Advanced Technician Firefighter (40 hours)

As recommended by the IL OSFM, the following textbook is required for NIPSTA's Advanced Firefighter Technician course. As such, the material in this textbook supports skills and terms used in NIPSTA's Advanced Firefighter Technician course . Students are encouraged to obtain a copy of this textbook for reference and exam prep:

• Jones & Bartlett "Firefighter Skills and Hazardous Materials Response”, 5th edition.

  •  ISBN: 9781284283051

New Accounts

Fire Departments or municipalities need to set up an account prior to registering students for NIPSTA’s Basic Operations Firefighter program. Account set up is simple and quick.  Please visit our Account Set-up and Registration page, found under the About NIPSTA menu. 

Registration Deadline

The deadline for registration is one (1) week prior to the start of the program. If space is available, last minute requests may be accommodated by contacting firetraining2@nipsta.org

If you have an employee name, you may proceed to the registration page, add the new student name to your department account roster, select the appropriate academy session, select the student(s), then proceed to the check-out page. If you have not set up an account for your department, you must do so first by clicking on the "Log-in/Create Account" button found at the center/left of the page.

Confirmation

You will receive a confirmation invoice or receipt immediately after completing the registration process. Confirmed registrations will be added to the course roster in chronological order. A maximum of thirty-two (32) candidates will be enrolled; additional registrations will be assigned to a waiting list in the order received. 

Reserving Spots

For fire departments that are in the process of hiring a new employee, and do not have a name and date of birth at the time of registrations, please use the following procedure:

1) Choose the appropriate fire academy session.

2) You will need to establish a new member account on your department roster for each position held by choosing "Add Account Member" at the bottom of the "Account Members" list visible to the right.

3) Under First Name -  enter TBD. If you are reserving more than one spot enter TBD1, TBD2, etc.

4) Under Last Name - enter your fire department name.

5) Save new account member(s).

6) Choose the new account member(s) you wish to enroll and add them to your "cart". 

7) Follow the prompts, proceed to "checkout", and complete your transaction.

Only paid TBDs can be confirmed. In the event that a session reaches max enrollment, and a waiting list is established, unpaid TBDs will be moved to the waiting list. This to accommodate departments with employee info (name & DOB). Maximum enrollment for NIPSTA’s BOF academy is 32.

Substitutions 

Departments may substitute for a confirmed candidate by editing their member account roster, or emailing Administrative Manager, Claudia Woods, at  cwoods@nipsta.org. 

Cancelations 

A department may cancel a confirmed reservation at any time for any reason prior to the start of a session. Cancellations after the start of a session and within one week of the start date will result in a 75% refund of the paid tuition. Cancellations within 7-14 days will result in a 50% refund. All cancellations after 14 days from the start date will NOT be refunded.