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Video for training

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There's a wide range of DVD, CD and VHS video which may be used, purchased, or borrowed.   

 

  • If your department has the funding you can find great training video for sale from Fire Engineering, NFPA, Action Training Systems, IdeaBank, Coastal, Syndistar, and more.  You may be able to secure FEMA grant $ for this purpose.
  • Nonprofit organizations like the Home Safety Council and government agencies like NIST and the US Chemical Safety Board have professional-quality online video and also issue some free DVDs.  
  • Your insurer (VFIS, ESIP, PERMA, Utica National, etc.) may have video training available free to keep or lend, or possibly online courses.   Ask!    
  • The Academy Library has over 3,300 video items available for loan.  Use the online catalog !  
  • The National Emergency Training Center will lend many of its video items via interlibrary loan.  Find items you want in their online catalog, then take the list to your public or college library.  
  • Fire Engineering http://www.pennwellbooks.com/video-rentals/  has made some of its videos available as online rentals.   
  • NFPA also makes some of their videos available for online rental. 2016 rates for 2-day rentals range from $50 to $200.  See http://www.nfpa.org/training/training-videos . 
  • Critical Information Network (formerly FETN and American Heat) now sell subscriptions for online access to their monthly programming.  Starting 2010, video is delivered online through secure logins and encrypted to prevent "saving";  the only access will be through subscribing departments.  (Programming delivered from 1986-2009 is available for loan in VHS and DVD formats from the Academy Library, some insurers.)   

 

 

HOT TIP:  When looking for free online video, the trick is finding good-quality, relevant material that can be used in training.  If you have reliable Internet access at your training site, linking to streaming video is one solution.   At sites with limited or no connectivity, you'll have to use saved or recorded video.    

  • The Academy Library includes links to some streaming media in its online catalog.   (When you search, select video as the medium type and put http into an "ANYWHERE" search box.)  You'll find that we index the Fire Engineering Training Minutes series, and other services. 
  • You probably already use Google Image search and Google Video.  To weed out the goofy stuff, go to Google Video and in Advanced Search specify you want only videos from sites ending in .gov or .org.  Or, tell it to return only videos of medium or long duration. 
  • If you're training members to use a specific peice of equipment or tool, thry the manufacturer's website.  

 

 

Try these other sites for online fire training video:

 

And don't forget about simulations! These help build tactical decision-making skills. With some, you could also create animated images to paste into PPTs:

Also, we have CDs of the 6 USFA simulations distributed in 2000.  Since then USFA has put them on their site for download.  

 

Backgrounder on podcasts: http://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/coffee-break/is/is_2009_5.pdf 

 


Downloading and ripping (unencrypted) DVDs and converting between file formats?  Try RealPlayer (http://Real.com)  and Handbrake  (http://handbrake.fr/) which are free and have easy-to-use presets.   

 


Want more on how to download & save Internet video?  Check out http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11327_7-6555399-1.html 

or click below for Dave Walsh's great tips on video downloading:

Download-save web videos-YouTube.doc

 

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