Taking It to the Streets™
Strategic & Tactical
Training for Survival
The Command Institute at EMAC International
is proud to offer the timely and critically
acclaimed Taking It to the Streets™ Series
of specialized courses addressing
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fundamental
and emerging strategic and tactical operational,
risk reduction, and survival skills affecting structural
combat fire engagement
for various occupancies in the built environment.
These courses elevate the foundation of knowledge
on strategic and tactical fire suppression and integrate
inherent building construction hazards awareness
with “street smart” understandings built
upon years of street level fire responses and experiences
within the designated occupancy types. The series
integrates traditional fire suppression operations
with cutting edge perspectives and insights into
the emerging philosophies of tactics, command safety,
risk reduction, and visionary structural fire suppression.
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Taking It to the Streets™ reinforces
the need for a return to basic
training in day-to-day deployment
demands of the response company
with a focus on the lessons learned
from case studies, LODD’s
and investigative reports for tactical
survival. These essential courses
designed for firefighters and company
officers bridge the gap between
basic tactical deployment, building
construction awareness, and the
need to expand street level company
proficiencies.
Balancing
an awareness of inherent occupancy hazards,
these courses explore contemporary factors
for firefighter survivability during task
assignments. The courses integrate
command safety with effective risk
assessment to ensure
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that during structural combat fire engagement, personnel
and company safety is paramount and that the lessons
learned from historical fire events are not repeated.
Taking
It To the Streets™ examines the elements
of building construction as they relate
to fire involvement and fire dynamics. The courses
use case studies to demonstrate intrinsic
building performance and structural stability factors,
and universal strategic and tactical protocols that
form the constants in structural combat fire engagement.
Participants will learn how it all fits together in
the interaction of fire suppression efforts and support
operations by firefighters, company and command officers
orchestrated under the prevailing theories of risk
reduction, strategic command, measured tactical deployments
and task assignments.
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These vital training courses prepare participants
for the increasing challenges and demands of future
structural
combat fire assignments. The program will assist
those who have minimum experience under actual
combat fire
suppression incidents. They will have the opportunity
to expand their skill development in enhanced recognition-primed
decision-making, structural anatomy knowledge of
buildings and tactical deployment options.
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The Taking It to the Streets™ Series
is far more than just a tactical series.
These programs return the focus to street
level skills developed over years of actual
fire responses and operations. They will
provide refreshing insights for the current
and upcoming generation of firefighters,
company officers and incident commanders.
Above all, the courses will provide awareness
and insights required for firefighter survivability
that will help reduce and ultimately eliminate
contributing factors for line-of-duty deaths
and fireground injuries.
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The Taking It to the Streets™ Series courses can be
adapted to address pertinent local and regional issues for
participants. These can range from anything affecting agency
specific tactical operations, protocols and standard operating
procedures, deployment and response factors, command and
safety considerations, specific occupancies, building types
or target hazards within your jurisdiction or response area.
Program length can vary and can be developed based upon client
needs and specifications. These programs can be offered as
short version presentations and presented in conjunction
with REACT™ tabletop command simulator boards to bridge
classroom concepts with hands-on simulation training opportunities
for skill development.
TS
100 - Taking It to the Streets™:
Strategic Risk Management, Safety, and Operational
Concerns for the Command Officer
Strategic Command Officer decision-making during structural fire operations demands
a focused and continuing assessment of structural integrity, fire behavior and
construction performance to ensure safety and integrity of tactical company missions
within the incident action plan. Suppression, ventilation, rescue and support
task assignments require tactical executions that take into consideration specific
inherent risks associated with various construction and occupancy types.
TS 101 - Taking
It to the Streets™:
Tactical Risk Management, Safety, and Operational Concerns for the Company
Officer
Tactical Company Officer decision-making during structural fire operations
demands a focused and continuing assessment of structural integrity, fire behavior
and construction performance to ensure safety and integrity of tactical company
missions within the incident action plan. Suppression, ventilation, rescue
and support task assignments require tactical executions that take into consideration
specific inherent risks associated with various construction and occupancy
types.
TS 102 - Taking
It to the Streets™:
Tactical Assignments, Safety, and Survival for the Firefighter
A broad-based program that explores and defines the correlation of the characteristic
tactical assignments assigned during combat structural fire operations and
the impacts they may have on company level and firefighter level safety and
survivability. Exploring recent case studies and events, this program identifies
safety and survival skills and techniques when you’re in the street ready
to do fire combat.
TS 103 - Taking
It to the Streets™:
Combat Structural Engagement - in New Residential Occupancies
The focus on the newest generation of residential occupancy fires and construction,
with street level perspectives on materials, construction and building configurations
that have significantly changed the way engine, truck and rescue companies
respond, deploy and engage within these large volume, expansive and challenging
fires.
TS 104 - Taking
it to the Street™:
Combat Structural Engagement - in Balloon Frame Residential Fires
Street tactics for quick and effective decision-making for fire deployment
to balloon frame structures. Structures can include single or multiple occupancy
residential dwellings, the 2-1/2 story wood frame, Victorian, Queen-Anne, flats,
Deckers or Triples, row-frames or row-houses. This program provides insights
for effective tactical engagement with the emphasis on company and personnel
safety.
TS 105 - Taking
It to the Streets™:
Combat Structural Engagement - Garden Apartment Fires
Tactical decision-making, multiple company coordination and understanding inherent
fire travel and building characteristics that influence tactical assignments,
resources and time pressures, are the lessons learned and shared on effective
techniques for combat fires in Garden Apartment occupancies. The program emphasizes
multiple company resource needs and their effective deployment and assignments,
action planning and safety.
TS 106 - Taking
It to the Streets™:
Combat Structural Engagement - Strip Mall Fires
Tactical decision-making, multiple company coordination and understanding inherent
fire travel and building characteristics that influence tactical assignments,
resources and time pressures, are the lessons learned and shared on effective
techniques for combat fires in Strip Mall occupancies.
TS 107 - Taking
It to the Streets™:
Combat Structural Engagement - Taxpayer Fires
Tactical decision-making, multiple company coordination and understanding inherent
fire travel and building characteristics that influence tactical assignments,
resources and time pressures, are the lessons learned and shared on effective
techniques for combat fires in Taxpayer occupancies.
TS 108 - Taking
It to the Streets™:
Combat Structural Engagement - Warehouse Fires
Tactical decision-making, multiple company coordination and understanding inherent
fire travel and building characteristics that influence tactical assignments,
resources and time pressures, are the lessons learned and shared on effective
techniques for combat fires in Warehouse occupancies. Special hazards, large
area operations, building performance and support protective systems impacts
will be presented.
TS 109 - Taking
It to the Streets™:
Combat Structural Engagement - “Big Box” Fire Operations
The Big-Box Commercial center fires. There are new lessons to be learned from
these occupancies which will require insights and awareness of the unique strategic
and tactical issues facing company response and operations. These are not your
everyday-routine fire response; they require special attention, insights, protocols
and company level skills to increase surviving the tactical assignment.
TS 110 - Taking
It to the Streets™:
Combat Structural Engagement - Low and Highrise Fires
Tactical decision-making, multiple company coordination and understanding inherent
fire travel and building characteristics that influence tactical assignments,
resources and time pressures, are the lessons learned and shared on effective
techniques for combat fires in low and high-rise occupancies.
TS 111 - Taking
It to the Streets™:
Combat Structural Engagement - Horizontal “Highrise” Offices
Tactical decision-making, multiple company coordination and understanding inherent
fire travel and building characteristics that influence tactical assignments,
resources and time pressures, are the lessons learned and shared on effective
techniques for combat fires in the newest and emerging large-scale business
and corporate office park occupancies. These occupancies expand out horizontally
and may be only 3 or 4 stories in height versus the high-rise definition, but
have similar challenges and tactical impacts.
TS 112 - Taking
It to the Streets™:
Combat Structural Engagement - Truck Company Roof Operations
Tactical Roof assignments are crucial elements to support combat structural
fires. However, the considerations and risks associated with these tactical
assignments and the benefits versus risk assessment may not always balance.
Understanding the factors for effective and safe truck company roof operations,
structural roof risk assessment and monitoring, and the tactical options available
provide useful insights into this tactical street assignment.
TS 113 - Taking
It to the Streets™:
Combat Structural Engagement - Search and Rescue Operations
Search and Rescue assignments are high-risk, mission critical tactical directives
to support combat structural fires. However, the considerations and potential
risks to firefighters associated with these tactical assignments, and the benefits
versus risk gains may not always balance. Firefighters must understand the
survival factors for effective and safe search and rescue operations; occupancy
risks; monitoring, advancement and progress of fire involvement; and structural
stability. All of these factors will pose challenges and require a solid understanding
of fire suppression, construction, occupancy profiles and tactical options.
Operating experience, case studies and proven street level insights and experience
can make the difference in this tactical street assignment.
To schedule or inquire
about a course, please contact us.
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