Truck Academy
Truck Academy
If you’re searching for the ultimate 5-day Firetown Truck Academy led by
Chief Ed Hadfield and our team of expert instructors, you’ve come to the right place. Our training calendar for 2025 is nearly full, dates beyond that are now open, but spots are filling up quickly.
This is a perfect opportunity to receive customized training specifically designed for your organization, offering the highest level of instruction available.
Don’t miss out on the chance to elevate your Truck skills and the competencies of your team. Secure your spot on the training calendar today!
Truck Academy
Overview:
Our Truck Academy is an immersive, multi‑day program built to sharpen core truck company skills through high‑expectation, scenario‑driven training. Designed for firefighters who want disciplined, accountable, and coordinated truck work, this academy delivers the reps and realism needed to perform with confidence on the fireground.
Over five intensive days, firefighters train in the full spectrum of truck operations, including Ventilation, Forcible Entry, Search and RIC, ground ladders, equipment knowledge, maintenance, and more. Led by experienced instructors, this progressive program builds competence, speed, and decision‑making under pressure—developing firefighters who can execute with precision when it matters most
Course Highlights
- Ventilation Techniques: Deep dive into the dynamics of vertical ventilation with real‑world cutting on props and/or acquired structures. Crews will also run horizontal ventilation tactics to understand when, why, and how to move air with purpose.
- Forcible Entry: Hands‑on reps with passive entry, through‑the‑lock, mechanical, and conventional techniques—built for the doors, gates, and barriers you actually face on the street.
- Search and RIC Operations: Train on Oriented, Targeted, Focused, and T‑LAS search methods to sharpen speed, discipline, and survivability in zero‑visibility environments.
- Ladder Operations: Go beyond academy basics with street‑smart ladder placement, deployment, and usage that supports real truck work under fireground conditions.
- Coordinated Operations: Strengthen timing and teamwork with engine companies to keep ventilation, entry, and suppression moving as one unified push.
- Leadership & Command Integration: Build leadership instincts and learn how to plug truck operations cleanly into incident command for tighter, safer, more effective scenes.
Who Should Attend
The Truck Academy is designed for:
- Firefighters who want to sharpen their truck‑company skillset and bring more impact, speed, and confidence to the fireground.
- Truck company officers looking to tighten their leadership, sharpen decision‑making, and get their crews operating as a disciplined unit when the pressure spikes.
- Command staff aiming to boost coordination between engine and truck companies and bring order, timing, and efficiency to complex fireground operations.
Why Choose This Course
Fireground operations move fast, and truck companies are the ones who keep the scene alive—opening it up, making it safer, and giving suppression and rescue a fighting chance. The Firetown Truck Academy builds the skills, experience, and confidence your crews need to handle these high‑stakes tasks with speed, precision, and control.
By the end of this academy, participants will:
- Master core truck company operations including ladder placement, ventilation, and forcible entry.
- Tighten communication and team coordination to operate cleanly and effectively under pressure.
- Develop leadership instincts that drive smarter, faster decision‑making on the fireground.
- Integrate seamlessly with engine companies and command, ensuring smooth, coordinated operations from curb to interior.
Training Benefits
- Hands‑on, realistic evolutions that mirror true fireground conditions.
- Advanced ventilation and forcible entry practices taught with street‑smart technique and real‑world application.
- Expanded skills in ladder work, and search tactics to round out a complete truck‑company toolbox.
- Leadership development that prepares firefighters and officers to guide a truck company through complex, fast‑moving operations.
- **Stronger communication—verbal and non‑verbal—**for clear, decisive coordination in high‑stress environments.
Course Structure
- Classroom Foundations: Truck company operations, safety, and leadership built from a street‑smart perspective—giving firefighters the why behind the work before they hit the drill ground.
- Real‑World Skill Reps: Hands‑on training focused on ladder placement, ventilation, and forcible entry, and search techniques and principles using realistic setups that mirror the conditions you’ll face on the street.
- Scenario‑Based Coordination Drills: Full‑scale evolutions that force crews to communicate, time their actions, and coordinate truck company functions under true fireground pressure.
Why Choose Brass Shamrock Training for Truck Academy?
At Brass Shamrock Training, our Truck Academy sets the bar for what real truck work should look like. Our instructors bring decades of fireground experience, street‑tested skills, and the decision‑making instincts that only come from doing the job under pressure. Every evolution is built around real‑world scenarios, giving your crew the reps, confidence, and trust they need to operate at peak performance. This academy equips firefighters to execute every truck company function—safely, efficiently, and with the precision the fireground demands.