CSFA Conferences
CSFA conferences are open to all Firehouse World attendees.
Conference sessions are 90 minutes in length, unless otherwise noted. Program subject to change.
Continuing education credits, from East LA College, are available to all conference attendees. Attendees are encouraged to apply. Your participation benefits you and the fire service. Online registration for these college CE’s is now closed. However, you can still apply for them when you arrive at the convention center. Registration sheets will be available in each class as well as the CSFA booth and select conference locations. (CE’s are free to all California residents; out-of-state residents are required to pay an out-of-state fee.) Attendees that apply for credit will receive .5 units.
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| March 1, 2010 | |
| 8:00 AM | Steve Linthicum, Department Chair & Professor, Computer Science and Computer Information Systems, Sierra College, Rocklin, CA 4-Hour Class This presentation discusses the roles of technology within the firefighting community. Technology now plays a bigger part of your day and can enable or hinder you depending on your skill level of computer training and experience. How are your computer skills? |
| 8:00 AM | Marco Olmos, Firefighter/Training Officer, Tijuana, Mexico, Fire Crew member, Orange County FA (CA) 8-Hour Class The WMD/Terrorism Awareness for Emergency First Responders course was designed to provide the participant with knowledge of Weapons of Mass Destruction. This Basic course introduces the participant to topics such as WMD recognition, avoidance, isolation, and notification techniques to incidents involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) hazards, and the Emergency Response Guide Book. This course is NFPA 472 compliant and meets the requirements for Hazardous Materials Awareness Level training. This class is taught in Spanish. |
| March 2, 2010 | |
| 8:00 AM | March 2, 2010: 8am-4pm March 3, 2010: 8am-3pm (times approximate) Hosted by: NVFC Heart-Healthy Firefighter Program Instructed by: L&T Health and Fitness Free to all attendees, class limit: 30 students Register for Firehouse World online and enter promo code FPNVFC for free exhibit hall admission. This which will get you entrance into the show and allow you to attend this workship. Click Here to Register for the workshop The HWA workshop will provide Advocates with the basic principles behind developing sound health and wellness programs for firefighters at their firehouse. The two day workshop includes an overview of fitness and looks at the areas of anatomy, physiology and biomechanics, which are the building blocks for designing a safe and effective exercise program. Advocates are given guidance on establishing health & fitness goals, safety and injury prevention, exercise and stress management and how to develop a safe exercise program utilizing five components of fitness. Lessons on nutrition, healthy eating and weight management are also topics of focus as it relates to health and wellness. At the end of the workshop all Advocates are encouraged to participate in a demonstration of functional training exercises which can be easily utilized at the firehouse with minimal equipment. Advocates will leave with a Fit Kit and a workshop curriculum binder in addition to other resources to assist in improving upon or beginning a health and wellness program within their Department. Heart-Healthy Firefighter Program Description: The NVFC Heart-Healthy Firefighter Program is the only national program dedicated to saving America's firefighters and EMS personnel from their leading cause of death: heart disease. We invite firefighters, EMS personnel, and their families to explore the site to find out how easy, fun, and rewarding it is to get healthy. Join us at the Heart-Healthy Firefighter booth to receive a free health screening, participate in a Wii Fitness Challenge and to find more information about the program. Questions about the NVFC Heart-Healthy Firefighter Program? Contact Lillian Ricardo at 202-887-5700 x21 or lricardo@nvfc.org |
| 8:30 AM | Aimin Alton, B.A., MICP, Firefighter, Ventura County FD Through a review of case histories, this presentation reveals that narcotic diversion occurs in our industry more frequently than most realize. A hands-on section allows participants to discover how to spot tampered-with narcotics. Known methods of tampering are discussed and a new technique for checking narcotics prior to patient administration is demonstrated. An update regarding current research into field applicable technologies for identifying tampered-with narcotics will be given. |
| 8:30 AM | Shawn Millerick, Captain, San Bernardino County Fire, CA FD If you are involved with vertical ventilation operations on residential or commercial roofs, than this class is a must see. It covers how to properly read a roof for a quick, effective, and safe operation. This class goes into detail on existing features such as pipes, vents, ventilators, skylights, and many others that can be taken advantage of for openings, and for landmarks. Do you have confidence on the roof and the placement of your hole? This class will help you develop that skill and comfort. It doesn't matter if you are a rookie firefighter or the company officer, this class will raise your roof IQ. |
| 12:30 PM | Nancy Mraz, CEAP, United Firefighters of L.A. City/EAP This workshop will give participants an overview of what addiction really is, based on the latest research, and then will cover intervention techniques that will prove helpful in saving a life. Our focus will be on the work being done at the Employee Assistance Program at United Firefighters of L.A. City, Local 112 and how it as brought about stable recovery for many mebmer of the LAFD. We will also be covering how these same intervention techniques also apply to anyone suffering from an additiction, whether it's a co-worker, family member or friend. |
| 12:30 PM | Paul Stein, Chief (ret.), Santa Monica and Lakeside Fire Departments This high-powered, interactive training session is designed to identify critical skills and techniques that will make the difference between success and failure as a leader. This workshop is packed with leadership tools that can be used through your leadership career. Topics that will be discussed are, why many leaders don't pass the "acid test of leadership," bridging the generation gap in the workplace, techniques to getting people to want to work for you, powerful techniques for combating attitude problems and strategies for building a cohesive, high-performance team. |
| March 3, 2010 | |
| 8:30 AM | Milton Nenneman, Director, First Responder Coordination West, Dept of Homeland Security, Science & Technology Directorate Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology will present an overview of the Directorate and how interacts with first responders, particularly fire and EMS. Included will be an introduction to our outreach efforts and how first reponsder may engage science & technology as a resource, providing ideas for technology solutions; and, identifying capability gaps. An update on the technologies that are currently being developed in response to capability gaps identified by first responders will be discussed. A Q & A session will follow. |
| 8:30 AM | Dan Biddle, Ph.D., CEO, Biddle Consulting Group, Inc. (BCG) & Fire & Police Selection, Inc. (FPSI) Test Validation and the USSC Ricci v. DeStefano Case: How would your department's promotional tests stand up to legal scrutiny? The Court's judgment handed down on June 29, 2009 ruled against the City's decision to throw out the promotional test results because there was not a "strong basis in evidence" that the City would have been successfully sued in a testing lawsuit. Developing a sound and defensible promotional process for fire supervisory positions takes hard work. Legal databases are filled with examples of fire departments that have been challenged for their promotional processes, including several departments that have lost cases much like the Ricci case. What implications does this case have on today's fire departments? Would your department's promotional testing practices stand up to this type of scrutiny? These questions and others will be covered in this session. |
| 3:30 PM | Gene Gantt, Chief, Benicia FD (CA) We all have read and have a good understanding of being aware while on the fire ground or during an incident, but what about our day-to-day activities as managers? This program will focus on our abilities to become aware of the things going on around us both internal and external to our departments. We will discuss situations, news, and your thoughts and ideas on how we handle the "things" presented to us every day. As a Chief Officer, Fire Marshal or a fire service professional, we all have these situations coming at us. Can you be ready to see it happening before it happens? Will you be ready? |
