Thursday and Friday, February 19-20, 2009
(8 AM – 5 PM each day)
  • Company Officer Symposium

Thursday, February 19, 2009
(8 AM – 5 PM)
  • Department of Defense Day
  • NFPA 1031 Recertification
  • Shaker’s Forum
  • AWR-l60: Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Awareness
  • Clandestine Drug Lab Awareness
Everyone Goes Home: Courage to be Safe Program
  • Session 1: 8 AM – 12 PM
  • Session 2: 1 PM – 5 PM

Friday, February 20, 2009

Apparatus Section: EVT Certification Testing

  • Session 1: Friday, 8 AM-10:00 AM, Held at the DoubleTree Elm Room

(8 AM – 5 PM)

  • NFPA 1033 Recertification
  • Highway & Driver Safety for Today’s Emergency Responders (limited to 24)
  • Administrative Professionals Symposium
  • Real World – Rural Incident Command
  • Do YOU Know How To Talk To Me?
  • Chief Officer Symposium
Flashover Simulator (25 person limit per session)
  • Session 1: 8 AM – 12 PM
  • Session 2: 1 PM – 5 PM
Virginia Office of EMS
  • Session 1: 8 AM – 12 PM
  • Session 2: 1 PM – 5 PM
Virginia Local Assistance State Team (LAST) and PSOB
  • Session 1: 8 AM – 12 PM
  • Session 2: 1 PM – 5 PM
Virginia Department of Forestry
  • Session 1: 1 PM- 5 PM

Saturday, February 21, 2009

IMPORTANT NOTE: All Saturday courses (except where noted otherwise) will be offered twice on Saturday from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM and again from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM.

VDFP Training Updates

  • Session 1: 1 PM – 2:30 PM
  • Session 2: 3 PM – 4:30 PM
The Importance of Understanding Your Younger Worker
  • Session 1: 1 PM – 2:30 PM
  • Session 2: 3 PM – 4:30 PM
VA Local Assistance State Team (LAST) presentation – PS0B
  • Session 1: 1 PM – 2:30 PM
  • Session 2: 3 PM – 4:30 PM
Grant Writing Seminar
  • Session 1: 1 PM – 2:30 PM
  • Session 2: 3 PM – 4:30 PM
Real World – Rural Incident Command
  • Session 1: 1 PM – 2:30 PM
  • Session 2: 3 PM – 4:30 PM
Bioterrorism: Has it happened? Can it happen? Will it happen?
  • Session 1: 1 PM – 2:30 PM
  • Session 2: 3 PM – 4:30 PM
Common Threads in Tragedy
  • Session 1: 1 PM – 2:30 PM
  • Session 2: 3 PM – 4:30 PM
10 Days in 2007
  • Session 1: 1 PM – 2:30 PM
  • Session 2: 3 PM – 4:30 PM
The Winds of February 10, 2008 and the Green Ridge Mountain Fire…
  • Session 1: 1 PM – 2:30 PM
  • Session 2: 3 PM – 4:30 PM
Clandestine Drug Lab Awareness
  • Session 1: 1 PM – 2:30 PM
  • Session 2: 3 PM – 4:30 PM
Ethanol: The New Enemy in Flammable-Liquid Firefighting
  • Session 1: 1 PM – 2:30 PM
  • Session 2: 3 PM – 4:30 PM
Keeping Construction Costs to a Minimum
  • Session 1: 1 PM – 2:30 PM
  • Session 2: 3 PM – 4:30 PM
Drive to Survive:
  • Session 1: 1 PM – 4:30 PM only