OUR TRAINING FACILITY
Our facility, located at 5850 Shed Road, offers a wide array of training opportunities. Sitting on approximately 10 acres, it offers props such as: a four-story cinder block training tower with exterior stairwell; a two-story WHP training/burn building equipped with sprinkler system, cut away hatches for ventilation, and five areas for Class A
fire burns; a railcar; eighteen wheel tanker trailer; search and rescue maze; flashover prop; a multi-purpose wood frame house on stilts; drafting pit; and a large concrete slab. We also have two large classrooms with audiovisuals, and remote broadcast capabilities to all fire stations within the city.
Our facilities and faculty are offered to other city and parish public safety entities thereby further enhancing the local ability to work together for the safety and wellbeing of our community.
CITIZENS EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM
In coordination with the Bossier-Caddo Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, bi-annual courses are offered to local citizens at the Training Center
educating them in the areas of emergency efforts during times of high demand incidents. Citizens receive instructions in the areas of light search and rescue, first aid, fire safety, terrorism, and general preparedness. Website: www.c-bcitizencorps.org
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT PROGRAMS
In coordination with
Bossier Parish School Board, two courses are offered and are eligible to receive high school credits in the following areas:
Emergency
Medical Technician - Offered at the Caddo-Bossier Vocational Technical College, this course affords the full curriculum of the Department of Transportation and Development requirements. Students are eligible, upon satisfactory completion, the
opportunity to sit for the state practical applications test and the National
Registry written examination. Students
must be a high school junior or senior in good standing with
the school system.
Fire
Fighter I - Offered at the Training
Center location, this
course covers the entire curriculum to entry-level fire fighter.
Students must display a full understanding of all knowledge-based information and
demonstrate all required dynamic skills.
Uponsatisfactory completion, students are afforded the opportunity to
complete the
International Fire Service Accreditation Congress' testing through Louisiana State University's Fire and Emergency Training Institute. This course is
offered to high school seniors.
Website: technical.school@bossierschools.org
SPECIALIZED RESPONSE TRAINING
In coordination with
Roco Rescue Training, courses are hosted annually in the areas of Rope I, Rope
II, and Confined Space rescue. Many
members of our department are certified instructors with Roco, and travel to
various destinations to instruct.
Website: www.rocorescue.com
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION COURSES
In conjunction with Bossier Parish
Community College,
several courses are conducted within each spring and fall semester. Basic CPR, Advanced Cardiac Life Support,
Pediatric Advanced Life Support, and their respective refresher courses are
offered twice annually.
Website: www.bpcc.edu
For large groups needing any of the above courses, the
Training Division, staffed with Regional Faculty members of the American Heart
Association, is available to administrate courses on an as needed basis.
EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN-BASIC REFRESHER
In conjunction with Bossier Parish
Community College this 36
hours curriculum is also offered twice annually to help citizens and other
outside agency members maintain their active status as Emergency Medical
Technicians. Website: www.bpcc.edu
EMT-PARAMEDIC PROGRAM
This intense training program is catered to the practicing
EMT. Open to both departmental and
mutual aid agency personnel, this highly concentrated curriculum extends for 50
weeks and includes classroom education along with hospital clinical rotations
in skilled arenas and ambulance internship for field arenas. The curriculum meets and exceeds the
Department of Transportation requirements.
Students usually exceed the standard norm for passing their
certification testing. Classes are available annually. E-mail: debbiecoker@bossierfire.com
NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
A required program of the federal government, this
curriculum is offered to both members of the department and non-members that
are affiliated with agencies required to have staff educated in this
arena. We presently have two instructors
for the ICS 100, 200, 300, 400, and 800 levels of this program. Classes are available upon request.
E-mail: debbiecoker@bossierfire.com
FIRE FIGHTER I AND II RECRUIT
PROGRAM
An internal program extending four and one-half months, this
educational opportunity is required of all newly hired personnel that are not
certified to the level of IFSAC Firefighter II and IFSAC Hazardous Material
Operations. During the context of the
course, recruits are required to meet standardized performance levels in
physical fitness, fireground operations, safety, hazardous materials procedures,
emergency medical services, and extensive classroom requirements. Before graduating and becoming eligible for
the position of Probational Firefighter, recruits must also successfully pass
to a minimum, International Fire Service Accreditation Congress approved
testing for Hazardous Material Awareness Level, Hazardous Materials Operations
Level, Firefighter I, Firefighter II through Louisiana State University, and
Emergency Medical Technician-Basic level as approved through the National
Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians and the Louisiana Bureau of EMS. This program helps to assure that all newly
hired personnel are ready and competent to face, understand, endure, and
properly react, to the harshness of perils faced in the emergency service, and
provide the citizens of Bossier City
the finest possible protection.
OFFICER CONTINUING TRAINING
Required annually, this 12-hour curriculum is delivered to
all suppression divisions members in the ranks of Captain, District Chief, and
Assistant Chief according to NFPA 1021 Standard for Fire Officer
Professional Qualifications.
DRIVER CONTINUING TRAINING
Required annually,
this 12 hour curriculum is delivered to all suppression divisions members in
the rank of Driver according to NFPA 1002 Standard for Fire Apparatus
Driver/Operator Professional Qualifications.
NEW DRIVER COURSE
Required of all suppression personnel that have been
promoted to the rank of Probationary Driver, this 40-hour course encompasses
the entire NFPA 1002 Standard for Fire Apparatus Driver/Operator
Professional Qualifications. Participating
personnel must successfully pass both dynamic and cognitive portions of the
course.
The Bossier City Fire Department's Fire Training Division was formed in 1984. In February of 1994 we moved to our present location of 5850 Shed Road. A mileage tax allowed the Fire Department to build classrooms, a training tower, offices, and purchase equipment for this location. Since then, the Fire Department has added an additional concrete slab, a flash-over prop, a large storage building, a wood frame house, and a multi-story burn building to the facility. 
The Bossier City Fire Department Training Division is tasked with researching educational opportunities and sponsoring member attendance to additional classes and seminars outside of the Bossier City Fire Department. Many firefighters attend specialized courses in areas such as handling hazardous materials, high angle rescue, water rescue, and confined space extrication. The Training Division works to support the Bossier City Fire Department with the necessary education the firefighter needs to be knowledgeable and safe. 
