Training
COMALA, COLIMA, MEXICO SUMMER/FALL 2020 TRAINING SYMPOSIUMS
IFTA in collaboration with Francisco Alejandro Rodriguez Garcia host summer training symposiums.
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Symposium Fall 2019
ARRIVALS & CHECK IN NOVEMBER 2019
Over 60 firefighters and emergency responders from 7 fire departments throughout Jalisco arrive to the training symposium. Participants get checked in at the city of Puerto Vallarta’s main fire station and emergency operations center.
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Classroom Instruction
Training symposium participants were divided into groups, and attended specific, specialized classroom instruction before the hands-on training portion.
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Driving and Pumping class
Thank you, Santa Barbara / Puerto Vallarta Sister City’s Committee
There was plenty of delicious food during the November IFTA train the trainer instructors workshop, engine pumping/driving/hydraulics training and wildland firefighting and safety symposium.
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Thank you, Chief Michael Calderazzo City of Boulder Colorado, Fire Department
And the City of Boulder Firefighters who volunteer their time and expertise to help other firefighters
Planning & arrivals 2019
The staff and students arrive to Puerto Vallarta
The students from eight different fire departments arrive to the City’s main fire station for check in, personnel gear safety check, pre-symposium vitals documentation coffee and informational meeting.
Day 1 training
Students are divided into four different working groups and start the classroom portion of the training, then move to the entrapment maze and vehicle extrication stations.
Fire Theory / Transitional Fire Attack
Firefighter entrapment / Search & Rescue / RIC
Vehicle Extrication
SCBA / ERAS