2026 Classes

  • This class will cover primary search techniques for residential house fires. Focusing on not only fostering skills, and breaking bad habits, but learning how to navigate the interior with limited or no visibility. This class focuses on building FF operational confidence, as well as showing how to be in the best possible position to enhance operational effectiveness.

    This class is a LIVE FIRE ATMOSPHERE and requires the participant to sign a liability waiver to participate.

    Full Gear, SCBA, and extra air bottle required.

  • Obstetric emergencies are high-risk, emotionally charged, and often unpredictable. Whether you're responding as part of a rural volunteer crew, a suburban paid EMS agency, or a busy fire-based system, the responsibility to manage these rare but critical calls falls on all of us. This session goes beyond the basics to prepare EMS providers at both the BLS and ALS level to confidently assess and manage advanced OB complications in the prehospital setting.

    Through real-world examples and interactive discussion, we'll explore how to assess and respond to advanced OB complications such as preterm labor, placental abruption, prolapsed cord, pre-eclampsia, breech presentations, and postpartum hemorrhage. You'll gain the tools to make confident decisions using both BLS and ALS protocols, sharpen your critical thinking, and build strategies for calm, compassionate care in chaotic situations. Whether you’re the only responder on scene or part of a team, this class will help you be ready when the call doesn't go by the book.

    EMS CE Elligible

  • This class will cover the basics of CBRN-E, Weapons of Mass destruction and HAZMAT for EMS providers.

    EMS CE Elligible

  • This presentation explores the expanding and increasingly vital role of non-firefighter Emergency Medical Services (EMS) professionals—specifically Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs)—within fireground operations. As the dynamics of emergency response continue to evolve, EMTs are stepping beyond their traditional medical duties to take on new responsibilities that enhance fireground efficiency, safety, and coordination.

    The session outlines how EMTs are now actively engaging in fireground strategy, communication, and support efforts alongside firefighting personnel. Emphasis is placed on cross-functional knowledge, collaboration, and proactive safety practices.

    Topics Covered Include:

    1. Fireground Fundamentals: Introduction to essential fire service terms, equipment, apparatus, hose lines, alarm levels, and basics of building construction relevant to fireground scenarios.

    2. Ambulance Response and Scene Placement: Best practices for ambulance arrival, positioning, and operational readiness during fire incidents to ensure efficient medical support without obstructing firefighting operations. After the presentation, attendees will understand the best placement and position for the ambulance during a fire and how they can assist the fire engineer with their response.

    3. EMT Size-Up and 360° Assessment: Techniques for EMTs to conduct initial scene assessments (size-up) and a 360-degree evaluation to identify hazards, resource needs, and support situational awareness. After the presentation, attendees will be able to complete a basic size-up when they arrive at a reported fire and what they can look and report to the engine, if they are safely able to compete a 360 of the fire building.

    4. Fireground Activities and Safety: A comprehensive overview of typical fireground tasks, EMT support roles, and critical safety protocols to protect both EMS and fire personnel.

    5. Firefighter Decontamination (Decon) and Rehabilitation (Rehab): Procedures for setting up and implementing effective Decon and Rehab stations to ensure firefighter health and recovery during and after fireground operations.

    This presentation underscores the necessity of integrated response strategies, mutual understanding, and expanded training to empower EMTs as essential assets in modern fireground environments.

    EMS CE Elligible

  • Trauma care is never one-size-fits-all—especially when managing bariatric patients. This session explores the complex intersection of trauma and morbid obesity, a growing challenge in prehospital medicine. EMS providers must recognize the unique anatomical and physiological considerations, altered injury patterns, and increased morbidity and mortality that accompany this patient population.

    Participants will examine current research, evidence-based practices, and operational considerations involved in the assessment, extrication, and treatment of critically injured bariatric patients. The session emphasizes clinical insight, provider safety, and system-level preparedness to improve outcomes and reduce risk in high-acuity bariatric trauma calls.

    EMS CE Elligible

  • In rural and volunteer EMS systems, BLS providers often serve as the highest level of care for extended periods. When ALS is 30 minutes away—or more—your actions matter most. This session delivers practical strategies to help stabilize critical patients, manage limited resources, and lead with confidence until help arrives. Real-world scenarios and focused discussion will prepare you to hold the line when you’re the only one there to do it.

    EMS CE Elligible

  • The old saying “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail” is a fact of life that applies in every aspect. It is especially true when it comes to emergency response. This class will examine response planning considerations for fire departments with a heavy focus on the department training program. While designed for small volunteer departments, all departments regardless of size or status will benefit from the concepts discussed in class. Participants will explore ways to keep their training relevant and mission focused while keeping their members engaged and excited.

  • No matter your time on the job or rank, you will walk away from a Leadership From The Bottom Up class fired up to be a rockstar you were meant to be and help drive positive change in yourself, your crew, and your organization! This no-nonsense candid conversation discusses real issues plaguing fire departments along with tactics on how to solve them. But wait! That’s not all, as a bonus you will also learn how to be a better boss!

    Warning: This is not your typical leadership class or for the faint of heart. This class is unfiltered, unapologetic, and unforgettable!

  • The profession of a first responder takes a toll on all of us over time. We train ourselves to be physically ready to handle whatever we are called for but have no way to do the same for our mental resiliency. Sometimes the injuries we suffer are not external and obvious; rather they can be hidden away from friends and family. We can, and do, accumulate mental and emotional injuries, whether it be one major call or several over years. This is a street-level, everyday fireman approach to being a shoulder to lean on or a hand up for one another when one of us is dealing with a mental mayday.

  • What does the perfect performance look like and how do we get there? Our citizens and peers deserve our best when we show up to their emergency. Together we will look at how to turn an improv performance into a masterpiece.

  • The fireground is getting younger—and faster—every year. With a new generation of firefighters stepping into action, and seasoned members striving to stay sharp, how are we preparing both groups to succeed? Whether you're career or volunteer, one truth remains: the fire doesn’t care who you are. The only difference is when you arrive in the timeline.

    FIR5T: Controlling the Fireground is designed to bridge that gap.

    Based on real-world experience from both a mid-sized career department and a small volunteer company, this class delivers the tools, mindset, and understanding every firefighter needs—but rarely gets early enough in their career. It’s the class I wish I had on day one.

    At the heart of the fire service is one simple truth: we exist to understand and control fire. Yet, in most certification programs, fire dynamics gets a fraction of the time it deserves. That’s a problem. Because without a deep understanding of fire behavior, our tactics are just guesses—and our control of the fireground is compromised.

    This class simplifies the science and puts the power back in the hands of firefighters. You'll learn how to dissect fire behavior in real time, make proactive decisions, and take control of your environment—rather than reacting to chaos. FIR5T focuses on the critical first five minutes of the incident—those decisive moments that set the tone for the next thirty.

  • As firemen, we have a hard focus on being proactive on locating and removing victims, but we lose sight of the other half of the equation that gets victims back home to their families. The post rescue resuscitation. This course will equip firefighters and paramedics alike with a better understanding of why we use drags instead of carries, door control during the search, choosing routes for victim removal, and how all of these decisions can impact survival.

    Students will then progress to learning from experience and evidence based practice on working as a team to resuscitate victims, with the rescuing FF’s and EMS crew working as one unit to deliver the best care possible.

    This class is an interactive experience built for both firefighters & EMS personnel.

    EMS CE Elligible

  • RF-DASH uses a train-the-trainer approach that equips trainees with knowledge of the farming environment, farm safety, and agricultural emergency prevention strategies. The RF-DASH curriculum is based around agricultural emergency prevention and preparedness rather than rescue and response.

    There are five core modules:

    1. Introduction to Agricultural Emergencies: Familiarizes first responders with modern agriculture and raises awareness about agricultural hazards.

    2. Pre-Planning and Mapping Farms: Discusses the importance of pre-planning and how to use pre-planning tools.

    3. Farm Hazard Analysis: Explains how to evaluate, prioritize, and mitigate farm hazards.

    4. Farm First Aid: Demonstrates how first responders can teach farm-specific first aid to farm/ranch families, employees, and others.

    5. Farm Community Outreach: Describes several methods that first responders can use to build trust and connections with members of the agricultural community.

    These modules can contribute to alignment with National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards, specifically NFPA 1300 on community risk assessment and reduction and NFPA 1670 on technical search and rescue training.

    This class will involve a combination of in-classroom and hands-on learning. The morning will spent on the modules listed above and in the afternoon trainees practice applying pre-planning and hazard analysis at a local farm.

    Please bring/wear comfortable, Nebraska weather in February appropriate clothing for the afternoon session.

  • 2 Classes, 1 Unique Experience

    Everything’s a Fire:

    Turn almost every call and almost all your daily chores and projects into fires and watch your actual fireground communications, productivity and tactics succeed like you always wished they would.

    It’s the Little Things:

    What you carry with you and on you can elevate or drag down your performance on the fireground. We will look at the 'Tried and True", District Specific, and Innovative items, gadgets and gizmos.

    Please bring your own gadgets, gizmos, etc. with you to class to show others what you find works well.

  • In today’s world, there is no question that all first responders—paid or volunteer—must be prepared to respond to active shooter and hostile events (ASHE). These incidents can happen anywhere, at any time, and often unfold rapidly, requiring a coordinated, informed response from all emergency services. This presentation provides practical, no-fluff guidance specifically tailored for fire departments that may not have the resources for extended ASHE training.

    Attendees will receive essential information that empowers them to make informed decisions when responding to these high-risk, dynamic events. The course focuses on understanding the firefighter’s role within the incident command system, integrating effectively with law enforcement and EMS, and establishing and managing a Level II staging area.

    Grounded in lessons learned from real-world after-action reports, FBI studies, NFPA 3000, and Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM) training, the lecture will cover critical topics including ASHE terminology, incident statistics, response procedures, apparatus placement, and radio communications.

    Designed with respect for limited time and resources, this presentation delivers actionable insights to help first responders initiate the conversation within their departments and improve preparedness. The ultimate goal is for attendees to return to their stations equipped to engage in planning, coordination, and future training—because when an ASHE incident occurs, every responder must know their role and be ready to act.

  • Realistic Staffing calls for Realistic Training and Expectations on todays fire ground. We will look at how to accomplish the initial tactical objectives of Rescue, Search, Extinguishment and Exposure Protection plus some extras with the staffing you realistically have.

    This class is a Hands-On Physical Atmosphere and requires the participant to sign a liability waiver to participate.

    Full Gear, SCBA, and extra air bottle required.

  • Turn your training into something they'll remember-and actually use.

    This class is your playbook for designing high-impact, hands-on training that hits the mark. We'll dive into setting clear objectives, crafting your own coaching philosophy, and getting the most out of limited time, people and resources. Led by two seasoned instructors with over 40 years of combined experience in public safety, collegiate athletics, and instructing in both career and volunteer fire departments, this session blends real-world fireground insight with proven coaching strategies.

    Whether you're building a program from scratch or refining your current approach, this class with sharpen your edge.

  • In a world that is rapidly evolving and immersing us in AI and virtual reality everywhere we go, Les Lukert TV brings you the latest in reality TV. LIVE EMS is a HOT class that goes one step further than just letting you watch the action unfold: You, the audience, will be partnered with other audience members to actually run the calls during each episode. You get to interact with the patient and bystanders and you get to make all the decisions, but you better bring your “big boy/girl britches” because these streets are hosted by David and Denell and are decidedly “Scene NOT Safe!”

    NSFSI calls LIVE EMS “a comical pairing of insanity and education.” TV Guide recommends you “bring clothes that you can get dirty and leave the popcorn at home because it will just end up getting smashed,” while Siskel and Ebert give this audience involved production “two thumbs up yours…. This critical thinking and choose your own adventure experience for adults is the best thing since the ridiculous plot twists of Grey’s Anatomy!” Rotten Tomatoes has dubbed LIVE EMS as “a Gallagher meets emergency medicine experience,” while your hosts describe this show as “as essential to your EMS education as Uncrustables in the EMS room.”

    Join David Mellen and Denell Rhinehart for a once-in-a-lifetime viewing experience that involves you in some of the most unique and thought-provoking EMS calls pulled from the experiences of your two hosts…. And maybe some things nobody on the planet could dream up. Hands-on and immersive, this class will put you in the Ambulance Driver’s seat while the rest of the audience get’s to “side-seat drive” after the fact… just like the QA/QI person at your service. Lights, sirens, ACTION! (And no, really… bring extra clothes!)

    This class is a Hands-On Physical Atmosphere and requires the participant to sign a liability waiver to participate.

    Comfortable (ready for Nebraska weather in February) clothing highly encouraged, and please bring extra clothes! You WILL be out in the elements.

    EMS CE Elligible

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