Welcome to the Ontario Association of Fire Training Officers Website.

The Ontario Association of Fire Training Officers (OAFTO) serves to promote the education and training of fire service instructors and training officers in Ontario, Canada.

Fire service instructors and training officers are responsible for the professional development of fire recruits, firefighters, officers, and many other initiatives in Ontario's fire service. OAFTO members provide a network for sharing ideas and resources among departments across Ontario and Canada.

Announcements:

Attention members! The next meeting of the Ontario Association of Fire Training Officers is January 21, 2010 at Kingston Fire & Rescue, 500 O'Connor Drive, Kingston, Ontario at 10:00h. We will see you there!

2010 HOT Training Registration is Now Available!

The City of Woodstock is pleased to welcome Brian Arnold to the team as Fire Training Officer! Click here for more information.

Nominations for the OAFTO Executive are now open. For current nominations, please click here.

WANTED: YOUR PHOTOS! Members, if you have photos of your fire training exercises or anything relating, please send them to Alan Brody by clicking here. Please note, there is a chance that these photos may be used, at least in part, on the website or OAFTO publications, so only send photos that you are comfortable with seeing published.

Fire Dangers May Be Hidden Beneath Your Feet At Home - A video released by WISN.com, Channel 12 in Milwaukee, on the danger posed by certain wooden I-joists in homes to firefighters. Keep yourselves and each other safe - check out this video.

News:

The Hybrid Car Technology & Extrication Certification Course is FULL. Please do not send any more registrations for that course!

View the latest job opportunities in the OAFTO Job Postings section!
OAFTO September 2009 Meeting Minutes are available here

OAFTO May 2009 Meeting Minutes are available here

OAFTO January 2009 Meeting Minutes are available here

OAFTO September 2008 Meeting Minutes are available here

OAFTO April 2008 Meeting Minutes are available here

Upcoming Events:

21st Century Incident Command Training - Supporting Safe and Effective ICs in Your Organization: Mississauga Fire and Emergency Services in Conjunction with Medteq Solutions invite members from your department to attend a two day symposium covering best practices in training for incident command. By attending and implementing the incident command information you can expect to reduce risk to firefighters, improve incident outcomes and consistently apply your Incident Command policies or guidelines. Join other Fire Service organizations in their pursuit of improved Incident Command! To register visit: http://www.regonline.ca/ICSsymposium. Early bird registration before September 29th- $275.- After $295. Registration deadline is October 9, 2009.

To download a flyer for this event, click here.