CFI Continuing Education Credits • 1The fire service is pressed with an urgency of electrification of the consumer market. This one-hour program will dive into the issues affecting the Fire Service and how the Fire Chief can be prepared. This includes the safety of response personnel, review of codes/standards affecting batteries including storage, manufacture, EV in fixed buildings, and how ESS/Mobility batteries affect the built environment
The problem- Consumer electronics
- Electric Vehicles
- Battery Storage (ESS)
- Battery storage/manufacture EV, where are the codes
- Case study on EV
Response priorities- Review pre-plan needs and overview
- Discussion on location of fixed vs mobile
- Building/Sprinkler Requirements
- Update on where codes standards are going
- Personal protective equipment and SCBA
- Extinguishment or non-extinguishment
- Towing and post incident priorities
Fire Chief Priorities- Review on needs with building / code officials
- Review battery/code updates from 2015-20224 fire codes (Include NFPA 855 and IFC 2024 or NFPA 2024)
- Discussion with needs on various response items and need to include local elected officials
- Review actions steps for the fire service
