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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

14 Available Training Programs View All

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

This self-paced program on the Fire Hero Learning Network explains the firefighter health and safety benefits of automatic fire sprinkler and fire alarm systems and provides a set of core principles guiding the firefighter's interaction with these systems.

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.

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.

Responding to Violent Incidents

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.

Stress First Aid for Fire and EMS Personnel

Firefighter Life Safety Initiative #13 states: "Firefighters and their families should have access to counseling and psychological support."

Taking Care of Our Own®

This firefighter training module is designed to help you to better understand and support the needs of both family and fire service survivors after a line-of-duty death and to learn how to create a plan for your fire department in case of such an event.

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.

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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.