Questions, Answers & General Information

You ask it, We'll do our best to answer it! If you have information you would like to share with your brothers and sisters in the fire service please email it to ifia@insightbb.com.  In the subject line please put "WEB Q&A".

2008 Annual Meeting PowerPoints

• Gerald George: Technical Rescue

• John Buckman:  State Firefighter Training Presentation

• My name is Carey Slauter, Operations Chief with the White River Fire Department.  I am conducting research in the area of career employee retention in the fire service.  I am looking for examples of retention programs or policies that your fire organization has put in place and if they have been successful.  You can send responses to cslauter@wrtfd.org.  Thank you for your time and assistance.  posted 12/20/2007

• mms://video.wjla.com/wciv/091307_full_firefighters.wmv

  This above link is raw, unedited video of some of the CFD firefighters who were on the scene, and operating at the Sofa Store fire which killed 9 CFD Firefighters on June 18th of this year. Some of you may have already viewed this-it lasts about 45 minutes. This is a unique chance to understand what the CFD Firefighters experienced and how they felt, and feel. This provides their perspective, perception, opinion, views and first hand report on what happened... from two members who were there.

• Click Reference list (for references to the current test banks) 

• Reference List for Fire Strategy & Tactics:  NFA STICO Module 1-5, NFA MCTO Module 1-5 & NFA MOD Module 1-5

• Know who your legislatives are!   http://www.in.gov/legislative/legislators/

• Technical Rescue Certification Process (presentation given at the IFIA Annual Meeting) 

• Air Management (presentation given by Brian Kazmierzak, IFIA Member)

• Resource Directory

Indiana Fire Chiefs Seminar PowerPoint Presentations & Information

• Final Fire Chiefs Leadership Seminar PowerPoint

• Joe Wainscott DHS Progress PowerPoint  

• Mutual Aid (word document)

• Developing & Implementing SOG's/SOG's PowerPoint (using VFIS template) Chad Abel, IFIA President

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