RUTLAND-Nineteen Stafford Technical Center Students have
mastered the US Government FEMA course entitled "Incident Command"
and have become nationally certified after successfully passing an
examination. Matt Trombley, a Pittsford resident and a Burlington
firefighter, taught the course to students in the Forestry and
Natural Resources Program and the Public Safety Services
Program.
Incident Command is a system that is used by the government, the
military, emergency service and such industry to deal with an
incident of any size, from a one-car crash to the destruction
caused by hurricanes. Incident Command provides a system where
agencies, large or small, can manage incidents most effectively. It
provides clear lines on control and command based on the principles
that there should only be one person in charge of each incident,
and that each supervisor should control no more than seven people
directly.
It further allocates personnel by function (for example, a drug
task force, which may include undercover officers, patrol officers,
prosecutors, technicians, and others) or a group, which includes
personnel of only 1 type (the undercover units). Students in the
public Safety Services Program's SADD/VTLSP Chapter routinely use
this system when they run a project.
The students successfully finishing the course are Keifer Metcalfe
of Proctor, Phil Taylor of Brandon and Tyler Bathalon of West
Rutland, all of whom are enrolled in the Forestry Program. As well
as Chelsea Fitzgerald of Mill River Union High School, Kody Baker,
Colton Benoit, Zachary Field and Porsche Lowell of Otter Valley
Union High School, Aaron Hildebrand of Rutland Area Christian
School, Megan Barber, Logan Clark, Kayla Temple, and Brian Raiche
of Rutland High School, Brian Ward, Brandon Ellis, Stephen
Marcoux, and Dylan Goad of Fair Haven Union High School, and Alison
DeRoy and Tyler Manning of Poultney High School.
This training is sponsored by the Vermont Fire Academy and will
qualify as required training for Stephen Marcoux, a member of the
Castleton Fire Department, and Tyler Manning, a member of the
Middletown Springs Volunteer Fire Department
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