THE BIB STANDARD

What we value and bring: no ego, high morale character, humility, passion and being the consummate student always willing to share and continually learn!

Our instructors have a variety of different backgrounds and experience made up from all ranks (Firefighter, Apparatus Operator, Lieutenant, Captain and Chief Officers) that have worked or work from the East Coast to the West Coast and everywhere in between. Instructors come from large urban departments like New York (FDNY), Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco, and suburban and rural departments like Eagle, Kent, Colorado Springs, Casper and Vancouver.

Our members have backgrounds in the military, building construction, wildland firefighting, education, USAR and technical rescue, hazmat, heavy equipment operators, endorsed skateboarders, BMX riders, and even a signed drummer in a band.

Most of our instructors came into the service as POC volunteers with small and under-staffed rural and suburban departments before they joined their career departments.

We are well rounded. Our instructors have been in your shoes and want to share with you, not talk at you or belittle you.

We haven’t seen it all and certainly don’t know it all, but we’ve collectively seen and experienced a lot and understand how to replicate real world fireground challenges and teach the skills to answer the call based on tried and true firegound wins and loses. Our topics and skills might not be the best way, certainly not the only way, but it’s OUR take collectively learned and shared from many mentors, departments, training groups, and experiences.

We will never share something that hasn’t been done on the actual fireground and that we wouldn’t do ourselves.

Students will leave our classes and put these skills to work the next day, no matter the size of your department. Students will be able to sit at the firehouse kitchen table and share info with their brothers and sisters, helping us accomplish our mission.