Firehouse Expo 2015

Firehouse Expo 2015 will feature more than 80 educational sessions, new preconference sessions, hands-on training, product debuts from leading fire service companies and many new special events.

This year's enhanced event is better than ever. In addition to the ever popular hands-on training and core educational conference sessions, we put together a variety of new and exciting opportunities for you to experience like —

Fast-paced Rip and Run tailboard training sessions specially design as hand-off training sessions that can be used to conduct a training session or drill immediately when you return to the station
Fire Family Life program, being presented in partnership with FirefighterWife.com, that will engage families in activities that are fun and informational.
Fire-Rescue Competition where teams will perform a relay rescue operation in a simulated mayday scenario involving a downed firefighter.
Moderated panel sessions right on the exhibit hall floor featuring some of the most notable names in the fire service sharing their viewpoints on some of the most critical topics facing today's fire service
plus much more

With all that is happening at Firehouse Expo we want you there. To make it easier than ever before to attend, Firehouse is extending special Discover Firehouse conference pricing discounts. Discover Firehouse provides registration savings that can be used to offset travel and lodging costs to attend Firehouse Expo…or to bring someone else from your department. Click here for special Discover Firehouse pricing.

Discover why you don't what to miss out on this year's event!

Speaker and Presenter Information

Firehouse is honored to announce that Colonel Royal P. Mortenson—USMC (ret.) and director at the Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI), University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana—will be the keynote speaker.

Col. Mortenson's keynote presentation—"Leadership Maxims for the Individual: 12 Maxims that Define Who You Are as a Leader and as a Follower"—will address the foundation of good leadership and followership, specifically looking at team preparedness and cohesion and how personal accountability and priorities determine success or failure.