Beyond The Academy: Aggressive Search Operations   Due to increased fire prevention and decreased fire duty, our present day firefighters do not receive the on-the-job experience as our predecessors. Due to manpower concerns of many departments, primary searches may be overlooked because all hands are used to stretch attack lines. However, what if you are arriving and assigned to conduct a primary search? When is the last time you conducted a primary search? Do you have a plan? Where are the victims likely located? This new Brotherhood Instructors, LLC course will give you a systematic plan of attack for conducting SAFE, yet AGGRESSIVE searches in houses and apartment buildings. Discussion and scenarios will be discussed in a Powerpoint format followed by several rotations where class members will conduct operations as members of the "Inside Team" forcing a door and conducting a search. Members will also conduct Vent, Enter & Search functioning as members of an "outside team". Life-size or live victims will be used for realism. Despite what some instructors currently teach, Brotherhood Instructors, LLC refuses to consider victims trapped in fires equations or write-offs. While some victims cannot be saved, we will teach you ways that AGGRESSIVE searches can be conducted effectively and intelligently to provide those victims that CAN be saved the best chance of survival.