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Stress, First Aid & How To Effectively Regulate Your Nervous System

The last few years have been filled with many stressors. This class will help you to identify stress reactions in yourself and others. It will offer a flexible evidence-based framework where you will identify your own strengths when it comes to managing stress, so that you can develop an effective stress management plan that is tailored to your unique needs. In addition, by participating you will learn ways to efficiently regulate your nervous system and practical tools will be shared that can be used for yourself and with your peers during times of stress.

Using the P.A.C.E Model (Primary, Alternate, Contingency, and Emergency)

A Strategic Assessment builds on our Situational Awareness and helps build and maintain the team’s Common Operating Picture (COP) when shared throughout the incident, including the crucial transition periods involving mobilization, operational planning, in briefing / shadow periods, transitions, and transfer of command.

Once a new strategy is selected is must be communicated by the Command, IMT responders, cooperators, and the public. Courses of action, briefings, and products must be adjusted to align with the updated strategy. A variety of options exist for displaying and briefing the strategic plan. The following are examples.

This class will increase your awareness, planning, strategic thinking and thinking beyond the initial actions.

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This class is being taught by Chief Matt Petersen of the Elko County Fire Dept. Chief Petersen has a long and diverse Fire Management in all risk and wildland experience background including Elko County Fire Protection District, Elko County Emergency Management, US Bureau of Land Management, US Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife, Nevada Division of Forestry as well local government and volunteer organizations. Chief Petersen has successfully implemented a positive working relationship with other Federal, State, County, Local and private cooperators. Chief Petersen has worked on Engine (wildland/ all-risk), Handcrews, Helitack and Prevention modules. He was a type 3 Incident Commander for one of the Nevada Type 3 incident management teams, Team 4. He has worked on a California Type 2 IMT as a qualified Division Group Supervisor and as an Operations Section Chief Type 2, and for 4 years he served as a Division Group Supervisor on a California Type 1 IMT.

As automobiles are ever changing, extrication techniques and technology must evolve with them. This 8-hour course aims to inform participants on the most up-to-date extrication methods on all types of vehicles. The first 4-hours will be spent in a class discussing best extrication practices on vehicles from “Prius’s to Peterbilt’s”. Followed by a 4-hour H.O.T (hands on training) class. The class will also feature a section on electric vehicle extraction and fire suppression. This training will require full PPE minus a SCBA and will be limited to 18 participants.

Tyler Huff will be teaching the course. Tyler Huff has been in the fire service for 7 years; the last four being with The City of Elko Fire Department. The fire service is his passion and he firmly believes that being a firefighter is the best job in the world. Tyler began his fire service career by obtaining an associates of applied science at TMCC and a AEMT license. When not running calls you can find him with his bird dog, doing snow sports, or at the golf course.

Command, Leadership, and Introduction to Chaos

The course is designed to expand the knowledge of theory and framework for the concepts associated with Leadership in the Fire Service. Participants will review shortfalls that the traditional ICS model tries to employ on every incident and introduce alternatives concepts. There will be an introduction to the “Calm the Chaos” course and review basic concepts to running a division on a structure fire.

The course will be taught by Elko Fire Department’s Chief Johnston. Johnston has 23 years of experience in the Fire Service. He is a credentialed Chief Fire Officer, Chief Training Officer, and Chief EMS Officer with the Center for Public Safety Excellence. Chief Johnston has a Master’s of Science in Emergency Management, Bachelor’s in Fire Administration, Fire Technology, and Psychology and is a Paramedic.

As the conference gets closer, we will begin to highlight some of the instructors and courses that are being offered.

The first of these is called “Railroading 101”. This course will help first responders to understand railroad response, contacting the railroad, understanding shipping documents, rail equipment, general rail safety, and response assets.

This course is being taught by Jake Hammer who currently works for Union Pacific. Jake has over 13 years in both the Fire Service and the Hazmat field. Currently Jake has been the Hazmat Manager over the Rocky Mountain service unit for 7 years. In that time managing some of the largest derailments across the Union Pacific system.

For more information, please visit the annual training conference tab under training on the NSFA website!

Register here!

The Lee Engine Company Volunteers of the Elko Fire Department are excited to welcome you to the 88^thAnnual Conference for the Nevada State Firefighter’s Association (NSFA) on June 21 to June 24, 2023 in Elko, NV.

For more information please visit the annual training conference tab under training on the NSFA website!

We can’t wait to see you there!

William (Will) Howard Johnston 

August 9, 1951 – January 10, 2023 

It is with great sorrow we share the passing of Chief Will Johnston on January 10, 2023. Will was a member of Carlin Volunteer Fire Department for 45 years prior to moving to Jarbidge. He served as Fire Chief for more than 50 years in the State of Nevada and had a total of 54 years of total fire service, serving in many capacities around the state. He served on the Nevada Standards and Training Committee and the Board of Fire Services, was a past president of Nevada State Firefighters Association. He was one of the earliest EMTs in the State of Nevada with an EMS number of 38. He trained and inspired so many over the years up until his death. His love for the fire service was who he was and who he inspired to be always. 

Services will be held at the Elko Convention Center in the Conference Center, 724 Moren Way, Elko, NV. on January 28th, 2023, at 11:00 am. Followed by a procession for internment in Carlin at the Carlin Cemetery. 

NSFA’s 88th Annual Training Conference will be hosted in Elko June 21st-24th, 2023! We can’t wait to see you there!

Come see us at the 2022 Nevada Rural EMS Conference, September 15-17th, at the Elko Convention Center! We will have a booth set up in the vendor area! We can’t wait to see you there!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-rural-nevada-ems-conference-tickets-372758018267

We hope everyone has had a nice summer! During our business meeting at the annual training conference we swore in our new board of directors. Throughout the month we will be introducing you to the 2022-2023 board of directors for the NSFA!

Meet Andrew Ostendorf -Director

Andrew Ostendorf moved from rural Illinois to Elko, NV in 2010 to work as a mine geologist. He has been a firefighter for the City of Elko for +7 years,  a member of various mine rescue teams for +10 years, and is currently working as an environmental engineer for mine closure and reclamation projects. He is the third in a family tradition of firefighting following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. When not helping out his community you can find him in the mountains skiing, backpacking, or fly fishing.