Utility Emergencies and Fires – What You Need To Know

Firefighters are not utility experts  but do respond first due to utility incidents  and will have to make life and death decisions before the utility experts arrive on scene. There is certain “need to know” information they must have to make intelligent  safe decisions  to ensure that responding firefighters and the people they are sworn to protect are safe. This course is designed to heighten the awareness of responding firefighters by pointing out the obvious  and some not so obvious hazards related to these incidents. It identifies the hazards and shows how this knowledge can positively affect and guide their decisions at these incidents. The course material is designed to help prevent a relatively minor utility emergency from becoming a major one and to help keep a major incident from becoming a tragedy. This course begins at 8:00 a.m.

Frank C Montagna  Battalion Chief  Officer  Development and Simulation Training at FDNY Bureau of Training