New York State Helps Departments Upgrade Training
TEACHERS and instructors know that knowledge and skills not practiced or reviewed soon diminish and ultimately become lost. One can see an application of this principle in the fire service. Quite often firemen receive certificates for the successful completion of a state, county or industry sponsored fire training school. They then return to their respective departments and devote little or no time to review and practice, or drill of the skills they have recently learned. Over a period of time these skills and knowledge diminish until they are no longer an effective tool of those firemen.
To help fire chiefs and training personnel to upgrade their training programs, the New York State Division of Fire Safety recently sponsored a series of sixteen-hour weekend seminar-workshops designed to improve the effectiveness of fire department training. The pilot program was attended by eighty-five chiefs; sixty-three deputy or assistant chiefs; forty-three captain training officers; twenty-two lieutenant training officers; eleven state fire instructors; seven county fire coordinators; and eleven institutional or industrial fire brigade chiefs. Because of the strong favorable reaction to this program, it was repeated during the spring and summer.
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