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Fire Hero Learning Network Goes Live!

National Fallen Firefighters Foundation Launches New Online Learning Network for the Fire Service.

Emmitsburg, MD – January 2013 – The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation has launched a new online learning network, FireHeroLearningNetwork.Com. This new learning network will bring critical training in safety, operations, and community relations to more than 1 million firefighters and fire officers in the United States. In addition to working on standard computers, FireHeroLearningNetwork.Com is mobile-ready for tablets and smartphones.

FireHeroLearningNetwork.Com, created with a Fire Prevention & Safety Grant from the United States Fire Administration (USFA), provides vital, expert-vetted safety and operations education that will save firefighter and civilian lives.In addition to presenting best practices for line firefighters to implement, a number of modules will assist leadership and command in improving how the department works, its SOPs, and its interactions with the public. Chief Ronald Jon Siarnicki, Executive Director of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, explains, “The Fire Hero Learning Network will help us reach a larger number of firefighters across the country.Whether you’re a fire chief or a probationary member, the online network can be used to have those important discussions about strategy, tactics and focusing on everyone going home at the end of a tour of duty.” The content on the learning network is in line with Everyone Goes Home®, the Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives program, and all applicable national standards relating to the fire service.

Once registered, users can access free multimedia modules with video, interactive knowledge checks, user progress tracking, completion certificates, and a transcript for those pursuing continuing education credits. As FireHeroLearningNetwork.Com expands, it is planned to be the central hub of all online, interactive training offered by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.Chief Dennis Compton, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, explains, “The Mission of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation is to honor the fallen, take care of the families and to learn from the incidents that injure and kill firefighters so we can prevent them from happening.The Learning Network will help us to accomplish the mission as we expand the courses and the audience that we reach.”

Since the 1600’s, the fire service in the United States has made great sacrifices to save lives and property.The long, proud tradition of learning and information sharing within the fire service has resulted in many safety and operational improvements over the centuries. FireHeroLearningNetwork.Com is the next step in the effort to spread knowledge that saves lives and improves how fire departments respond to emergencies of all types. News Archive

24 Available Training Programs View All

Advanced Pre-Planning for Complex Properties

This program describes the importance of a comprehensive pre-incident plan for complex or unusual properties.

After Action Review

After Action Review (AAR) offers the fire service the opportunity to formalize the tradition of informal post-incident conversations.

Automatic Fire Sprinkler and Alarm Systems

Learn the firefighter health and safety benefits of automatic fire sprinkler and fire alarm systems and core principles guiding interaction with these systems.

Automatic Sprinkler System Design and Function

Learn the advantages of automatic sprinkler systems, types of systems, how they work, and what components they contain.

Communication & Mentoring for Company Officers

This Self-Paced Program helps company officers understand their interpersonal communication and mentoring responsibilities.

Company Officer's Health & Safety Responsibilities

This Self-Paced Program helps company officers understand their leadership role in the fundamentals of firefighter health and safety.

Courage To Be Safe®

This firefighter training module provides an introduction to all sixteen Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives and assists the user in taking the first steps toward addressing these safety initiatives in their job and department.

Creating Change in the Fire Service

This module is a roundtable discussion between five fire service leaders about how to create change in the fire service and lead a culture of safety.

Curbside Manner: Stress First Aid for the Street

Just as doctors talk about "bedside manner" when talking to patients, the "curbside manner" of first responders really makes a difference in how people experience and process a difficult life event.

Developing a Pre-Incident Plan for a Protected Building

Learn how to complete a pre-incident plan for a sprinkler-protected property, paying special attention to its fire suppression systems.

Emergency Vehicle Driving Safety

Learn organizational measures and safe driving practices that address the root causes of emergency vehicle crashes and empower drivers, operators, and chauffeurs to be safety leaders.

Engine Company Operations at Fires in Sprinklered Properties

Learn key actions take at automatic sprinkler system activation response to assess the situation and control the operation of the sprinkler system.

Fire and Rescue Training Safety

This module discusses factors influencing training safety and recommended practices to mitigate hazards and lower the risk of firefighter deaths and injuries while training.

Health & Safety at Wildland Fires

This module discusses the unique characteristics of wildland fire responses, the known hazard categories and safety practices that mitigate these hazards, and how to practice effective risk management.

Leadership, Accountability, Culture and Knowledge (LACK)

This module educates fire officers how to make changes in their departments that will help prevent line of duty deaths.

Peer Support Programs for the Fire Service

This awareness-level, self-paced module will cover the foundational principles of a peer support program and direct users to resources that can help them design and establish a peer support program in their department.

Preventing Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in the Fire and Rescue Services

An awareness-level module of actionable information about the carbon monoxide hazard to firefighters, including exposure sources, detection, effects, and mitigation strategies.

Responding to Violent Incidents 2.0

This self-paced program focuses on firefighter health and safety within the context of responding to known violent incidents and in cases where an incident turns violent during response.

Saving Lives: Inspiring Stories in Community Risk Reduction

This self-paced program spotlights two company officers and one survivor who have made a significant impact in locally and nationally through community risk reduction.

Taking Care of Our Own®

Learn how to understand and support the needs of both family and fire service survivors after a line-of-duty death and create a plan for your fire department to cope with an LODD.

Top-Loading Automatic Storage and Retrieval Systems

This program introduces TL-ASRS, covering what they are, how they work, associated fire hazards and how to mitigate those hazards, preplanning, and response.

When an LODD Occurs: Incident Commanders Speak

This program addresses the potential psychological and operational impact of the line-of-duty death, meeting the needs of the surviving family and of the department members.

Why Advanced Pre-Planning is Important: A Greensboro Case Study

This program highlights a case study of a fire at 811 South Elm Street in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Why Sprinklered Buildings Burn

Discover why sprinklered buildings can still burn, including design issues and sources of impairment, and how to mitigate these causes.

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The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation provides FireHeroLearningNetwork.Com to further the organization's mission and the goals of the Everyone Goes Home® program by providing free, vetted training and resources to all members of the fire service. Fire Hero Learning Network delivers critical safety, operations, and community relations fire service training, from the line firefighter through to command and leadership. Unless otherwise noted, the modules on FireHeroLearningNetwork.Com are appropriate for all levels of the fire service, all staffing characteristics (career, volunteer, and combination), all jurisdictions in the United States, and all types of firefighting (including public, private, structure, vehicle, wildland, military, transportation authority, State Fire Marshal, special squad, and academia). Available interactive training resources include: modules, operational checklists, fire attack scenarios, and podcasts.