by Todd Wigal | Sep 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
Fire Training Unlimited, our training company, started out like many instructor groups across the country who are passionate about sharing our trade with others. Two dudes, a garage, and some sketches of training props on a bar napkin. Before you know it, we are surrounding ourselves with other like-minded instructors and providing in-person instruction on various topics to multiple fire departments in the Pacific Northwest. Turns out there is a need for good instruction tailored to an agency’s specific needs, delivered without ego. We are always looking for other avenues to improve how organizations deliver their service to the community. For us, it comes from looking internally and improving our existing programs or by creating new services to meet their need. A few years ago, a Training Officer from one of our partner agencies asked if we had any recommendations on a system for tracking and delivering training. At the time we had nothing, as neither myself or Jason (my FTU Co-Founder) liked our own department’s tracking and delivery system. I had experience with several other platforms with other agencies I had been a part of in the past, but I certainly didn’t feel compelled to recommend any of them. This Training Officer also mentioned that he was paying a bunch of money to one of the larger vendors and was completely dissatisfied with the product. Bummer. Unless you want to use a combination of email, YouTube, Google Drive, Dropbox, or a flash drive, there wasn’t a great platform out there to do this efficiently. A few weeks later, a Training Officer from a different organization mentioned at one...
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