student will be able to: identify early in the incident the resources involved due to multi-casualties; demonstrate proper patient packaging and removal techniques; recognize the need for S.T.A.R.T. Triage System and understand the special medical needs associated with bus accidents.

Surface Water Rescue
Required Equipment: Personal Flotation Device (PFD). In addition, if you have any of the following equipment, please bring: water Rescue Helmet, Water Boots, Ice or Dry Suits.
EMS Credit: Approved for 6.0 OE EMS Credit
For: All Fire, EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s):Fire Service Bureau Field Instructors and PRI Instructors
Objective: This course is designed for agencies that need a formalized water rescue team due to their responses at lakes, ponds, non-flowing and flowing water ways. Subjects covered include rescuer safety; self rescue techniques, pre-planning, and size-up of water hazards to include ice rescue. Hands-on evolutions will take place on Saturday. The content will meet NFPA 1006 and NFPA 1670 requirements.

Tractor Rollover
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing and safety glasses, will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
For: All Fire, EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
EMS Credit: Approved for 6.0 FE EMS Credit
Instructor(s): Dan Neenen, Paramedic, NECAS (National Education Center for Agricultural Safety)
Objective: The tractor rollover extrication training program will give the student an indepth look at how tractors roll over and new safety devices that help stabilize a tractor including Roll-Over Protection Systems (ROPS). The hands on portion of the program will deal with trauma, patient care, cribbing, and extrication tools. Students will perform several evolutions in patient extrication. Students will gain knowledge on how to safely conduct a tractor rollover incident.

Training! Let’s Get It Done!
Required Material: Students need to bring a detailed list of equipment from their Fire Department
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Scott Hagenson, Lake Mills Fire Department; Past-President Iowa Firemen's Association
Objective: In this class you will discuss what it takes to make training in today’s fire department for education and compliant for the 2010 training standard. Classroom discussion will center around ideas, suggestions and thoughts from the instructors and students in the class. Students will leave class with ideas and plans for their fire department.

Saturday (9:00 am - 4:00 pm) Section #: 092890 Cost: $42
Sunday (8:30 am - 3:30 pm) Section #: 092915 Cost: $42

Basic Firefighting
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing and SCBA will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Randy Zbanek, Ely Fire Department; John Zlabek, Hiawatha & West Bertram Fire Department; Shawn Fluharty, Marion Fire Department; Roger Berry, Indianola Fire Department
Objective: This course covers the necessary skills for basic firefighting operations. The course includes a blend of lecture with the majority of class time focused on practical skills and competency. Topics include: firefighter safety, use and care of SCBA, basic search and rescue techniques, use of fire extinguishers, fire behavior and fire attack with water fire streams. This class is NOT a substitute for the Firefighter 1 class.

High Angle Rope Rescue
Required Equipment: Students in this class must bring a helmet (rescue helmet preferred). Students must wear long pants.
EMS Credit: Approved for EMS Credit
For: All Fire, EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Jim Whitaker, Burlington Fire Department; Aaron Whitaker, Davenport Fire Department; Ray Wilson, Mediapolis Fire Department
Objective: This course covers the basics of high angle rope rescue including knots, rigging, belaying, rapelling, raising and lowering systems, mechanical advantage, litter rigging, patient packaging and rescue procedures. The course will consist of 4 hours classroom and 8 hours hands on time working at 50 feet or higher.

Saturday (9:00 am - 4:00 pm) Section #: 092873 Cost: $80
Sunday (8:30 am - 3:30 pm)

Mobile Home Fire Response
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing and SCBA will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
For: All Fire and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Scott Donohoe, Cedar Rapids Fire Department and Staff
Objective: Mobile homes can be found in nearly every community in Iowa. This two-day course will focus on pre-standard mobile homes and will provide the participant with knowledge of the construction techniques and materials used in these structures, and some of the unique hazards associated with them. Also discussed will be strategies and tactics in fighting mobile home fires. Numerous hands-on activities will emphasize basic search skills, fire attack methods, rapid entry techniques, and coordinated response.

Saturday (9:00 am - 4:00 pm) Section #: 092878 Cost: $80
Sunday (8:30 am - 3:30 pm)

Railcar Technician Training
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing and SCBA, will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
For: All Fire, EMS and Rescue Service Personnel already certified as a Hazardous Materials Technician
EMS Credit: Approved for 12.0 OE EMS Credit
Instructor(s): Mike Cheney, Cedar Rapids Fire Department
Objective: Is your fire department prepared for a railcar incident? This hands-on course using railcars will cover the differences between high and low pressure cars. Identifying products carried in the different types of cars. Students will be applying the Midland Kit and airbags to stop leaking cars. Pre-Requisite: Must be trained to Hazardous Materials Technician level.

Urban Search and Rescue - The Fundamentals of Heavy Lifting, Moving and Cribbing
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing, will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
For: All Fire, EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
EMS Credit: Approved for 12.0 OE EMS Credit
Instructor(s): Members of IA-TF1 Urban Search and Rescue - Cedar Rapids, Division
Objective: Your fire department was just dispatched to a concrete storm culvert that fell off of a semi and landed on top of a vehicle trapping occupants inside. Does your fire department have resources and knowledge to deal with situations like the one just described? If you can’t answer this question, you’re not alone. Many fire departments don’t have the knowledge of lifting and moving heavy objects. In this class you will learn how to lift and move object’s weighing in the thousands of pounds. You will also learn proper cribbing techniques, how to effectively use tools as levers holding and moving hundreds even thousands of pounds. The student will work with air bags, cribbing; pry bars, mechanical advantage system (MA), rollers, shims, concrete, and steel. In this class, students will be using Urban Search and Rescue techniques of heavy lifting &
moving, heavy cribbing, and leveraging principles.

Vehicle Firefighting
Required Equipment: Full NFPA compliant protective clothing and SCBA, will be required for all students involved in the hands-on portion of this class.
For: All Fire EMS and Rescue Service Personnel
Instructor(s): Randy Thompson, Grundy Center Fire Department; Nathan Kappel, Ackley fire Department, Jerry Dolf, Evandsale Fire Department; Marion Lehman, Redfield Fire Department
Objective: This course will demonstrate incident comman, fire suppression, gaining access, patient care, and arson tactics. We will also discuss hybrid vehicles, dangers and hazards and airbags. Upon completion of this course emergency personnel will be able to safely set up and manage a vehicle fire incident.

Saturday (9:00 am - 4:00 pm) Section #: 092888 Cost: $80
Sunday (8:30 am - 3:30 pm)