MAFFC 2026 Saturday
H.O.T. Class Schedule

It’s 0300 hours. Your crew is deep inside, chasing the seat of the fire. You’re at the panel, focused, calm until that pressure gauge nosedives to zero. The radio erupts with shouts for more water. Do you know what just happened? More importantly, do you know how to fix it before things go bad? The difference between someone who drives the rig and a true Driver/Engineer is the ability to quickly diagnose and solve water supply issues under pressure. This fast-paced, hands-on class is built for firefighters who already understand pump operations and want to level up. You’ll develop a structured, methodical approach to identifying and correcting real-world water supply and pump problems—no guessing, no panic, just performance. After a short briefing, we hit the ground running. Students will cycle through a series of increasingly complex pump scenarios designed to push their critical thinking, speed, and accuracy. By the end, you won’t just be moving levers, you’ll be managing the entire system with confidence, precision, and command presence.

In the modern fire environment, first-arriving crews are increasingly required to do more with less. “Access Under Pressure” is an immersive 8-hour hands-on course designed to develop and sharpen forcible entry tactics under the most demanding conditions—limited staffing, reduced visibility, and high-risk situations.

This class trains firefighters to rapidly gain entry into locked or fortified structures, enabling aggressive fire attack, targeted search, and control of the fire environment. Evolutions emphasize tool selection, mechanical advantage, and movement through zero-visibility environments to simulate real-world stress and obstacles.

Students will be challenged to make quick size-up decisions, force doors in smoke-charged conditions, and work seamlessly with minimal crew resources—all while maintaining situational awareness and driving meaningful fireground outcomes.

Designed to address today’s fireground maydays, this program is based directly on statistical data & case studies of near miss or Line of Duty Death incidents in the last 8 years. Our best resource to quickly resolve a MAYDAY incident lies within the companies already operating on the interior. This course presents students with the difficult tactical transition between operating on the fireground to becoming a distressed firefighter’s best chance at survival.

This course provides the students with Engine Company skills and tactics for commercial building fires. This class will cover 2 1/2” hose loads, deployments, advancements and flows. Through the lock and saw work for commercial store front doors, forcible entry for the difficult Charlie side doors, and top side operations.

Saving Your Own FAST

This course takes firefighter rescue training to the next level. There is a strong likelihood that a firefighter working on the interior will need to initiate—and ideally complete—the rescue of a downed colleague. To ensure a quick and successful rescue, we will present a systematic approach to both conventional and unconventional rescue techniques.

The training will focus on key skills, including:  
- Conducting a rapid assessment  
- Performing various drags and carries  
- Safely navigating stairs, and more  

These techniques will prepare firefighters to effectively transition a rescue from an interior crew member to an interception point, where specialized tools like the FAST Board can be utilized. This session will also provide an introduction to Basic FAST Board Operations (BFBO), further enhancing your ability to manage firefighter rescues in real-time.

The number of midrise and highrise buildings continues to sprawl into areas as growth drives demand.  Many fire departments are now faced with responding to incidents in these buildings, warehouses that are increasing in size, as well as legacy buildings already in place.   This course will provide hose package options, operational considerations, and evolutions to build a foundation for your department's response resources.

Real world forcible, passive, and respectful entry.  This 8 Hour hands on class will challenge students conventional mindset and tactics for gaining entry into locked buildings.  Conventional irons work is the tried and true option, but many times entry can made into building faster with the use of passive and respectful entry techniques.  Additionally so of these tactics can prove to be ideal during automatic fire alarms or service calls.  

During the 8 hours of hands on training, the class will be broken down into two sections; conventional irons work, and then passive & respectful entry techniques.  Students will have the opportunity to perform conventional irons work, hinge removal, through the lock skills, commercial store front lock bypass, padlock bypass, defeat security pins, overcome commercial magnetic locks, bypass hotel latches and more.

PPE required will be helmet, glove & eye protection. (full structural PPE recommended)

This intensive, data driven training course will emphasize the importance of developing a strong and successful search mindset focusing on the why not just the how. Participants will engage in 8 hours of hands-on, real-world search training, focusing on practical scenarios. There will be no searching in empty rooms or wide-open spaces. Instead, the class will simulate real-life conditions in a building designed to mimic a lived-in structure, complete with furniture and clutter.

Key topics will include search mindset, the split vs. oriented search method, victim removal, VEIS, searching with a can, and handling hoarder conditions. Scenarios will be conducted under fire and smoke conditions to create realistic and challenging environments for students.

The Grab Factory is a dynamic class based on students skill/experience level. There will be a refresher on residential primary search both through a door or window with removal techniques for both. We will cover truck functions that go along with primary search(ladders, forcible entry, etc) and then go straight into scenarios for the duration of the class.

Have you ever had the person stuck in an elevator call and the doors just seemed to not want to open? This class will not only go over types of tools needed, but also how the doors function so that you understand what has to happen for the door mechanism to disengage. We will go over different elevator types and how the cars operate. Then, we will build rescue systems and do hands on rescues from an 8th floor elevator shaft. A victim will have to be removed from the elevator car utilizing a Paratech Elevator Kit and Arizona Vortex with rope rescue equipment. This scenario will be ran for every student to get the opportunity to be on the rope and perform the rescue of the victim.  After taking this class, you will gain some real-world tips and tricks on how to get into even the most stubborn elevator cars. Rope Technician is not required but is helpful.

The course will provide necessary information to responders to safely free a passenger from elevator entrapments which occur in elevators of various types and will provide the means to utilize elevators for firefighting operations from a minimum staffing approach.  This class includes:

Awareness content  (Class room) - 

•        Elevator Introduction and overview

•        Elevator history, elevator types (Hydraulic and Traction), elevator components (doors, safety mechanisms, lock out tag out), equipment room overview, lock out tag out, safety considerations, etc.

•        Elevator manufacturer emergency response recommendations

•        Emergency response Phase 1 and Phase 2

•        Elevator use in firefighting operations

•        Review of current ASME guide A17.1 & ASME guide A17.4

•        Elevator entrapment emergency special considerations

Operations & Technician content (walk through and hands on) - 

•        Elevator car overview

•        Elevator equipment room overview (Traction & Hydraulic)

•        Elevator manufacturer emergency response recommendations/procedures 

•        Phase 1 and Phase 2 fire operations

•        Elevator door entry (manual operations)

•        Control room operations

•        Lock out / Tag out

•        Entrapment mitigation scenarios involving ambulatory and non-ambulatory occupant removalThe Elevator Emergency operations course covers a comprehensive awareness and operations level for personnel responding to elevator emergencies and fire ground elevator operations at highrise emergencies.  This will consist of both class room and operational portions to include:

Classroom - Elevator Introduction and overview Elevator history, elevator types (Hydraulic and Traction), elevator components (doors, safety mechanisms, lock out tag out), equipment room overview, lock out tag out, etc Elevator manufacturer emergency response recommendations Emergency response Phase 1 and Phase 2 - Fire Ground ops and Rescue ops Emergency rescue operations - review of ASME guide A17.4-2015 Special considerations

Walk through - Elevator car overview to include control room overview Elevator manufacturer emergency response recommendations/procedures Phase 1 and Phase 2 hands on fire operations, hydraulic and traction elevator overview to include lock out/tag out.

*PPE Requirements; helmets (firefighting or TRT approved safety helmet),  safety toe work boots/shoes and eye protection*

This course is designed to maximize the capabilities with the limited staffing operations we are facing across the country. With tool selection, tactics and placement we teach the rescuer to be able to accomplish rapid extrication of any victim they will face. The training and scenarios are based on twenty years of rescue experience and real world application. Students from all levels of experience will be able to take the knowledge learned back to their departments and help save lives.

Class Description coming soon

Class Description coming soon

We’re taking the old-school “Through the Lock” mindset and cranking it up for today’s fireground. If you ride the truck, you know the deal: access is everything—and smashing isn’t always the answer.

In this class, we’ll break down every door system you’ll face, from basic residential to high- security commercial setups. You’ll learn:

🔥 Size-Up Like a Pro – Read the door, the lock, and the situation before you commit 

🔥 Functional Behavior – Know how it works so you can make it work for you

🔥 Respectful Entry – Get in clean when the job demands it

We’re bringing real-world props, cutting-edge tools, and street-smart techniques so you can train like you fight. When you walk out, you’ll have:

• Advanced truck skills

• Confidence under pressure

• The ability to make entry without making a mess

Truck work is about options. This class gives you more. Bring your gloves. Bring your grit. Let’s get to work.

We’re taking the old-school “Through the Lock” mindset and cranking it up for today’s fireground. If you ride the truck, you know the deal: access is everything—and smashing isn’t always the answer.

In this class, we’ll break down every door system you’ll face, from basic residential to high- security commercial setups. You’ll learn:

🔥 Size-Up Like a Pro – Read the door, the lock, and the situation before you commit 

🔥 Functional Behavior – Know how it works so you can make it work for you

🔥 Respectful Entry – Get in clean when the job demands it

We’re bringing real-world props, cutting-edge tools, and street-smart techniques so you can train like you fight. When you walk out, you’ll have:

• Advanced truck skills

• Confidence under pressure

• The ability to make entry without making a mess

Truck work is about options. This class gives you more. Bring your gloves. Bring your grit. Let’s get to work.

Whether a seasoned firefighter or first day on the job, this class is for all levels of experience.  We will go over the principles of operations of the different types of gas and electric/battery operated saws used in the fire service.  There will be a whole skills station doing saw rehab/maintenance.  Other skills stations will go over body mechanics while using saws and tactics involving the use of saws.  Full PPE including SCBA is required as this class is also under live fire/smoke conditions.