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Fire Operations

Vision: Unify and enhance county-wide training that improves operational consistency, implement the industry’s best practices, and create a shared culture of excellence.

The KFTC provides Fire Operations Training to our members, using a consistent training curriculum, developed, and delivered to enhance and streamline mutual aid operations. Fire Ops training will include the following areas:

  • Block Training – Quarterly Multi-Company Operations/Live Fire Training

    • Crawl-walk-run approach

    • Aligned with ICS continuing training topics

  • Firefighter Fundamentals Manual and Quarterly Training

    • Created and revised through quarterly meetings with subject matter experts from each department to ensure safety and uniformity in how we talk, how we train, and how we work.

  • Specialized Training – Providing admin/technology for tracking skills maintenance, deliver Awareness/Operations level refresher training to the rank and file, support drills with facilitation, planning, resource acquisition, other logistics, and eventually host classes. Specialized training includes:​

  • Technical Rescue – Monthly drills and quarterly MCOs

    • Rope Rescue

    • Confined Space

    • Trench

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  • Water Rescue

    • Marine/boat rescue training

    • Rescue swimmer quarterly training & annual testing.​

    • Wildland

    • Red Card certification support

    • Urban Interface Training annually

  • HazMat

    • Annual Awareness/Ops level refresher training

  • Aerial/Truck Operations – We hope to offer opportunities for Kitsap Truck Companies to train together regularly. It may look like this:

    • Annual Truck Academy

    • Quarterly skills maintenance

    • Specialized work assigned during regularly scheduled MCOs.

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