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NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (NIMS) CLASS The IS-700 Course which is an introduction to (NIMS) National Incident Management System has been given to all of the stations in the county. This course along with IS-100 must be taken by all firefighters weather at county training or on line at the EMI website or at NFAonline. |
We all respond to vehicle accident's where the air bag's have not deployed. This can be a very dangerous situation when we have to work inside the vehicle for any reason. You should cut the battery cables and make sure nothing has punctured the battery then wait a short time for the air bag module to discharge before entering the vehicle. This is a short list of the times for the module to discharge. Will update this list when possible.
Just to get things started, we are all volunteer's and we want to do the best that we can and that means training, although we do not often have the time. While anyone can attend the courses taught at the National Fire Academy at no cost except for meal's, it is impossible for most, if not all of us to go as we have our regular job's and family to take care of. While the main intent of this page is going to be informing you of our county training schedule's, it is also going to list some good training resources on the internet. The first will be www.training.fema.gov their you will find link's to FEMA's Emergency Management Institute, The National Fire Academy's Virtual Campus, and links to NFIRS training. I will add other links to other sites also, but this is a start. You can access about 75 different courses at this site and you will receive a certificate from FEMA or the National Fire Academy on all of these courses. If you enroll in any of the courses on the Virtual Campus use your social security number for your user ID, this will make it a lot easer to get your certificate but you will have to send a enrollment form by mail, which you can download from their site and I will make it available for download from this site latter.
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Just received this by email. It seems that at least one of the courses on the EMI training page is soon going to be required by all First Responders. You can read the email here. This is a pretty simple course and you will receive a Certificate from the Emergency Management Institute. Click here to view mine. Asst. Chief Terry Hutto and I have taken most of the courses on this site and the certificate's make nice wallpaper.
Monday, April 11, 2005
This is a link to FEMA's website
on the NIMS that explains their plans to make this a requirement for all emergency
responders and state's.
This is the self study course for IS-700.
It seems that since this is going to be required the website is being flooded, so you can
download it from this site and when you get ready to take the test you can take it on the
website. You can click the link above and read this in your browser or right click it and
click save target as to save it to your computer. For those of you who do not have
internet access let me know and I will print the test sheet for you to take and enter your
answers on the website for you. This is the final exam
for IS 700. Print this out and fill in the answer's before you go on line to take the
test. The web site only provides an answer sheet for you to fill in, not the questions.
This course is also on the National Fire Academy's Virtual
Campus web site and it does provide all course material's and the complete test with
questions, but you will have to send in enrollment Form
75a and it will take longer to get your certificate.