Fall 2011 Seminar Series Announced

NYSAFC is pleased to announce the Fall 2011 Seminar Series "Firefighter Safety & Survival: Recognize & Survive" with Lieutenant Tim Klett, FDNY, coming to 10 locations throughout New York state later this year.

This program will provide an in-depth look at the events leading up to any firefighter’s worst nightmare, a line of duty death. In this day of FAST or RIT teams, getting out alive or saving our own training, and new personal safety systems, there is really no true awareness training. Everything being taught is reactionary for when we get ourselves into trouble. Students will learn the warning signs or red flags that should alert everyone to a developing problem. The program will review several line of duty deaths and call attention to several warning signs that went unnoticed. Students will examine the transmission of "maydays" and "urgents" and the information that should accompany each. Our best survival training is awareness and our ability to react to the signs of a changing fire situation; it is time to "recognize and survive."

Tim Klett is a 29-year veteran of the fire service. He was a volunteer with the Newington (CT) Fire Department before becoming a paid firefighter with the City of New Britain (CT) Fire Department until his appointment to the FDNY in 1990. Klett worked in Engine Co. 69 of Harlem, one of the FDNY’s busiest engines, for 12 years. He currently works in Bronx, assigned to Engine Co. 88 in the 7th Division. Klett served on FDNY’s research and development team, which developed the department’s new PSS safety system. He also developed the engine company operations course for FIRESCUE Interactive’s training facility and serves as the school’s lead engine instructor. Klett is a certified New York state instructor, adjunct instructor for the Connecticut State Fire School, and frequently speaks about engine company operations. The author of "Stretching and Operating the First Line" published in Fire Notes by the Fire Department Training Network, Klett has written several articles for national fire service publications.

Pre-registration form available in August!

Seminar Dates and Locations:

October 11 – Westchester County - Ossining, NY
October 19 – St. Lawrence County – Canton, NY
October 25 – Schenectady County – Scotia, NY
November 1 – Yates County – Penn Yan, NY
November 2 – Genesee County – Batavia, NY
November 3 – Erie County – Tonawanda, NY
November 17 – Oneida County – Whitesboro, NY
November 29 – Broome County – Johnson City, NY
December 8 – Rockland County – Pomona, NY
December 14 – Dutchess County – Millbrook, NY

All programs begin at 7:00 p.m. Registration area opens at 6:30 p.m.

Special thanks to our sponsors, VFIS and Iamresponding.com