Lieutenant Tim Klett, FDNY, educated hundreds of students in 10 locations across the state during NYSAFC's Fall 2011 Seminar Series, "Firefighter Safety & Survival: Recognize & Survive."
The program provided an in-depth look at the events leading up to any firefighter’s worst nightmare, a line of duty death. Students learned the warning signs or red flags that should alert everyone to a developing problem. The program reviewed several line of duty deaths and called attention to several warning signs that went unnoticed. Students also examined the transmission of "maydays" and "urgents" and the information that should accompany each. Klett sums up this program with, "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.'"
For information on the upcoming Spring 2012 Seminar Series, click here.
For more pictures from the Fall Seminar Series, click here.
New York State Association of Fire Chiefs