NYS Office of Fire Prevention and Control IVC trainings!!

We’re at it again! Thanks to funding through the EON Project we’re again helping out with Fire Safety training in our communities.

Before his retirement, Dale Gardner was a Distance Learning expert from New York’s North Country. He is also a Fire Safety Instructor for the New York State Office of Fire Prevention and Control. Last spring, from his Florida home, Dale instructed several classes of fire fighters in the St Lawrence - Lewis BOCES area. This was possible thanks to the Campbell-Savona School District allowing GST to utilize their IVC equipment to act as a bridge between Mr Gardner and the SLL BOCES area.

As a follow up to the success of those classes, the Canisteo-Greenwood School District will be the host site for about a dozen students in another NYS OFPC course taught by Mr Gardner. The “Incident Safety Officer” class will take place over a series of five 3-hour class meetings. Trainees will be at Canisteo-Greenwood Schools, SUNY Canton, Norwood Seaway Tech BOCES, and Edwards-Knox Schools. Since there are not enough certified Fire Safety Instructors, this excellent delivery method could well prove to be the method that allows firefighters throughout NYS to be able to access critical courses for their Fire Fighting careers.

We are especially grateful to staff at NYS OFPC, Canisteo-Greenwood Schools and St Lawrence-Lewis BOCES for their efforts in enabling this to happen – and to Mr Gardner for his persistence in promoting the use of IVC technology for the benefit of our communities!