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“Working Fire Training” (WFT) videos and training DVDs are now available to the MCVFA
membership and member departments, the MCVFA Training Committee announced on June 5, 2010.
For twelve months, starting June 2010 and continuing through
May 2011, WFT will supply MCVFA five subscriptions to the monthly WFT video
service. The DVD subscriptions will be shipped to the five regional vice
presidents of MCVFA to distribute to their region departments on a lending
library basis. All of the videos will be the property of the MCVFA and be made
available to member departments throughout the year. It will be up to each
region how to share the video training, using it at region meetings, lending to
member departments, setting up regional training meetings, or whatever methods
the region decides. It will take a few months to get this running effectively
and efficiently, and it is hoped that the regions will share their experiences
with the organization and procedures they use for the WFT training. Please contact your regional vice president for access to the DVD's.
In addition the MCVFA Training Committee has arranged with
WFT to offer unlimited use of the WFT Online Delivery Training Program for six
months starting in June 2010. This will be set up through the MCVFA web site
and will incorporate a private user name
and password available only to active MCVFA membership. Please contact your regional vice presidents for access. This
exclusive use by MCVFA members will allow access to two years of WFT training
video records on a trial basis. If this is successful and the use is measured
worthwhile, the MCVFA Training Committee will budget to continue the service.
We stress that this is a new venture for the MCVFA and puts the MCVFA in a leadership
role in firefighter training and safety in Massachusetts, if not in the country. It is hoped that our
leadership role in providing the WFT educational materials to our membership
will represent an example to other organizations in our state, region and
across the country. It is an extremely important benefit that we are able to
offer our members this year.
Throughout 2010 the MCVFA Training Committee will monitor
the WFT training video use and the
online training. We will adjust subscription delivery and procedures as months
pass to achieve the best results and training for our members. We will announce
the procedures for the online WFT services as soon as we have the service set
to go. Our communications for username and password availability will be
through the region vice presidents, who will control the information getting to
the members of their region.
For more information on this new firefighter training
venture sponsored by the MCVFA, for its active membership, please read the
article in the Summer 2010 issue of SMOKE Showin’
MCVFA Training Committee
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