

Fire Officer Development
• Leadership, supervisory and managerial skills
• Emergency Incident Management
• Establishing Command and creating effective Incident Action Plans based on sound strategic and tactical considerations, and utilizing the ICS and basic incident management principles
• Incident simulation exercises using table top and real site scenario-based exercises to develop the Company Officer’s Incident Management Skills
• Effective Personnel Accountability
• Effective Media Relations at the Emergency Ground
Emergency Incident Management
Establishing Command and creating effective Incident Action Plans based on sound strategic and tactical considerations, and utilizing the ICS and basic incident management principles.
Effective Personnel Accountability.
Incident Command Systems
• Theory and application of all levels of the ICS, from basic level 1 ICS for day to day incidents to comprehensive ICS for major incidents involving multi-agency/multi-jurisdictional responses requiring detailed command post processes
• Variations of the ICS for high-rise operations
Fire behaviour and reading smoke
Strategies and Tactics
• Based on incident problems or objectives, identify an effective strategic approach and appropriate tactics to resolve the situation
• Developing better incident action plans through a working knowledge of fire behaviour and reading smoke
• Up to date tactics in positive pressure ventilation (and pressurization), fire confinement and attack, primary and secondary search and rescue, exposure protection and salvage and overhaul
• High-rise operations
Incident Safety Officer
• Providing the Company Officer with the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to function effectively as the Incident Safety Officer at Fire Department operations
• Using scenario-based exercises to develop the decision-making skills, and understanding the correct actions for an ISO to take while functioning at an incident
Incident simulation exercises
Recruit training
• Developing and honing all the necessary skills for a new recruit firefighter to meet and exceed firefighter Level 1 and 2 standard
Fire Prevention
• Investigations
• Inspections
• Public education