Previous Events
Past Clients / Venues
- The Fire Department’s Instructor Conference (FDIC) Indianapolis, IN (2011-2019)
- Classroom (2011, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018)
- Pre-Classroom Workshop (2012,2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019)
- Delaware State Fire School (DE) (2013)
- MUFRTI Winter Fire School (MO) (2012, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2019)
- St. Louis County Central Core (MO) (2014)
- Addison Fire Protection District (Chicago, IL) (2014)
- Minnesota State Fire Department Assoc. (MN) (2014)
- ISFSI Fall Conference (Columbus, OH) (2014)
- County of Westchester (NY) (2015)
- Sunrise Beach Fire Protection District (MO) (2015)
- Stafford Fire Department (Houston, TX) (2015)
- Hibbing Fire Department (MN) (2015)
- Virginia Fire Department (MN) (2015)
- Cloquet Fire Department (MN) (2015)
- Oswego Fire Protection District (Chicago, IL) (2015)
- MOIAAI Summer Training Seminar (MO) (2015)
- Coon Rapids Fire Department (MN) (2016)
- Lt. Andy Fredericks Memorial Seminar (Elmsford, NY) (2017)
- Siloam Springs Fire Department (AR) (2017)
- Ramsey Fire Chief’s Association (MN) (2019)
- Oklahoma State Fire School (OK) (2019)
- Rogers Fire Department (AR) (2019)
WEbcasts/Blog Talk Radio
- FE Blog Talk Radio “The PJ Norwood Show” (2013,2014)
- FE Blog Talk Radio “Small Town Tools and Tactics” (Co-host) (2014)
- FE Blog Talk Radio “The Chief’s Trumpet” (2014)
- FE Webcast (2015)
- FE Blog Talk Radio “The Larry Conley Show” (2017)
Published Contributions / Reference Material
- Suburban Fire Tactics (2013) Fire Engineering Books & Videos/PennWell Publishing (Textbook)
- Suburban Fire Tactics from The Right Seat (2016) Fire Engineering Books & Videos/PennWell Publishing (Video)
- “Prioritizing Functions and Developing Preferred Operating Methods” (Fire Engineering, March 2011)
- “Tactical Rescue Decision Making” (Fire Engineering, March 2012)
- “Flipping the Coin: Fireground Decision Making for Company Officers” (FireEngineering.com, April 2013)
- “Second-Arriving Company: The Facilitator” (Fire Engineering, October 2013)
- “Effective vs. Efficient: A lesson in Creative Fire Tactics” (FireOpsOnline.com 2013)
- “Leading Today’s Fire Service Youth: Using History to Understand Motivation” (Fire Engineering, July 2015) (Co-author with Frank Viscuso)
- “Suburban Fire Tactics: Developing Functional SOGs” (Fire Engineering, April 2016)
- “Suburban Fire Tactics: Accounting for Truck Functions in a Non-Truck World” (FireEngineering.com, November 2018)
Chief Jim Silvernail, then a captain for Metro West Fire Protection District, premiered
Suburban Fire Tactics at the 2011 Fire Department Instructor Conference (FDIC) in Indianapolis, IN on Friday, March 25, 2011. This classroom session highlighted strategic principles related to the suburban fire fighting setting. Attendees were motivated to develop and establish effective preferred operating methods for structural firefighting. Chief Silvernail provided a glimpse of “how the rest of the country” is dealing with understaffing and adaptive strategic practices to establish consistent operations.
Suburban Fire Tactics 