North American Fire Training Directors

Welcome

The administration of the North American Fire Training Directors is pleased to welcome you to its newly developed online undertaking. In our continuing efforts to keep our members, as well as firefighters, departments, and other interested parties, apprised of items of interest regarding the fire service in Canada and the United States, we bring you the NAFTD website.

Advanced technology is one of the most useful tools available to us to bring you the latest developments in fire training, education, legislation and information. Updated often, this website will give you late breaking developments in areas such as innovative training props and the latest in high-tech training.

To more easily generate information that will benefit you, we have developed a survey instrument and subscribed to a list serve that allows you to generate feedback that will allow this site to meet your needs. We look forward to hearing from NAFTD members, firefighters and officers, and other interested parties to quickly address the vital issues of today that are important to all of us.

  NAFTD Fact Sheet     Eriks Gabliks Media Advisory

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Dyslexia and Fire Service Webinar Recording Now Available

The recording of the May 26 Webinar is now available at https://youtu.be/HDQJOaRJwjY . Please feel free to share this and help support dyslexic learners across the globe!

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Microsoft and the North American Fire Training Directors proudly collaborate to host learning opportunity, "Dyslexia and Fire Service"

North American Fire Training Directors (NAFTD) is collaborating with Microsoft to deliver:
"Dyslexia and Fire Service; Tools and Techniques to Ensure Accessibility and Success"

This is a webinar discussing navigating education with dyslexia and practices to empower individuals with dyslexia to achieve more in their career.

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North American Fire Training Directors Hire First Executive Director

The North American Fire Training Directors (NAFTD), the primary point of contact for state, provincial and territorial fire training academies in North America, has appointed its first executive director. Ken Willette, a 35-year veteran of the fire service, will lead efforts to support the member organizations that train more than one million volunteer and career emergency responders in the United States and Canada by working with state, provincial and federal government leaders, as well as private sector representatives.

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NAFTD Releases Rules of Engagement for Safe Fire Service Training

NAFTD, working in partnership with the IAFC Safety, Health and Survival Section, is pleased to announce the release of the Rules of Engagement for Safe Fire Service Training. Developed through a consensus of training directors and safety officer across the U.S. and Canada, these ten simple steps will help achieve the goal of eliminating line-of-duty-deaths during training events. NAFTD President Allan Rice (Alabama) said,

"LODDs during training are preventable and unacceptable. We need to take concrete measures to eliminate the loss of firefighters during training events, and these Rule of Engagement are the roadmap for this effort".

The ROEs address subjects such as having a training plan, following recognized standards, having qualified instructional staff, taking all possible safety precautions, and insuring that participants are medically cleared before engaging in strenuous training.

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