Training fire service personnel using live burns, practice drills, and classroom lectures has long been the standard for teaching safe and effective fireground operations. However, new media and interactive technologies are now earning a respected place in the fire service training world; these technologies have the advantage of being distributed at low or no cost over the Internet and offer members exciting new ways to train. One example of this training distributed by technology is a new online module/offline DVD combination product entitled, "The First Responder's Role in Fire Investigation." This reality-based method for presenting teaching content in an incident context allows the viewer to make the connection between the cognitive knowledge necessary for the task and the physical act of actually performing it.
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