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1 Northwestern Area Training Academy 12th Annual Educational Conference Sponsored by Northwestern Area Training Academy in cooperation with Saturday & Sunday, November 7 & 8, 2009 Iowa Central Community College Campus Fort Dodge, Iowa Exhibits by Vendors

2 Northwestern Area Training Academy (NATA) 12th Annual Educational Conference Saturday & Sunday, November 7 & 8, 2009 Iowa Central Community College One Triton Circle Fort Dodge, Iowa Applicant must be 18 years of age or older To register by phone: , Ext or or ; Fax: Cost: $100-2 Day $50-1 Day includes Lunch & T-Shirt REGISTRATION FORM (Please Print) Mail to: Health Science Dept. Iowa Central Community College One Triton Circle Fort Dodge, IA Circle T-Shirt Size: M L XL XXL XXXL Name: Social Security #: - - (Last) (First) Address: (Street Address or P.O. Box) (City) (State) (Zip) Home Phone: Work/Cell Phone: Payment Enclosed: $ Charge to: Master Card/Visa Card #: Name on Charge Card: Expiration: Verification code: (3 digit code on back of card) Sponsorship: Bill To: Attn: (Service or Department) Address: (Street Address or P.O. Box) (City) (State) (Zip) *** Individual from Iowa volunteer and combination fire department registered in these courses will receive a $5.00 reduction per day in fire school registration, due to partial grant funding from the Iowa Volunteer Firefighters training fund. Refer to brochure for descriptions and more information on courses and gear required. Class sizes are limited. Pre-register early!! Cancellations after November 2nd will not be given a refund. This policy will be strictly adhered to. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice for Saturday. Saturday Classes ZHE-100-FD04 AG Rescue - Grain Bin *** ZHE-100-FD06 EMS Topics Bleeding/Shock ZHE-100-FD08 EMS Topics MCI After the Sort ZHE-100-FD20 Confined Space Rescue *** ZHE-100-FD11 Ethanol Emergencies First Responders ZHE-100-FD13 PearS, Pediatric Emergency Assessment ZHE-100-FD14 Roadway Safety: Creating Safe Work ZHE-100-FD16 Tractor Rollover *** ZPS-203-FD01 Trench Rescue *** ZPS-203-FD03 Interior Fire Attack-Ground Entry *** ZPS-203-FD07 New Technologies in Extrication ZPS-203-FD08 Explosive Recognition ZPS-203-FD09 Introduction to High Angle Rope Rescue ZPS-203-FD10 Surface Water Rescue *** ZPS-203-FD11 Forcible Entry Class ZPS-203-FD14 Performing & Surviving Critical Search ZPS-203-FD15 Art of Ventilation thru Reading Smoke ZPS-203-FD16 Fire Workshop 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice for Sunday. Sunday Classes ZHE-100-FD05 AG Rescue-Grain Bin *** ZHE-100-FD07 EMS Topics Bleeding/Shock ZHE-100-FD09 EMS Topic MCI After the Sort ZHE-100-FD10 Confined Space Rescue *** ZHE-100-FD12 School Bus Rescue *** ZHE-100-FD15 Roadway Safety ZHE-100-FD17 Anhydrous Ammonia ZHE-100-FD19 Tractor Rollover *** ZPS-203-FD02 Trench Rescue *** ZPS-203-FD04 Interior Fire Attack-Ladder *** ZPS-203-FD06 Vehicle Fire ZPS-203-FD12 Forcible Entry Class ZPS-203-FD13 Fire Fighting With White Stuff ZPS-203-FD17 Fire Workshop Saturday and Sunday Classes ZHE-100-FD03 Vehicle Rescue Extrication I & II *** ZPS-203-FD05 Essentials of Fire Fighting ZPS-301-FD01 Alerrt Advance Law Enforcement CUT ALONG DOTTED LINE AND RETURN

3 Vehicle Rescue Extrication I & II (Fire, EMS, Law Enforcement) CEHs: 12 EMS (Optional) Class Limit: 20 Day(s): Sat. & Sun. (12 hour class) Course #: ZHE-100-FD03 *** Equipment/Gear Required: Personal protective clothing and eye protection is required for the hands-on portion of this class. Course Description: This 2-day course will use a combination of lecture and hands-on applications to provide students with the knowledge and practical skills to safely treat and extricate patients from multiple vehicle accidents. Students will demonstrate decision-making process and scene management on various staged scenarios. Instructors: PRI Staff and Fire Service Training Bureau Field Staff AG Rescue Grain Bin (Fire, EMS, Law Enforcement) CEHs: 6 EMS (Optional) Class Limit: 20 Course #: Sat. ZHE-100-FD04 *** Sun. ZHE-100-FD05 *** Equipment/Gear Required: Personal protective clothing, leather gloves, safety glasses, work boots and hard hat, or helmet. Course Description: A class designed to give students knowledge of grain bin design and structure as well as inherent dangers involved in working with and around these structures and equipment related to grain handling and movement. Emphasis will be on safe rescue techniques for personnel when faced with grain bin entrapments. Instructors: PRI Staff and Fire Service Training Bureau Field Staff EMS TOPICS Bleeding/Shock, Geriatric Trauma, Splinting, Airway Management (EMS) CEHs: 6 EMS (Formal) Class Limit: 50 Course #: Sat. ZHE-100-FD06 Sun. ZHE-100-FD07 Course Description: This program will have four one and a half hour classes. Topics covered are Bleeding and Shock, Geriatric Trauma, Splinting and Airway Management. Discussion includes the use of a tourniquet for bleeding, the affect of trauma on the elderly, various ways to splint and a review of base/advance airway management. Instructors: Cheryl Blazek, EMT-P, EMS Coordinator, Southwestern Community College; Darin Ruud, PS Mary Greeley Medical Center, Ames On registration form, please be sure to mark your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices for both Saturday and Sunday. Example: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice for Saturday. 2nd Saturday Classes ZHE-100-FD04 AG Rescue - Grain Bin *** ZHE-100-FD06 EMS Topics - Bleeding/Shock ZHE-100-FD08 EMS Topics-MCI After the Sort ZHE-100-FD10 Confined Space Rescue *** ZHE-100-FD11 Ethanol Emergencies First Responders ZHE-100-FD13 Pear, Pediatric Emergency Assessment 1st ZHE-100-FD14 Roadway Safety: Creating Safe Work ZHE-100-FD16 Tractor Rollover *** ZPS-203-FD01 Trench Rescue *** 3rd ZPS-203-FD03 Interior Fire Attack-Ground Entry *** ZPS-203-FD07 New Technologies in Extrication ZPS-203-FD08 Explosive Recognition ZPS-203-FD09 Introduction to High Angle Rope Rescue ZPS-203-FD10 Surface Water Rescue *** ZPS-203-FD11 Forcible Entry Class ZPS-203-FD14 Performing & Surviving Critical Search ZPS-203-FD15 Art of Ventilation thru Reading Smoke ZPS-203-FD16 Fire Workshop *** 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice for Sunday. Sunday Classes ZHE-100-FD05 AG Rescue-Grain Bin *** ZHE-100-FD07 EMS Topics - Bleeding/Shock 1st ZHE-100-FD09 EMS Topic-MCI After the Sort ZHE-100-FD12 School Bus Rescue *** ZHE-100-FD15 Roadway Safety ZHE-100-FD17 Anhydrous Ammonia 3rd ZPS-203-FD02 Trench Rescue *** ZPS-203-FD04 Interior Fire Attack-Ladder *** ZPS-203-FD06 Vehicle Fire 2nd ZPS-203-FD12 Forcible Entry Class ZPS-203-FD13 Fire Fighting With White Stuff ZPS-203-FD17 Fire Workshop *** Saturday and Sunday Classes ZHE-100-FD03 Vehicle Rescue Extrication I & II *** ZPS-203-FD05 Essentials of Fire Fighting ZPS-301-FD01 Alerrt-Advance Law Enforcement EMS TOPICS MCI After the Sort, Cardiac Emergency, Trauma Care, Stroke Emergency (EMS) CEHs: 6 EMS (Formal) Class Limit: 50 Course #: Sat. ZHE-100-FD08 Sun. ZHE-100-FD09 Course Description: This program will have four one and a half hour classes. Topics covered are MCI after the Sort, Cardiac Emergency, Trauma Care and Stroke Emergency. Discussion includes START and JumpSTART algorithms and the triage process for a rural EMS setting. Updates on cardiac and stroke emergencies and a review of the Golden Hour of Trauma the mechanism of trauma, appropriate treatment goals, and the flow of a trauma patient in a rural EMS setting. Instructors: Matt Imming PS, Spencer Hospital; Dean Rush, EMT-P Trinity Regional Medical Center, Fort Dodge Confined Space Rescue (EMS, Fire) CEHs: 6 EMS (Optional) Class Limit: 20 Course #: Sat. ZHE-100-FD20 *** Sun. ZHE-100-FD10 *** Equipment/Gear Required: Will need helmets, leather gloves, safety glasses and footwear that provides ankle support. Coveralls are optional. Course Description: This course is designed to provide basic information for confined space rescue responses. Students will practice rescue techniques in a state-of-the-art training simulator and will discuss facility pre-planning, working with the IMS and establish procedures for conducting rescues. Instructors: PRI Staff and Fire Service Training Bureau Field Staff Trench Rescue New CEHs: None Class Limit: 15 Course #: Sat. ZPS-203-FD01 *** Sun. ZPS-203-FD02 *** Equipment/Gear Required: Will need helmets, leather gloves, safety glasses and footwear that provides ankle support. Coveralls are optional. Course Description: This course will give responders hands-on training on trench rescue procedures and the content will adhere to NFPA 1006 and NFPA The purpose of this course is to explain basics strategies to safe guard responder s health and safety when dealing with potential dangers association with trench collapse emergency. They will use the new state-of-the-art trench collapse simulator. Instructors: PRI Staff and Fire Service Training Bureau Field Staff *** Individual from Iowa volunteer and combination fire department registered in these courses will receive a $5.00 reduction per day in fire school registration, due to partial grant funding from the Iowa Volunteer Firefighters training fund.

4 Interior Fire Attack-Ground Level Entry CEHs: None Class Limit: 24 Course #: ZPS-203-FD03 *** Equipment/Gear Required: Full protective clothing, S.C.B.A. and spare cylinder Course Description: Student will gain information and practice the skills required to enter structures at ground level. The basic principles of firefighter safety, fire behavior, thermal layering, flame over, back draft, ventilation, stages of fire, and fire streams will be reviewed in the classroom. Students will put their knowledge to use in the Fire Service Training Bureau s two-story Mobile Fire Training Trailer. Instructors: Fire Service Training Bureau Field Staff Interior Fire Attack-Ladder Entry CEHs: None Class Limit: 24 Day(s): Sun. (6 hour class) Course #: ZPS-203-FD04 *** Equipment/Gear Required: Full protective clothing, S.C.B.A. and spare cylinder Course Description: In the Ladder Entry course the students will gain information and practice the skills required to enter structures using ladders. The basic principles of ladder usage, water application, and ventilation will be reviewed. The class will practice correct ladder usage, advancing hose, fire attacks, and communications between working teams with the incident commander. Students will put their knowledge to use in the Fire Service Training Bureau s two-story Mobile Fire Training Trailer. Instructors: Fire Service Training Bureau Field Staff Essentials of Fire Fighting CEHs: None Class Limit: 25 Day(s): Sat. & Sun. (12 hour class) Course #: ZPS-203-FD05 Equipment/Gear Required: Full protective clothing, S.C.B.A. and spare cylinder Course Description: Introduces basic skills for fire fighters safety. This course will give students the skills necessary in fire behavior, safety, basic S.C.B.A, ropes, ladders, forcible entry, and fire hose rolls and carries on the fire scene. Instructor: Dan Walker, Grinnell Fire Dept., PRI Staff Vehicle Fire Day(s): Sun. (6 hour class) Course #: ZPS-203-FD06 Equipment/Gear Required: Full protective clothing, S.C.B.A. and spare cylinder. Course Description: This course is an introductory to vehicle firefighting. Vehicle fires have several unique hazards and circumstances that set them apart from other types of fires. This course is designed to reduce the safety risk to personnel during vehicle fire suppression through sound strategies and reasoned tactics. Instructors: Scott McFarland, Lieutenant, West Des Moines Fire Dept., PRI Staff New Technologies In Extrication New Day(s): Sat. (6 hours class) Course #: ZPS-203-FD07 Course Description: This 6 hour session will present to the students the technologies in today s new automotives. Topics covered include patient restraint systems, and the associated injuries and hybrid vehicles and the potential dangers to patients and emergency personnel. Instructors: Tim Quick, PRI Staff Ethanol Emergencies For First Responders (EMS, Fire, Law Enforcement) CEHs: 6 EMS (Optional) Class Limit: 30 Course #: ZHE-100-FD11 Course Description: One of the fastest growing industries in Iowa brings numerous challenges to the first responder. This course will cover a variety of topics including hazardous materials, fire, emergency medical and technical rescue response. Students will learn common hazardous substances along with the hazards they pose while being used in these plants. Confined space and technical rescue situations, fires and fire suppression systems will also be covered. Students will participate in group activities and tabletop exercise. Instructors: Cliff McFarland, West Des Moines Fire Department Explosive Recognition CEHs: None Class Limit: 50 Course #: ZPS-203-FD08 Equipment/Gear Required: Dress according to weather. Course Description: Students will learn to recognize the various types of explosives, improvised devices and who to call for assistance. The afternoon will consist of a live demonstration of different types of explosives. Instructor: Dave Shipper, Special Agent State Fire Marshall Division and Staff Introduction To High Angle Rope Rescue Course #: ZPS-203-FD09 *** Equipment/Gear Required: Helmets, Leather Work gloves, Footwear with good ankle support. Course Description: This course provides information and skills necessary to perform rescues utilizing ropes. Topics include sizeup and scene management, knots, equipment, anchors, ascending/ descending techniques, and mechanical advantages. Students will participate in rescue evolutions under supervision of the instructors. Instructors: Jerry Eslick, West Des Moines Fire Dept, PRI Staff and Fire Service Training Bureau Field Staff *** Individual from Iowa volunteer and combination fire department registered in these courses will receive a $5.00 reduction per day in fire school registration, due to partial grant funding from the Iowa Volunteer Firefighters training fund.

5 Forcible Entry Class Pre-Registration is encouraged! Class sizes are limited. Pre-register early!! School Bus Rescue (Fire/EMS) CEHs: 6 EMS (Formal) Class Limit: 20 Day(s): Sun. (6 hour class) Course #: ZHE-100-FD12 *** Equipment/Gear Required: Full protective clothing, to include eye protection Course Description: Do you think of young children in large yellow vehicles when you see the words school bus? Think Again. This course will take a look at school buses today and various rescue methods to include advanced extrication techniques and patient care challenges. Upon completion the student will be able to: identify early in the incident the resources involved due to multicasualties; demonstrate proper patient packaging and removal techniques; recognize the need for S.T.A.R.T. Triage System and understand the special medical needs associated with bus accidents. Instructors: Jerry Eslick, West Des Moines Fire Dept, PRI Staff and Fire Service Training Bureau Field Staff Surface Water Rescue New (Fire, Law Enforcement) Day(s): Sat. (6 hours) Course #: ZPS-203-FD10 *** Equipment/Gear Required: Personal Flotation Device (PFD). In addition, if you have any of the following equipment, please bring: water Rescue Helmet, Water Boots, Ice or Dry Suits. Course Description: This course is designed for agencies that need a formalized water rescue team due to their responses at lakes, ponds, non-flowing and flowing waterways. Subjects covered include rescuer safety; self rescue techniques, pre-planning, and size-up of water hazards to include ice rescue. Hands-on evolutions will take place on Saturday. The content will meet NFPA 1006 and NFPA 1670 requirements. Instructor: Bryan Getner, PRI and Fire Service Training Bureau Field Staff CEHs: None Class Limit: 25 Course #: Sat. ZPS-203-FD11 Sun. ZPS-203-FD12 Equipment/Gear Required: Full Protective Clothing Course Description: America s increasing preoccupation with security is making Fire Service entry more and more difficult. Quick and safe entry is essential for effective rescue and interior fire fighting. This class will include conventional forcible entry and introduce students to twenty first century tools and techniques. Students will have an opportunity to practice with a variety of tools and techniques utilizing a new forcible entry prop. Instructors: Chris Buckman, Iowa City Fire Dept. and Anthony Gaul, Sergeant Bluff Fire Dept. Fire Fighting With The White Stuff: Fundamentals of Foam CEHs: None Class Limit: 25 Day(s): Sun. (6 hours) Course #: ZPS-203-FD13 Equipment/Gear Required: Full Protective Clothing Course Description: This comprehensive course on foam application is developed to expose participants to the different types of foam and foam application equipment available today. Participants will learn when and where to use the different types of foam and the application rates for each. There will be plenty of hands-on time. Instructor: Cliff McFarland, Training officer, West Des Moines Fire Dept. and Jay Fredrickson, Regional Sales Manager for Chem Guard Performing & Surviving Critical Search & Rescue New CEHs: None Class Limit: 25 Course #: ZPS-203-FD14 Equipment/Gear Required: Full Protective clothing, S.C.B.A. & spare Cylinder Course Description: This one-day hands-on class will focus on strategies for searching for, finding, protecting and removing emergency victims while maximizing the firefighter s own safety. They will focus on four search dimensions: search size-up and strategy. Accessing victims, victims management and escape. Instructor: Fred Malven Nevada Fire Dept. and ISU Professor, College of Design; Nevada Fire Staff The Art of Ventilation Thru Reading Smoke New CEHs: None Class Limit: 30 Course #: ZPS-203-FD15 Course Description: One of the most important size-up skills an officer or fire fighter can have is the ability to capture in an instant the size of a fire and the potential for a rapid, hostile fire event like a flashover or smoke explosion. Often, smoke issuing from a structure is the only clue available to predict fire behavior. This session will give first-due officers and fire fighters a 4-step process to read smoke and predict hostile fire events. Instructors: Scott McFarland, Lieutenant, West Des Moines Fire Dept.

6 PEARS: Pediatric Emergency Assessment, Recognition and Stabilization (EMS) CEHs: 6 EMS (Formal) Class Limit: 24 Course #: ZHE-100-FD13 Course Description: In an emergency every second counts. The new PEARS course is designed to prepare EMT s and First Responders who infrequently see critically ill children to identify a pediatric victim at risk of severe cardiopulmonary distress. To intervene early to stabilize the child and contact the next level of care as soon as possible. Instructors: Reylon Meeks, RN, MS, MSN, EMT, Clinical Nurse Specialist for Blank Children s Hospital, Dr. Ken Cheyne Blank Children s Hospital Roadway Safety: Creating Safe Work New (Fire EMS) CEHs: 6 EMS (Formal) Class Limit: 30 Day(s): Sat. or Sun (6 hour class) Course #: Sat. ZHE-100-FD14 Sun. ZHE-100-FD15 Course Description: Fire, EMS personnel routinely respond to emergency incidents on our nation s roadways. In an unfortunate trend, emergency responders are increasingly falling victim to secondary incidents that occur as they were dispatched. NFPA and OSHA have developed new requirements for how emergency responders operate at roadway incidents. This course will cover the new requirements for safe work zones and allow students to practice with hands-on exercises. Instructors: Rich Rodewald, Council Bluffs Fire Department FIRE WORKSHOP Enhancing Grant Writing Skills for the AFG Program, Iowa Firefighter Minimum Training Standard: What You Need To Know New Day(s): Sat. or Sun (6 hour class) Course #: Sat. ZPS-203-FD16 Sun. ZPS-203-FD17 Course Description: This program consists of two 3-hour workshops on grant writing and minimum training standards. The program will assist fire departments in the grant writing process, with emphasis on the Assistance to Firefighters Grant program. The workshop will focus on understanding the electronic scoring process and developing of a good grant narrative. This workshop will also cover the minimum training standards. What are the Iowa Minimum Training Standards? When do these Standards take effect? Does my department need to change the way we conduct meetings to accommodate the standards? What topics can be used for training? What type of recordkeeping needs to be done? This course will answer these questions, and you will receive necessary forms for recordkeeping. Instructors: Randy Novak, Bureau Chief, Fire Service Training Bureau *** Individual from Iowa volunteer and combination fire department registered in these courses will receive a $5.00 reduction per day in fire school registration, due to partial grant funding from the Iowa Volunteer Firefighters training fund. Tractor Rollover (EMS, Fire, Law Enforcement) CEHs: 6 EMS (Optional) Class Limit: 20 Course #: Sat. ZHE-100-FD16 *** Sun. ZHE-100-FD19 *** Equipment/Gear Required: Full protective clothing Course Description: The tractor rollover extrication-training program will give the student an in-depth look at how tractors roll and new safety devices that help stabilize a tractor including Roll-Over Protection Systems (ROPS). The latest data shows 2.32 million tractors in the US without ROPS. Students will gain knowledge on how to safely conduct a tractor rollover incident. The hands on portion of the program will deal with trauma patient care, cribbing, and extrication tools. Students will perform several evolutions in patient extrication. Instructors: Dan Neenan, NECAS/Peosta, Iowa in partnership with the Fire Service Training Bureau Anhydrous Ammonia (EMS, Fire, Law Enforcement) CEHs: 6 EMS (Optional) Class Limit: 20 Day(s): Sun. (6 hour class) Course #: ZHE-100-FD17 Course Description: This course is designed to give emergency responders basic information concerning anhydrous ammonia including tactical consideration involving typical storage and transportation releases. Course will meet the annual HAZWOPER training for operations level responders. Instructors: PRI Staff ALERRT Advance Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (Law Enforcement) Day(s): Sat. & Sun. (12 hour class) Course #: ZPS-301-FD01 Course Description: The ALERRT course is designed to teach law enforcement, corrections and military officers how to address, respond and stop an active shooter. The curriculum includes classroom and force-on-force training utilizing Simmunitions. This course was designed by Texas State University, San Marcos. Instructors: Iowa Central Homeland Security On registration form, please be sure to mark your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices for both Saturday and Sunday. Example: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice for Saturday. 2nd Saturday Classes ZHE-100-FD04 AG Rescue - Grain Bin *** ZHE-100-FD06 EMS Topics - Bleeding/Shock ZHE-100-FD08 EMS Topics-MCI After the Sort ZHE-100-FD10 Confined Space Rescue *** ZHE-100-FD11 Ethanol Emergencies First Responders ZHE-100-FD13 Pear, Pediatric Emergency Assessment 1st ZHE-100-FD14 Roadway Safety: Creating Safe Work ZHE-100-FD16 Tractor Rollover *** ZPS-203-FD01 Trench Rescue *** 3rd ZPS-203-FD03 Interior Fire Attack-Ground Entry *** ZPS-203-FD07 New Technologies in Extrication ZPS-203-FD08 Explosive Recognition ZPS-203-FD09 Introduction to High Angle Rope Rescue ZPS-203-FD10 Surface Water Rescue *** ZPS-203-FD11 Forcible Entry Class ZPS-203-FD14 Performing & Surviving Critical Search ZPS-203-FD15 Art of Ventilation thru Reading Smoke ZPS-203-FD16 Fire Workshop *** 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice for Sunday. Sunday Classes ZHE-100-FD05 AG Rescue-Grain Bin *** ZHE-100-FD07 EMS Topics - Bleeding/Shock 1st ZHE-100-FD09 EMS Topic-MCI After the Sort ZHE-100-FD12 School Bus Rescue *** ZHE-100-FD15 Roadway Safety ZHE-100-FD17 Anhydrous Ammonia 3rd ZPS-203-FD02 Trench Rescue *** ZPS-203-FD04 Interior Fire Attack-Ladder *** ZPS-203-FD06 Vehicle Fire 2nd ZPS-203-FD12 Forcible Entry Class ZPS-203-FD13 Fire Fighting With White Stuff ZPS-203-FD17 Fire Workshop *** Saturday and Sunday Classes ZHE-100-FD03 Vehicle Rescue Extrication I & II *** ZPS-203-FD05 Essentials of Fire Fighting ZPS-301-FD01 Alerrt-Advance Law Enforcement

7 Additional Information Applicants: All applicants must be 18 years of age or older. CEHs: Approval for continuing education for EMS personnel by the Iowa Bureau of EMS is provided through Iowa Central Community College. Law Enforcement: Under the Administrative Code of Iowa ( (3)) Hour(s) of training received through NATA may be applied to a peace officer s required in-service training at the discretion of the employing agency administrator. 12th Annual Educational Conference Saturday & Sunday, November 7 & 8, 2009 Pre-Registration is encouraged! Class sizes are limited. Pre-register early! Registration: Saturday, 7:30 a.m. Sunday, 7:30 a.m. Refund Policy/Cancellation: A full refund will be given for cancellations prior to November 2, After that date, there will be no refunds! This policy will be strictly adhered to. NATA reserves the right to cancel any session that does not meet the minimum registration requirements or to change the instructor. T-Shirts: In order to fulfill your t-shirt request, you must be registered two weeks prior to the conference. Any requests received after November 2nd will be filled by availability of sizes. Personal Protective Clothing (Full Gear) Requirements: If personal protective equipment requirements apply, it is indicated in the class description. Students must provide the following equipment in order to participate: 1) Helmet (NFPA compliant) 2) Protective hood 3) Coat with liner (NFPA compliant) 4) Pants with liner (NFPA compliant), Note: 3/4 length boots are not approved in lieu of pants. 5) Fire fighting boots 6) Gloves (Cal OSHA or NFPA compliant) 7) Selfcontained breathing apparatus with spare bottle. Note: Bottles under current hydrostatic test will be refilled at no cost. BEARDS: (facial hair) Persons with beards (including full face beards, mutton chops, and goatees), will not be allowed to participate in hands-on portions of sectional classes requiring the use of S.C.B.A. or involving live fire. Persons with beards may attend the classroom portion and participate in other portions of the class which do not require S.C.B.A. or do not involve live fire. No exceptions will be made to these requirements. Iowa Fire Service Bookstore: The Iowa Fire Service Bookstore (IFSB) will have a booth at the Northwestern Area Training Academy Educational Conference. The IFSB generally operates as a mail order service provided by the Fire Service Training Bureau. The booth will give customers the opportunity to look at and purchase merchandise. Orders can also be placed for any item not on-hand at the Training Academy. Purchases from the IFSB will allow you to supplement your training and classroom activities with educational manuals that will enhance your learning. Disclaimer: Northwestern Area Training Academy, Iowa Central Community College and its co-sponsors, except as provided under Chapter 25-A of the Code of Iowa relating to tort claims, shall not be held liable for damages or injuries to students or persons participating in the school. Participants are advised to purchase individual insurance if their employer does not provide coverage for injuries. IOWA CERTIFICATION EXAM: The Fire Service Training Bureau will offer the Fire Fighter I, II and Instructor I exams at the Voc-Tech Building on Friday, November 6, 2009, at 5 p.m. Attendance is by pre-registration ONLY. NO WALK-INS WILL BE ALLOWED! Those testing for the first time need to submit an application form with certification fee or billing information. Please note, the exam will take a minimum of three hours. To pre-register or to receive an application, please contact the Fire Service Training Bureau at Fire Fighter I and II exams will be based on the 2002 NFPA standard and the Essentials 5th Edition. Bring full protective equipment and S.C.B.A. to exam site. No facial hair in the area of the face piece seal is allowed. No exceptions will be made.

8 Iowa Central Community College One Triton Circle Fort Dodge, Iowa Non-Profit Org. US Postage Paid Fort Dodge, IA Permit No. 4 Northwestern Area Training Academy Welcome to the 12th Annual Educational Conference! Saturday & Sunday, November 7 & 8, 2009 Sponsored by Northwestern Area Training Academy and Iowa Central Community College. Choose from a variety of classes during this two-day event. Conference Schedule Saturday: 7:30 8:30 am... Registration & Exhibits 8:30 8:50 am...welcome & Opening Remarks 9:00 am 12 Noon... Classes 12:00 Noon 1:00 pm... Lunch (Provided) & Exhibits 1:00 4:00 pm.... Classes Sunday: 7:30 9:00 am... Registration & Exhibits 9:00 am 12 Noon... Classes 12:00 Noon 1:00 pm... Lunch (Provided) & Exhibits 1:00 4:00 pm.... Classes Conference Location The conference will be held at Iowa Central Community College (ICCC). To get to ICCC, take Highway 169 south or north (depending on your direction) and turn east on Business 20. At the first stop light is the ICCC entrance. Once on the campus, signs will direct you to your destination. Conference Cost $100 for 2-Day / $50 for 1-Day The cost of the conference includes lunch and a t-shirt. *** Individual from Iowa volunteer and combination fire department registered in these courses will receive a $5.00 reduction per day in fire school registration, due to partial grant funding from the Iowa Volunteer Firefighters training fund. Lodging Reservations for lodging can be made at any of the following Fort Dodge motels: Best Western Budget Host Inn Comfort Inn Super 8 Motel Country Inn AmericInn Exhibits Exhibits will be located in the Iowa Central Community Career Education Building. Exhibits will be open on Saturday from 7:30 am to 5:00 pm and on Sunday from 7:30 am to 1:00 pm. A special thanks to all the vendors who supplied equipment and to Region V Hazardous Materials Response Commission for all of their support. We would also like to thank the Fire Service Training Bureau for all their support and use of equipment.