The Fire Department Training Network offers a variety of no-nonsense, reality-based, training products. Designed around the highly-successful FIRESCUE Interactive format, the Network's training products are results-oriented.


FireNotes™ Training Manuals

Finally, easy-to-follow, tell-it-like-it-is training books that are reality-based! Let's face it — it's time to focus on the need-to-know not the nice-to-know.

24.95 (19.95 member)
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Chapters Include:

  • Fireground Survival Training–What's the Big Deal?
  • Preparing for Fireground Survival
  • Managing YOUR MAYDAY
  • SCBA Emergencies
  • Disorientation Emergencies
  • Emergency Escape Techniques
  • Firefighter Survival Training Sessions

Written by Jim McCormack, Indianapolis Fire Department
with Bob Pressler, FDNY (retired)

34.95 (29.95 member)
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Chapters Include:

  • SECTION 1 — Firefighter Rescue
    Firefighter Rescue: The Ultimate Fireground Challenge
    Searching for a Firefighter
    Assessing, Stabilizing and Packaging a Firefighter
  • SECTION 2 — Rapid Intervention Teams
    Why Do We Need Rapid Intervention Teams
    The Rapid Intervention Team
    RIT Tools & Staging
    Preparing the Fireground — Proactive RIT Tasks
    Responding to a MAYDAY — The RIT Deployment
    Commanding Rapid Intervention Operations
  • SECTION 3 — Firefighter Rescue & RIT Training Sessions

Written by Jim McCormack, Indianapolis Fire Department

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Chapters Include:

  • Size-Up: Who, What, When, Where, Why?
  • Two Basic Approaches to Fireground Size-Up
  • The Five-Point Size-Up
  • The Thirteen-Point Size-Up
  • The Fireground Size-Up: Putting It All Together
  • Training Sessions

Written by Bob Pressler, FDNY (retired)

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Chapters Include:

  • The Purpose of the First Line
  • Determining Line Size & Position
  • Estimating the Stretch
  • Stretching the First Line
  • Engine Company Assignments
  • Engine Company Tools
  • Operating the First Line During Emergencies
  • Training for the Engine Company

Written by Tim Klett, FDNY

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Chapters Include:

  • History of Thermal Imaging
  • Thermal Imaging Technologies
  • How Thermal Imaging Works
  • Safety Considerations & Thermal Imaging
  • Individual Chapters On: Size-Up, Fire Attack, Overhaul, Ventilation, Search & Rescue, and HazMat
  • Non-fire Uses of Thermal Imaging

Written by Jonathan Bastian, former Training Specialist for Bullard Manufacturing


FDTN Company Training Drills
(6 complete lesson plans per Volume)

Adapted from the Network's highly successful monthly training package—FIRESCUE Interactive Department Trainer—we're pleased to offer four volumes of training drills: Engine Company Operations, Truck Company Operations, Firefighter Survival, and Firefighter Rescue & Rapid Intervention Teams.

Each volume contains six complete training sessions which inlude:

  • Session Overview and Goals
  • Resource and Reference Listing
  • Detailed Lesson Plan (outline)
  • Hands-On Activities (3 drills per session)
  • Student Handout
  • Student Test

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Engine Company Operations Training Drills

  • Stretching & Advancing the First Line
  • Performing Difficult Stretches
  • Fireground Water Supply
  • The 21/2-inch Handline
  • Fireground Master Streams
  • Car Fires

6 Detailed Lesson Plans — 18 Hands-On Activities

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Truck Company Operations Training Drills
  • Forcible Entry
  • Ground Ladders
  • Fireground Search: Residential
  • Vent–Enter–Search
  • Peaked Roof Ventilation
  • Flat Roof Ventilation

6 Detailed Lesson Plans — 18 Hands-On Activities

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Firefighter Survival Training Drills
  • Firefighter MAYDAY
  • SCBA Emergencies I
  • SCBA Emergencies II
  • Firefighter Disorientation
  • Escaping Deteriorating Conditions
  • Emergency Window Exits

6 Detailed Lesson Plans — 18 Hands-On Activities

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Firefighter Rescue & RIT Training Drills
  • Searching for a Firefighter
  • Emergency Air Supply
  • Moving a Downed Firefighter
  • RIT Tools
  • RIT Ops: Preparing the Fireground
  • RIT Ops: Responding to a MAYDAY

6 Detailed Lesson Plans — 18 Hands-On Activities


FireNotes™ Training Videos

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This video was designed with training in mind. Watch the entire video, or a chapter at a time, and then hit the training ground and perform the skills…the best training video available in the fire service!

Firefighter Survival DVD Chapters Include:

  • Developing a Survival Attitude
  • SCBA Knowledge
  • Mayday Management
  • SCBA Low Profile Emergencies
  • SCBA Entanglement Emergencies
  • Disorientation Emergencies
  • Wall Breaching
  • Ladder Slide

51 minutes

FDTN's no-nonsense training videos compliment its FireNotes series of training books. These videos will allow you to SEE the skills before and after you train. There's no substitute for performing the skills but videos provide an excellent way to accelerate learning and refresh the material. These short, to-the-point, videos will be an excellent addition to any training program or your own personal library. Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words!


Training Lesson Plans

Back issues of the FIRESCUE Interactive Department Trainer are available for $20.00 per issue. Choose from individual issues, yearly volumes, or a complete set. For complete Volumes, or the entire collection of back issues, contact the Network for pricing. Contact the Network for additional information or to order. Quantity discounts are available to Network members.

Listing of Previous FIRESCUE Interactive Department Trainers


Volume IX (2005)

  • Fireground Operations: Private Dwellings
  • Venting Windows
  • Firefighter Survival — Part I
  • Forcing Padlocks & Chains
  • Engine Ops: Extended Hose Stretches
  • Fireground Ops: Controlling the Utilities
  • Radio Communications on the Fireground
  • Strategy & Tactics: Modern Strip Malls
  • Truck Company Ops: First-Due Truck
  • Engine Company Ops: First-Due Engine

Volume VIII (2004)

  • Ventilation: Private Dwellings
  • RIT: Assessing, Stabilizing & Packaging a Firefighter
  • Commercial Building Forcible Entry
  • Developing a Sustained Water Supply
  • Vehicle Extrication I – Assignments, Tools, Staging
  • RIT Air Pack
  • Aerial Master Streams
  • Rescuing Civilians
  • Hose & Nozzle Basics
  • Big Lines & Defensive Operations
  • Moving Victims Over Stairs
  • SCBA Air Management

Volume VII (2003)

  • Engine Company Emergencies
  • Firefighter Window Rescues
  • Conventional Forcible Entry
  • Fireground Collapse & Firefighter Rescue
  • Engine Company Basics
  • Rapid Intervention Team Tools
  • Rope-Based Systems for Firefighter Rescue
  • Apparatus Operations – Engine Basics (pumping)
  • Apparatus Operations – Ladder Basics (aerial ops)
  • Commercial Building Fires
  • Truck Company Operations
  • Stretching Hoselines to Upper Floors

Volume VI (2002)

  • FF Survival: Escaping Deteriorating Conditions
  • RIT: Preparing the Fireground
  • SCBA Emergencies Part I
    Reduced profile, Entanglements
  • RIT: Responding to a MAYDAY
  • SCBA Emergencies Part II
    Out-of-Air, Equipment failures
  • Fireground Search – Residential
  • Company Level Preplans
  • FF Survival: Emergency Window Exits Part I
  • Truck Company Tools: The Chain Saw
  • Engine Ops: Performing Difficult Stretches
  • Fireground Communications
  • The 2-1/2 Gallon Extinguisher (the Can)

Volume V (2001)

  • FF Rescue: Removing a FF Through the Floor
  • Ground Ladders on the Fireground
  • Forcible Entry — Rotary Saws
  • Stretching and Advancing the First Line
  • Engine Company Operations — Water Supply
  • Ventilating Flat Roofs
  • Fireground Team Search
  • Fireground Size-Up
  • Carbon Monoxide Responses
  • Fixed Suppression Systems — Sprinklers
  • Fireground Skills Review
  • FF Rescue: Moving a Downed Firefighter


Volume IV (2000)

  • Vent-Enter-Search Operations
  • RIT Operations: Emergency Air Supply
  • Firefighter Disorientation
  • FF Rescue: Searching for a Firefighter
  • Peaked Roof Ventilation
  • Positive Pressure Ventilation
  • Master Streams
  • The 2 1/2-inch Handline
  • Car Fires
  • Firefighter MAYDAY
  • Fireground Entanglement Emergencies
  • Foam Operations — Flammable Liquids

Volume III (1999)

  • Exit Drills for Firefighters
  • Navigating Stairs
  • Salvage — Catching & Controlling Water
  • Incident Benchmarks
  • Power Saws
  • Rapid Intervention
  • Large Area Search
  • Engine Company Operations
  • Ladder Company Operations
  • Air Bags
  • Forcible Entry
  • Primary Search

Volume II (1998)

  • Patient Removal
  • Hoisting Equipment
  • Firefighter Through the Floor
  • Standpipe Systems
  • Supply Line Layouts
  • Vehicle Extrication
  • SCBA Emergencies
  • Power Tools
  • Size-Up / Assignments
  • Stretching Initial Attack Lines
  • Ground Ladders
  • Forcible Exit — Breaching

Volume I (1997)

  • First Alarm Assignments
  • Tanker Shuttles
  • Sprinkler Systems
  • The Ladder Slide
  • Rapid Intervention
  • Cribbing
  • Search and Rescue


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