CD-ROM, ‘Net Combined to Train Firefighters

Imagine you're one of the volunteer firefighters in Drake, Red Feather Lakes or Cornish. You needed to learn some First Aid and have some training on house fires, grass fires and forest fires. You did that. Then Sept. 11 hit. Now, you're wondering how long it will be before you need to know how to respond to terrorist or a chemical-weapons attack…


Emergency WORLD™ Releases First Internet Training System for Terrorism Preparedness

Emergency WORLD, the leading provider of interactive knowledge training for emergency responders, today announced the release of the industry’s first interactive online courseware for terrorism preparedness. Emergency WORLD’s new courseware, “Emergency Response to Terrorism –Awareness Level,” teaches responders how to analyze and respond to incidents involving terrorist activity…


e-Learning: Using Technology to Effectively and Efficiently Train Rural and Volunteer Departments
As published in Fire Chief Magazine

The Internet provides an incredibly efficient and effective vehicle for knowledge-based training through e-learning. Almost all major business, universities and institutions — particularly those without the resources to continue to throw money at problems — are using the Internet to optimize their training and education practices. If implemented appropriately, rural and volunteer fire departments can learn a valuable lesson from the business and academic communities…


Firehouse Vet Produces Hot Training Materials!
As Published in Front Range TechBiz

If Mark Sprenger has his way, a lot of firefighting would be done on computer screens. Not that streams of electrons can douse a real blaze. But many of the skills used to extinguish fires, handle hazardous materials spills, and even respond to terrorism come from knowledge packed into an emergency responder’s memory far from the scene of an actual emergency…

 

 

 

 

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