NIMS 300 & 400 Classes

I'm trying to find out if there are any NIMS 300 & 400 classes that are going to be held around the Louisiana/Texas area any time soon. Here in Louisiana we used to have several classes held yearly that were free to attend. Now we can't seem to find any, and when they are held (privately) it costs out the wahzoo to register for them. If anyone has any info I would (and my department) greatly appreciate it. Trying to get 100% NIMS compliant. Thanks again.
-Logue CIFD

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Permalink Reply by Oldman on February 24, 2009 at 12:01pm
Permalink Reply by Fireyladd - Retired Chief Sharp on February 24, 2009 at 12:30pm
This seems to be the same issue across the country. Sad when you put it into perspective. Most of us were using ICS since its beginnings in the late 60's. Federal Gov decides lets give it a new name and require everyone to learn new acronyms and tie it to federal funding. What a novel idea. Be interesting to see if indeed he Federal Gov has even met this requirement and how many.
Permalink Reply by Antonio A on February 24, 2009 at 1:26pm
It is on your government website, see the following link

http://www.ohsep.louisiana.gov/Training/

If you are in state it should not cost you anything
Permalink Reply by jonathan on February 24, 2009 at 1:48pm
heres a queston to this day i have never understood why they require us to take nims i mean whats the point in it
Permalink Reply by John on February 24, 2009 at 1:53pm
Mkaes you wonder if they are NIMS compliant.
Permalink Reply by Antonio A on February 24, 2009 at 1:57pm
The intent of NIMS is that everyone in an incident is on the same page, while 100 and 200 is very basic and DUUHHH kind of stuff, there are a lot of other things that NIMS brings to the table, to me, it all made more sense once I took 300 and 400 because the exercises involve large scale incidents and not just every day fire incidents. It shows how people from different organizations and departments can work with more ease if they are all on the same page and terminology. In our 300 and 400 class we ended up organizing a Katrina size incident from scratch.
I agree it is a bit much when you think of a house fire or a medical emergency but when the incident becomes town, city and state wide and involves people from across the country it is good to have everyone use the same language and terms so they know what their job, expectations and report structures are.
Last but not least I must say, from a teachers perspective 100, 200 and 700 are horrible dry and boring and it really does not help that the people in class don't really want to be there.
Permalink Reply by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on February 24, 2009 at 2:07pm
Does this mean that we will all be calling a water truck a tender and an airplane that carry's and drops water a tanker? Standardized ICS terminology vs. NIMS... West coast vs. East coast... Is this possible?
Permalink Reply by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on February 24, 2009 at 2:09pm
ahhh young Caleb, but does the terminology jive?
Permalink Reply by Jonathan on February 25, 2009 at 3:31pm
Thanks everyone for the quick responses. The links were a great help.
-Logue
Permalink Reply by nic maquet on March 11, 2009 at 9:39pm
look on the fema website you can take them online free and even print your certificate out
Permalink Reply by Chad Furr on March 11, 2009 at 9:45pm
I took all of mine online and was alot easier that way I belive. go at your own pace and take all the notes you want. Or in my case print it and hilight it . Good luck

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