Oklahoma FirefighterFebruary 202021
Feb 2020 CLASS SCHEDULE Continued
All courses are FREE unless otherwise noted Emergency Vehicle Driver Training: UTV/ATV (76779) Feb. 22 (8 hours) Camp Gruber - Braggs Wildland Incident Commander’s Toolbox (76781) Feb. 22-23 (16 hours) Camp Gruber - Braggs Wildland Fire Fighting: Backfiring Operations (76784) Feb. 22 (8 hours) Camp Gruber - Braggs Oklahoma Emergency Vehicle Drivers Training (76786) Feb. 22 (8 hours) Camp Gruber - Braggs Fire Line Evacuation (76846) Feb. 22 (8 hours) Camp Gruber - Braggs NIMS ICS 400 (EMI) Advanced Incident Command System (76924) Feb. 22-23 (16 hours) McClain County EM - Goldsby Pipeline Awareness for Emergency Responders (76953) Feb. 22 (4 hours) Camp Gruber - Braggs Oklahoma Emergency Vehicle Drivers Training (77002) Feb. 22 (8 hours) Ames Fire Department Wildland Fire Fighting: Fundamentals (77003) Feb. 22-29 (16 hours) Canadian Valley Tech - Chickasha Exterior Offensive Fire Attack / Structural Fire Scene Size Up (76775) Feb. 23 (8 hours) Camp Gruber - Braggs Emergency Vehicle Driver Training: UTV/ATV (76780) Feb. 23 (8 hours) Camp Gruber - Braggs Wildland Fire Fighting: Backfiring Operations (76785) Feb. 23 (8 hours) Camp Gruber - Braggs
Oklahoma Emergency Vehicle Drivers Training (76787) Feb. 23 (8 hours) Camp Gruber - Braggs Hazardous Materials Technician for WMD-HazMat Emergencies (75492) Feb. 24-March 6 (80 hours) Owasso Fire Dept. Training Center Hazardous Materials Operations for WMD Refresher (75474) Feb. 25 (8 hours) Stillwater Fire Department OEM-FEMA: G386 Mass Fatalities Incident (77014) Feb. 25-26 (16 hours) Western Tech Center - Elk City Hazardous Materials Operations for WMD Refresher (75475) Feb. 27 (8 hours) Stillwater Fire Department Hazardous Materials Operations for WMD Refresher (75476) Feb. 28 (8 hours) Stillwater Fire Department Hazardous Materials Operations for WMD Refresher (75477) Feb. 29 (8 hours) Alva Fire Department Calling the MAYDAY (76649) Feb. 29 (8 hours) Lebanon Fire Department Oklahoma Emergency Vehicle Drivers Training (76942) Feb. 29 (8 hours) Texoma Fire District - Kingston Oklahoma Emergency Vehicle Drivers Training TtT (76943) Feb. 29 (8 hours) Texoma Fire District - Kingston Wildland Fire Fighting: Fundamentals (77005) Feb. 29-March 1 (16 hours) Northeast Tech Center - Afton Introduction to Farm Rescue (77019) Feb. 29 (8 hours) Red River Tech Center - Duncan
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fire service training
Caroline Reed
OSU FST Director
creed@osufst.org • 405-744-5727
Collaboration and Teamwork in Oklahoma Today Greetings everyone! I ran across an article in one of the academic journals about the five building blocks of a collaborative team. I found this useful and thought I would share it with the fire service. This was originally published in “Tips for Teams: a Ready Reference for Solving Common Team Problems” (McGraw Hill, New York). Collaboration and teamwork require a mix of interpersonal, problem solving and communication skills needed for a group to work together towards a common goal. These are skills you have to have to be successful in the fire service. Whether you choose to be a chief officer or a line firefighter, you have to be able to work constructively with members of a group. These following skills are a good foundation to help build a collaborative team environment. • Trust: Be honest work to eliminate conflicts of interest avoid talking behind each other’s back; trust teammates (you must trust them before they will trust you); give team members the benefit of the doubt. • Clarify Roles: Review team member’s roles frequently; clarify responsibilities when action planning; relate team member expectations to team’s
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overall purpose; figure out ways to help each other. • Communicate Openly and Effectively: Work to clear up misunderstandings quickly and accurately; seek to understand all perspectives; err on the side of over communicating; reinforce and recognize team member efforts. Learn to listen well. • Appreciate Diversity of Ideas: Evaluate a new idea based on its merits; remember that reasonable people can and do differ with one another; avoid remarks that draw negative attention to a person’s unique characters; do not ignore that differences exist among team members; try to learn as much as you can from others. • Balance the Team’s Focus: Regularly review and evaluate the effectiveness of team meetings; design individual performance goals that emphasize both results and teamwork; praise individual effort; assign specific team members to monitor tasks needs and others to monitor relationship needs; hold team celebrations for achieving results. Currently, the organizations at the state level are working together well to serve our emergency responders. As the Director of Oklahoma State University Fire Service Training, it is my sincere hope that we will continue to work together for the benefit of all emergency responders.
educational Advisory
Corey Conrady
Drummond FD
Educational Advisory Committee New Year New Me! Training 2020!
I remember my first year at the State Fire School -- it was in 2001 in Okmulgee! I took the Liquid Petroleum Gas class. Way back then, it was called LPG. I remember it was my first year as a firefighter and I was ecstatic and scared to death about being in training with other firefighters from across the state. This year, the school will bring a large amount of free training to the firefighters of this state and surrounding states. I feel very fortunate and am very happy to be on this committee, helping YOU, my brothers and sisters get this educational experience. We have pulled educators from all over Oklahoma and beyond to bring you the highest, freshest and best classes that we can offer. We will have plenty of HOT Classes, like Pump Ops, Helo Landing, Live Fire, FLaG and loads more. And plenty of COLD classes to enhance your leadership and further your knowledge of firefighting, leadership, EMS, and safety! We hope you will join us for all the evening activities we have planned, as well. So please join us this May for the John F. Futhey II Oklahoma State Fire School. I’m looking forward to meeting and teaching YOU! Also be on the look out for the Facebook and OSU-FST announcement for open enrollment, because classes will fill up fast.