Fire Forum: Responding to Scenes of Violence

Name: Fire Forum: Responding to Scenes of Violence
Start: 2025-12-10T08:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-12-10T17:00:00-06:00
Location: The Lodge at Ironwoods

Schedule

Wed Dec 10 2025 at 08:30 am to 05:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

The Lodge at Ironwoods | Stilwell, KS

Register at https://bit.ly/2025FFKC?
$35 fee includes lunch!
This regional training event provides attendees with the opportunity to learn from fire service trainers and thought leaders from across the American fire service. Offered in a limited-seating format, participants can interact and engage in the forum to understand how the messages relate to their individual or departmental needs. Tactics, training, and leadership: There's something to help everyone become more aggressively effective.
Responding to Scenes of Violence
Fires, EMS calls, hazardous material incidents, and technical rescue calls can be challenging in their own right. The introduction of violence and aggressive actors as critical factors creates an entirely new complexity that few are equipped or adequately trained to mitigate. This discussion will highlight actions for agencies and personnel to consider in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from scenes of violence. This will include perspectives from strategic, tactical, and task-level positions. Single-unit response through multi-agency mass casualty incident management will be examined. The training will span a wide range, from maintaining awareness and scene safety at a single-unit medical call to civil disturbance firefighting strategies and common-sense triage in response to an active shooter incident. Challenges to anticipate, pre-incident action planning strategies, and recommendations for training solutions, all designed to enhance response posture, will be presented. From the new hire to the senior leader, everyone will benefit from this training opportunity.
About the speaker: Steven C. Hamilton has been in the fire service since 1996. Currently, he is an Assistant Chief with the Fort Jackson (SC) Fire Department and a retired senior reserve deputy with the Richland County (SC) Sheriff's Department. He served as a firefighter in the United States Air Force and in volunteer departments in Texas and New York. Hamilton is a certified fire officer III, an instructor III, an arson investigator, an ALERRT instructor, and an NREMT-B. He is a technical committee member of the NFPA 3000 Standard for Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response (ASHER) Program. Hamilton is the author of the training DVD Responding to Scenes of Violence (Fire Engineering, 2015) and a regularly contributing author in Fire Engineering magazine. Hamilton is also an education advisory board member for the Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC) held annually in Indianapolis.