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NATIONAL FIRE ACADEMY COURSES

As a Contract Instructor, I am eligible to teach the following National Fire Academy Courses:

Interviewing-Interrogation Techniques and Courtroom Testimony

Management for Arson Prevention and Control

Fire Cause Determination for Company Officers

Initial Fire Investigation

Arson Detection for the First Responder

Courtroom Preparation and Testimony for First Responders

Incident Safety Officer

FIRE SERVICE PROGRAMS

I have also developed and presented the following programs at national, regional, state, and local conferences and seminars:

Turning Safety into Fire Service Tradition

Response to Violent Incidents: A Case Study

Fire Service Training (Keynote Presentation)

Firefighters & Flashover

Dirty Little Secret of the Fire Service: Firefighter Arsonists

The Media Is On Scene, Now What?

Fire Officer Development for the New Millennium

Developing & Communicating the Mission of Your Department

Personnel Evaluations, Are We Being Effective?

Marketing Your Fire Department, Getting Back to Basics

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

I have also had the following articles published in national fire service trade journals:

"Creating a Tradition of Safety", Fire Engineering, Volume 160, Number 7 (July 2007), PP. 111-120.

"Gunfire at Christmas Morning Structure Fire", Firehouse, Volume 29, Issue 4 (April 2004), pp. 120-122.

"Arresting the Firefighter Arson Problem", The Voice, Volume 31, Issue 3 (March 2002), pp. 7-8.

"Mission Statement Storyteller", Fire Chief, Volume 46, Number 1 (January 2002), pp. 62-65.

"Marketing Your Fire Department, Putting the Pieces Together", American Fire Journal, Volume 52, Number 10 (October 2000), pp. 16-19.

"Personnel Evaluations, Are We Being Effective?", Fire Chief, Volume 40, Number 8 (August 1996), pp. 102-106.

"Fresh Heirs", Fire Chief, Volume 38, Number 9 (September 1994), pp. 50-54.

"The Incident Command System and it's Application to Fire Investigations", Firehouse, Volume 19, Number 6 (June 1994), pp. 92-94.

"Use of Outside Funding and Resources in Fire Investigation Programs", Fire and Arson Investigator, Volume 42, Number 4 (June 1992), pp. 50-57.

"Investigators on the First Alarm", Fire Command, Volume 56, Number 8 (August 1989), p. 30.

"The First Alarm Response...What About the Fire/Arson Investigator?", New Mexico Chapter I.A.A.I. Magazine, Volume 2, Number 3 (Fall 1988), pp. 11-15.

"The Fatal Fire: What To Do Before The Investigators Arrive", Fire Command, Volume 54, Number 5 (May 1987), p.30.

Contact Information

If you would be interested in having me speak at your function, I can be contacted at:

Thomas Aurnhammer, EFO, IAAI-CFI® - Post Office Box 621 - Ignacio, CO 81137-0621 - (970) 563-9575 - aurnhammert@lospinosfire.org