Office of the Fire Marshall

The Office of the Fire Marshall identifies the required courses and curriculum in support of the Nunavut Fire Training Strategy.  The MTO manages the budgets for these courses, communicates the information to the communities, registers the participants, and handles all course logistics.

This five day course is designed to provide Fire Officers or potential Officers with the necessary skills to organize and manage fire ground operations under emergency conditions. This course will cover the basics of Incident Command from pre-planning through the incident to incident debriefing . Size-up, planning, communications, command post and other key elements of running an emergency scene will be covered.

This 4-day course is designed to provide skills and teaching techniques fro those who will be instructing fire fighting courses.  Enabling objectives include the role of the instructor, methods of instruction, lesson planning, objectives, learning environment, instructional techniques, and principles of learning.  The primary focus is to allow candidates to effectively teach a fire fighting class with pre-assigned curriculum.

This is a 6 day course based on the IFSTA Fire Investigator Curriculum.  There will be a requirement for students to prepare two separate investigation reports.  Fire Investigation meets the requirements of NFPA 1033.

This course will outline the curriculum development and give general guidelines for planning successful presentations. It will familiarize you with information on what motivates people to learn and how people learn differently.

This course is Part 1 of the 2 part 1002 Pumper Operations Course; and includes routine tests and routine fire apparatus maintenance and documentation.  This course teaches the student how to safely operate fire department apparatus during emergency and non emergency situations.

These "entry" level training courses deal with safety and basic firefighting skills and are delivered in the communities at regular intervals.

This course is the first level in the firefighting practices program. It provides the skills necessary to effectively perform the functions of a firefighter and to upgrade and re-align those skills with the changing times.

The intention of this course is to protect firefighters from undue risk while preventing and fighting fires in their communities.

This course is about researching life safety (fire/falls/burns/crashes) problems in a community.  Students learn how to budget, find funding, create a course (or courses), market, create a community coalition, write reports, create an evaluation instrument, and much more.