The U.S. Fire Administration has released two mayday courses — Calling the Mayday: Hands-On Training for Firefighters and Firefighter Safety: Calling the Mayday — on a single CD-ROM.

The two courses can be incorporated into Firefighter I and II curricula, or used as in-service training for experienced firefighters. The CD-ROM is available to all fire departments and state fire training academies and can be requested through the USFA’s Publications Center.

Calling the Mayday: Hands-On Training for Firefighters (H134) is an eight-hour course. The CD-ROM includes instructor’s manual, job performance requirements, and skills-check forms to ensure that students can successfully perform the psychomotor components of the mayday doctrine.

The disk also contains the Firefighter Safety: Calling the Mayday (Q133) course, which includes a 40-minute video presentation covering the cognitive and affricative mayday doctrine needed by all firefighters. Students must pass written criteria testing with 100% accuracy to receive certificates.

Authorities having jurisdiction, fire chiefs or department training officers, must certify that students have successfully passed all testing elements, and submit students’ applications (FEMA Form 75-5) to the NFA Admissions Office. NFA Certificates for H134 and Q133 will be sent to the students’ organizations for distribution to graduates.

To obtain a copy of the new training CD-ROM, submit a written request on department or organizational letterhead and signed by a fire chief or training officer to USFA Publications, Building I, Room 120, 16825 S. Seton Ave., Emmitsburg, MD 21727 or fax the letter of request to 301-447-1213.