Georgia Smoke Diver Training Philosophy

Old training methodologies are proving ineffective for our new generation of firefighters.  While this new generation comes to us smarter and having been exposed to more information, they lack a specific skill set in being adaptable.  As the fire service continues to expand its mission it has diluted training in an attempt to turn every firefighter into an emergency service generalist instead of a specialist. Our training course was founded with the philosophy that we can provide condensed experience. We now know that when firefighters are faced with critical decisions we use a process call Recognition Primed Decision Making. Experience builds expertise and expertise leads to better decision making. Today’s firefighters are getting seriously injured and killed because of failures in decision making, because of a lack of situational awareness, or lack of orientation to the environment.  In order to become better at these skills we believe that a strong set of skills must be practiced in realistic scenarios that allow the student to adapt with changing conditions all while under extreme physical and mental stress.  These skills cannot be learned with PowerPoint presentations and checklists; they must be applied in the field.  The key to this process is a powerful group of instructors who are experts in their field and are extremely adaptable.  They are disciplined enough to know that it is better for the student to experiment and learn a solution instead of being told how to do it.  This philosophy proves valuable to both the student and the instructor and proves that the learning process in continual.

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