We will be adding Continuing Education Credits to our training program this year starting January 8, 2019.
This year in 2019 we would like to challenge you to continue to evaluate your commitment to training. We constantly strive to present the most current and needed training topics. We have in the past and will continue into the future to bring top quality training from the outside sectors to help improve our training and knowledge base. We have and will continue to train with our mutual aid departments for safer, higher level training which makes us all better prepared for future incidents.
Our firefighter's must continue to open their minds to new and innovative ideas regarding response operations. We will continue to be challenged by changes in the tasks that affect our job i.e. building construction, hazardous materials, hybrid vehicles, threatening medical response concerns and other new missions which have the potential to endanger the untrained as well as the highly trained.
Firefighter deaths across the Country continue at an unacceptable level and training has the potential to dramatically increase our chances for surviving that next incident. There are many excuses for shortcutting training session. Time is always a factor and incidents always seem to interrupt the best made plans. We understand the time training takes away from family and your life outside the department but a non-trained firefighter is a disaster waiting to happen. Whatever the reason for reducing training efforts we should all agree that training is the single most important piece of the life safety puzzle.
Included in most fire department mission statements is the provision of protecting the life safety of the citizens it serves. Accomplishing that noble goal takes team work and more importantly the collective individual efforts of the entire team. The past has proven that when one member of the team fails the entire team suffers along with the service that team provides to the community. In other words as is often said a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Don't let your training commitment or rather lack of commitment make you the weakest link. The rest of our department is counting on you to hold up your section of the chain.
Great job in 2018, Thank You
A word on training 2019
When one takes on the responsibility of leading a fire department, they take on the safety and welfare of each individual member of the department as well as the trust of that member's family and friends.
I believe a responsible department puts safety and welfare of member's first, I believe this is accomplished with providing the best and safest equipment and materials as possible. This includes providing training opportunities that will ensure that each and every member can accomplish their goals and objectives while maintaining their personal safety as well as the safety of their fellow member's.
Team work is the concept that most succussful organizations use and maintain. You must work together as a team to be successful and this starts with training. If you are not trained to the best of your ability as well as the department's ability then you can not be successful individually or as a team (department).
