Pierre Members Attend
SD Instructor Conference

(Pierre, SD) - January 20, 2003 – Several members of the Pierre Fire Department attended the 2003 Fire Service Instructors Conference held at the Pierre Ramkota this past weekend.

The conference is intended to teach instructors new skills and present information on specific classes so they can take that information back to their local departments. This year’s conference highlighted two features in the fire service.

The first is the Incident Command System (ICS) used to control both large and small events that emergency service organizations such as police, fire and ambulance respond to regularly. This system allows the on-scene units to expand or contract as necessary to handle the incident as is grows and subsequently reduces in size. This class was a “Train-The-Trainer” class designed as a hand off course from the National Fire Academy. People that completed the course are able to teach the ICS system to other personnel. Attending this course from Pierre were Doug Hinkle, Cory Hoffrogge, Tam Gatje, Russ Hendrix, Jason Roggow, and Mike Roemmich..

The second was Training Operations for Small Departments.  This shows attendees how to set up training in small departments in such a way that the training is both effective and efficient. Attending this course from Pierre was Greg Baker. Course attendance was limited to one per department.

A vendor was on hand from Plankinton, SD that had available a number of fire service related texts for purchase. This provides attendees a source of material that is difficult to find in general bookstores.

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