The Oakland Fire Department, San Francisco Fire Department and San Jose Fire Department are partnering with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) to present FSTAR Townhalls.
The townhall is a one-day training event focused on modern fire behavior research, science and the tactical considerations that can be used to reduce risk to firefighters operating on structure fires.
There will be three training sessions in locations in Northern California:
- Tuesday, December 15, in Oakland, California.
- Wednesday, December 16, in San Francisco, California.
- Thursday, December 17, in San Jose, California.
Each session will run from 9am-4pm (Pacific). Each session presentation content and speakers will be the same and all are open to the fire service at no cost to the attendee.
There will be two speakers: Dan Madrzykowski of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Chief Derek Alkonis of the Los Angeles (CA) County Fire Department.
Registration Information
Oakland Session (December 15): http://gofstaroaklanddec15.eventbrite.com
San Francisco Session (December 16): http://gofstarsanfrandec16.eventbrite.com
San Jose Session (December 17): http://gofstarsanjosedec17.eventbrite.com
Certificates of Attendance will be available on request based upon your registration information.
Questions? Contact us at 703-896-4823 or fstar@iafc.org