Class List

Two Weekend Classes
Class No. Class Name
001 WV Firefighter Level I Jr.
Instructor: Lance Carney & James Hill
This basic Delmar Firefighter I training program meets the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1001 standard for firefighter training. Topics include fire department organization, protective clothing, fire behavior, SCBA, rescue, forcible entry, ropes, fire department apparatus, ladders, fire streams, hoses, salvage, overhaul, fire alarm communications, safety, and portable fire extinguishers.
Equipment Required: Full Turnout Gear and SCBA w/ Spare Bottle
Price: $100.00
Textbook: $65.00 | Workbook: $40.00
002 WV Firefighter Level II Jr.
Instructor: Scott Chinn
This Delmar Firefighter II course is the second level training of the WVU firefighter-training program and meets the NFPA 1001 standard for firefighter training. Topics include arson detection, breathing apparatus, fire ground operations, flammable and combustible liquid fires, hydraulics, water movement, ventilation, preplanning, and rescue.
Prerequisites: Firefighter I (Recommended)
Equipment Required: Full Turnout Gear and SCBA w/ Spare Bottle
Price: $100.00
Textbook: $65.00 | Workbook: $40.00
003 Fire Officer I / II Jr.
Instructor: John Smoot
This is a combination class where you will obtain both Fire Offi-cer I and Fire Officer II certifications. The Fire Officer I & II pro-gram provides insight into the role of the officer as defined by the 2003 Edition of NFPA 1021, the Standard for Fire Officer Pro-fessional Qualifications.

THIS CLASS WILL BEGIN ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2010. YOU WILL BE CONTACTED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BEFORE THE CLASS BEGINS.

Prerequisites: Firefighter 1
Price: $150.00
Textbook: $45.00 | Workbook: $30.00
004 Aerial Apparatus Driver and Operator
Instructor: Matt Jackson & Gary Scott
This course is designed to educate the driver/operators responsible for operating fire apparatus equipped with aerial devices. These include aerial ladders, aerial ladder platforms, articulating elevating platforms, telescoping elevating platforms, and water towers. It includes the information necessary to meet the job performance requirements of NFPA 1002, Standard for Fire Apparatus Driver/Operator Professional Qualifications, Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 5.
Equipment Required: Full Turnout Gear and SCBA w/ Spare Bottle
Price: $100.00
Textbook: $40.00
005 First Responder
Instructor: Wayne Harmon
This course is to provide the student with the basic life support skills and knowledge to assess, stabilize, and monitor the pre-hospital patient. This course prepares the student to take the National Registry First Responder Exam and if successfully com-pleted, obtain a First Responder Certification with a two-year renewal option. Fee’s for Testing, Background Check, etc. are not included and will need to be paid when class begins.
Equipment Required: Current CPR Certification
Price: $100.00
Textbook: $65.00
006 NIMS ICS Train-the-Trainer (L-449)
Instructor: Larry Allen
This course prepares participants to deliver EMI's ICS curricula. While ICS 100 and 200 courses are addressed, the major em-phasis is on ICS 300 and 400. This program will also allow cur-rently certified ICS instructors to teach the combined model ICS curriculum developed by FEMA, USDA, NWCG and NFA.
Equipment Required: ICS-100, ICS-200, ICS-300, ICS-400, IS-700, IS-800
Price: $100.00

First Weekend - Friday Evening
Class No. Class Name
100 Hazardous Materials Awareness Jr.
Instructor: Dan Taaffe
Designed for first responders to identify Hazardous Materials and how to use the Emergency Response Guidelines and basic knowledge of transportation vehicles when they see them.
Price: $15.00
101 NIMS ICS-200 Jr.
Instructor: Roy McCallister
ICS-200 is designed to enable personnel to operate efficiently during an incident or event within the Incident Command System (ICS).
Price: $15.00

First Weekend - Saturday Only
Class No. Class Name
110 Basement & Attic Fires Jr.
Instructor: Benny Filiaggi
The course will depict and explain the most common causes of injuries and deaths firefighters encounter while operating at basement and attic fires. Topics will include the importance of the three phases of size-up. 1- Command Sequence, 2-Logical Thought Process for Decision Making, 3-Action Planning and Outcome of Incident Priorities Concerning Size-up, etc.
Price: $30.00
111 First Aid & CPR Course Jr.
Instructor: Kim Morgan-Loudin
This first aid and CPR course is designed for individuals who work in health care. Students learn basic cardiovascular life-support skills for the adult, infant, and child cardiac arrest victim. Students are instructed in the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED), and the use of pocket masks and bag valve masks. Participants receive a two-year certification card.
Price: $30.00
112 Ham Radio Crash Course Jr.
Instructor: Joe Richards
This session is an intense "cram style" course and license testing activity that accelerates ob-taining the Technician Class Amateur Radio License. By rapid presentation, followed by immedi-ate testing, your chances of passing the examination are improved without the need to study for many weeks. certified by the American Radio Relay League under authorization of the FCC.
Price: $30.00
113 Volunteer Recruiting & Grant Writing Workshop Jr.
Instructor: Jeff Cash
Have you experienced your membership roster going up and down over the past several years? Do you need quality individuals for your department? Why are you losing people? Where do we locate new members? Why are our members leaving?

This program will explore these questions and recruitment/ retention concerns facing many volunteer fire and rescue organizations. Areas to investigate will include: where to locate vol-unteers, strategies for keeping your people on board, explore what motivates volunteers to stay in your organization, how generational dimensions affect your organization, and the critical role that leadership plays in recruitment and retention.

The workshop will also include an overview of the Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency Assistance to Firefighter Grant Programs. It will contain tips to improve your grant narrative.
Price: $FREE

First Weekend - Sunday Only
Class No. Class Name
114 Fire & Rescue Organizational Leadership Jr.
Instructor: Jeff Cash
Quality leadership is critical to any organization, especially in the Emergency Services arena. Without quality leadership, an organization will simply struggle to stay afloat. During this ses-sion, we will explore the art of leadership. The session will include looking at the following areas of leadership: managerial skills and traits, potential derailment scenarios, successful leader-ship traits, change strategies, teamwork and motivation, generational concerns, leadership styles/types, and the role politics plays. We will also discuss the importance of taking care of yourself and your support system.
Price: $30.00
115 First Five Minutes Jr.
Instructor: Benny Filiaggi
This program is a strategy and tactics course that will answer the question ?What do I do when I get to a fire?? Topics will include hose line placement, engine company and ladder company operations, and standard operating procedures with the emphasis on applying these topics to fire situations with a minimum of manpower and equipment.
Price: $30.00
116 MAss Casualty Incidents Jr.
Instructor: Bill Arthur
This course includes Module I and Module II of the West Virginia Mass Casualty Incidents Course. It is required for certification and re-certification for First Responders, EMT’s and Paramedics.
Price: $30.00

First Weekend
Class No. Class Name
120 Aggressive Search Tactics
Instructor: Paul Niedbalski & Darin Virag
This course will address the specific challenges involved with searching single family dwellings while providing the students with a no-nonsense ?tricks of the trade? approach. The second half of day one and all of day two will include 10 practical skill stations focusing on Forcible Entry, SCBA Confidence, Advanced Search Techniques, Laddering, and Victim Removal Procedures.
Equipment Required: Full PPE, SCBA & Spare Bottle
Price: $65.00
121 Arson Detection for First Responders (Arson I) Jr.
Instructor: Paul Gill
This National Fire Academy (NFA) course introduces beginning-level fire cause and determina-tion, basic scene investigation, evidence collection, and elements required to prove arson. This class is a requirement for Fire Officer I certification.
Price: $65.00
122 ATV Search Tactics
Instructor: Tim Arthur
A two day course that deals specifically with search using ATVs. Topics include search re-sources, search operations, search tactics, and land navigation. Each student will need an ATV to ride, and DOT approved helmet and other safety gear.
Equipment Required: ATV & DOT Approved Helmet
Price: $65.00
123 Farm Rescue & Extrication Jr.
Instructor: Steve Cavender
This course will provide firefighters and emergency medical personnel with knowledge about farm accidents, farm hazards, and general rescue / extrication procedures when responding to and operating at an agricultural emergency. Classroom, lecture, and field exercises cover trac-tor, power takeoff and farm implement stabilization, and rescue and extrication procedures.
Equipment Required: Full PPE & Eye Protection
Price: $65.00
124 Hazardous Materials Operations Jr.
Instructor: Dan Taaffe
This course provides students with an understanding of ways to confine, contain, or divert a hazardous materials release using defensive methods, such as damming, diking, and diverting. The student will have the opportunity for hands-on experience in building different types of con-tainment systems and setting up decontamination areas.
Price: $65.00
125 Intermodal Container Specialist
Instructor: Barry Lindley
This class is designed for the Responder who needs the increased knowledge in responding to Intermodal emergencies. This class covers Intermodal anatomy and design, damage assess-ment, repair, and transloading. This class meets NFPA 472, Chapter 6, Private sector specialist employee A and 29CFR1910.120(q) requirements.
Prerequisites: Hazardous Materials Technician
Price: $65.00
126 Introduction to Technical Rescue Jr.
Instructor: Jason Price
Designed to teach rescuers the basics of the nine technical rescue disciplines their basic op-erations and the hazards associated with each. The student will meet the awareness level in: Confined Space, Dive Rescue, Rope Rescue, Structural Collapse Rescue, Surface Water Rescue, Sub Terrain Rescue, Trench Rescue, Vehicle Extrication, and Wilderness Rescue.
Price: $65.00
127 NIMS ICS-300 Jr.
Instructor: Matt Lyons & Rod Johnson
This course provides training on and resources for personnel who require advanced application of the Incident Command System (ICS). The target audience includes all individuals who may assume a supervisory role in expanding incidents.
Prerequisites: ICS-100 & ICS-200
Price: $65.00
128 Rope Rescue Operations - High Angle
Instructor: Rodney Winter
It is intended to address specific high-angle rope rescue techniques as outlined in the opera-tions level of NFPA 1670 as well as the rope requirements in Rescue Technician of NFPA 1006. The advanced skills include multi-point anchor systems, compound mechanical-advantage sys-tems, ascending and descending fixed-rope systems, highline systems, and victim movement.
Equipment Required: Helmet, Gloves, Boots & Harness if you have one
Price: $65.00
129 Training Operations in Small Departments Jr.
Instructor: Mark Doty
This course is designed to provide students with basic tools and skills to coordinate training in a small fire/EMS organization. A training function in a smaller department typically may include conducting training drills and coordinating training with a nearby larger city or State training function.
Price: $65.00
130 Vehicle Machinery S&R Awareness & Operations Jr.
Instructor: Walt Cavender
This hands-on course will go beyond the basic skills acquired in Basic Auto Extrication concen-trating on problem solving and using advanced tools. NFPA 1670.
Equipment Required: Full PPE & Eye Protection
Price: $65.00
131 Wilderness S&R Awareness & Operations Jr.
Instructor: Kevin Dalton
This course is designed to provide the participants with the core knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform search and rescue operations in a wilderness environment. A heavy focus is placed on the need for the Incident Command System, safety, search team coordination and communi-cation, PPE, search techniques, land/air navigation, and practical skill exercises.
NOTE: THIS COURSE WILL BEGIN FRIDAY EVENING AT 6:00 P.M.
Equipment Required: Outdoor Appropriate PPE
Price: $65.00

Second Weekend - Friday Evening
Class No. Class Name
200 NWS Skywarn Weather Spotter Class Jr.
Instructor: Mark Pellerito
This National Weather Service course gives you the Basis and Advanced courses. The Basic Weather Spotter Class is required to become a certified NWS SKYWARN weather spotter and to take the Advanced Weather Spotter Class. The advanced class provides additional information and training to those interested in learning more than is provided in the basic class.
Price: $15.00
201 Swift Water Rescue Awareness Jr.
Instructor: Robert Fisher
First level of swift-water rescue training. Course topics include organizational roles and objec-tives, safety, the drowning problem, water types, reading water and water flows, rescue fail-ures, logistics, hand signals, risk versus benefit, environmental concerns, flood characteristics, response strategies, PPE, and types of water rescue.
Price: $15.00
202 Thermal Imaging Cameras for the Fire Service Jr.
Instructor: Rodney Winter
This class will give the students an overview of thermal imaging cameras, their use in struc-tural fire fighting and many other uses in the field. You are encouraged to bring your Fire De-partments Thermal Imaging Camera for practice; however, it is not required.
Price: $15.00

Second Weekend - Saturday Only
Class No. Class Name
210 Bomb Technician Assistant
Instructor: Keith Vititoe
The student will become familiar with the basic operations and equipment of an active bomb and/or hazardous device team. First Responder students will gain basic knowledge that will allow them to assist on scene of emergencies involving hazardous devices.
Price: $30.00
211 Emergency Response to Propane Awareness Jr.
Instructor: Dennis Cruise
This class is designed to meet the NFPA 58 Awareness Level for responding to and dealing with propane emergencies including an overview of the physical and chemical properties of propane, flammability and volatility, common transport and storage, as well as common hazards encountered.
Price: $30.00
212 Hazardous Materials Technician Refresher
Instructor: Don Elam
The student will become familiar with the basic operations and equipment of an active bomb and/or hazardous device team. First Responder students will gain basic knowledge that will allow them to assist on scene of emergencies involving hazardous devices.
Price: $30.00

Second Weekend - Sunday Only
Class No. Class Name
213 Clandestine Meth Laboratory Awareness Jr.
Instructor: Mike Oakley
This course is for the benefit of first responders who may encounter a clandestine metham-phetamine lab process. This course will cover the components of the lab process, elements of risk, hazards associated, and understanding the risks associated with the components of the clandestine labs along with protecting yourself and others.
Price: $30.00
214 Emergency Response to Propane Operations
Instructor: Dennis Cruise
This class is designed to give the firefighter/first responder, "hands on" experience in dealing with propane emergencies including live fires. This class will require the student to extinguish propane fire in real type scenarios using skills taught in the awareness and classroom part of the operations course. This class is designed to meet the NFPA 58 Operations - Mission Spe-cific - Level for responding to and dealing with propane emergencies. The nationally recog-nized instructors will challenge students and allow them to experience the potential dangers of fighting propane fires designed around realistic scenarios.
Price: $30.00
215 GPS & Mapping Jr.
Instructor: Maj. Larry Boggs
The class will cover the basics of Land Navigation and review of Topographical maps. Students will learn the basics of the GPS and obtain the knowledge needed to evaluate hand held GPS’s for the uses in there work environment. You will need to bring a GPS Unit for use in class if your agency has one.
Price: $30.00

Second Weekend
Class No. Class Name
220 Arson II - Scene Examination
Instructor: Brad Hartley
This course will show the student how to investigate an actual fire scene, reconstruct the scene, take trace samples, document, diagram and photograph the scene, and determine and prove what started the fire.
Prerequisites: Arson I
Price: $65.00
221 CPR & First Aid Instructor Course
Instructor: Kim Morgan-Loudin
The American Heart Association (AHA) Core Instructor Course will prepare participants to serve as Basic Life Support Instructors for AHA CPR and First Aid Courses. The course will cover topics such as effectively presenting core learning content, facilitating group discus-sions, developing insights into leaner characteristics and needs, and more.
Prerequisites: Current CPR Certification
Textbook: $75.00

Price: $65.00
222 EVOC - Emergency Vehicle Operations Course
Instructor: Tom Miller
This VFIS course is a combination classroom and practical skills training about emergency vehi-cle operations. Safety, legal aspects, inspection, and driver responsibilities are covered. Both written and practical examinations are administered. This class meets WV State Fire Commis-sion and State EMS initial driver training requirements/recommendations.
Equipment Required: Valid Drivers License
Price: $65.00
223 Fundamentals of ATV Rescue
Instructor: Chad Cox
This 2 day course covers basic rope skills, patient packaging, hauling and lowering systems, and patient transport also including several mock patient transport scenarios. Each student will need an ATV and DOT approved helmet for each student.
Prerequisites: Hazardous Materials Awareness
Equipment Required: ATV or UTV & DOT Approved Helmet
Price: $65.00
224 Hazardous Materials Technician
Instructor: Barry Lindley
This 24 hour course is designed for the worker who has the job understanding and skills neces-sary already, but needs to respond to hazardous materials emergencies in an offensive or de-fensive manner. Completion of this course is dependent on both field skills and written examina-tion. This class meets 29 CFR 1910.120(q) Hazardous Materials Technician Level.
Prerequisites: Hazardous Materials Operations
Equipment Required: Full Turnout Gear and SCBA w/ Spare Bottle
Price: $100.00
225 Incident Safety Officer Jr.
Instructor: Murrey Loflin
This course examines the Safety Officer's role at emergency responses. A specific focus on operations within an ICS as a Safety Officer is a main theme. Response to all-hazards types of situations will be emphasized. The course is designed to provide fire department members designated as Safety Officer with the knowledge and skills to perform these duties.
Price: $65.00
226 NIMS ICS-400 Jr.
Instructor: Matt Lyons & Rod Johnson
This course provides training on and resources for personnel who require advanced application of the Incident Command System (ICS). The target audience for this course is senior personnel who are expected to perform in a management capacity in an Area Command or Multi-agency Coordination Entity.
Prerequisites: NIMS ICS-300
Price: $65.00
227 Rope Rescue Technician
Instructor: Rodney Winter
The class covers the understanding of the basic physics involved in constructing rope rescue systems, including system safety factors, critical angles, the causes and effects of force multi-pliers within rope rescue systems, and utilizing a high-line rope system to transport rescuers, equipment, and an occupied litter commensurate with the organization's needs.
Prerequisites: Rope Rescue Operations - High Angle
Price: $65.00
228 Structural Collapse for Engine Companies
Instructor: Joe Coughlin
This course will emphasize operations in light weight building construction collapse emergen-cies by introducing the student to Building Construction, Size-up, Collapse Patterns, Lifting and Moving heavy objects with hand tools, Emergency Building shoring and stabilization, and Breach-ing and Breaking lightweight construction materials to gain access to the trapped and injured.
Equipment Required: Full Turnout Gear with SCBA & Spare Bottle
Price: $65.00
229 Vehicle Machinery Search & Rescue Technician
Instructor: Steve Cavender
Provides responders with a comprehensive understanding of accidents involving vehicles and machinery. This course teaches the responder how to recognize the hazard, access the victim, and stabilize the victim and the proper procedures for retrieval. Realistic training evolutions using the latest in equipment and techniques assure student retention of material.
Prerequisites: Vehicle Machinery Search & Rescue Operations
Equipment Required: Full Turnout Gear & Eye Protection
Price: $65.00
230 Warning Coordination (G-272) Jr.
Instructor: Dave Bradley
Every year the United States experiences more severe weather than any other country in the world. In order to reduce deaths, injuries, and property losses, emergency managers must work closely with the NWS and the news media to provide effective warnings that can be re-ceived and understood by people at risk. This course is intended to help facilitate that process.
Prerequisites: IS-100 or ICS-200
Price: $65.00
231 Wilderness Search & Rescue Technician
Instructor: Kevin Dalton
At the completion of this training, the student should be capable of safely performing, support-ing, coordinating, and managing a search and rescue in any wilderness environment in which the rescuer might be required to operate.
Prerequisites: Wilderness Search & Rescue Operations
Equipment Required: Outdoor Appropriate PPE
Price: $65.00