Built from 39 years in the fire service, not a slide template.

Rules of Air Management and command-level fire behavior training, built from 39 years in the fire service and fourteen years running a large metro training division. This isn't theory delivered from a slide deck — it's a system your crews will actually carry onto the fireground, taught by someone who's made the call at command level.

• Half or full-day on-site workshops for a single department
• Live-fire and prop-based evolutions where the host facility supports it
• Multi-day academy blocks for recruit classes

Full recruit academy curricula and continuing education programs, designed to state and national certification standards. This work goes back to the Arkansas Fire Training Academy, where Joseph first wrote curriculum, through fourteen years building and running a full training division at Overland Park.

• Single course/module design
• Full recruit academy curriculum, aligned to state and NFPA standards
• Ongoing CE program design with annual refresh

Ground-up training facility design and prop consulting, backed by deep supplier relationships built over a career. From first concept sketch through construction oversight, with an eye for what actually holds up to repeated live training use.

• Site visits and planning sessions
• Prop selection and supplier coordination
• Concept-through-construction consulting

Not every department needs — or can afford — a fully custom academy build. This service puts proven, ready-to-deploy training content directly in your hands: individual CE modules your department can license and run internally, or a complete prepackaged recruit curriculum built once and refined over fourteen years, licensed for your use rather than built from scratch.

• Individual online CE modules (Fire Behavior, ROAM, Command Fundamentals, and more)
• Full prepackaged recruit academy curriculum, licensed for department use
• Optional add-on: a live Q&A or virtual session to accompany any package

The talk on retirement, grief, and mental health in the fire service that only a chief who's lived it can give. Direct, unflinching, and built to keep the next generation from carrying it alone — for department trainings, peer support programs, and state or regional conferences.

• Standalone keynote, 45–75 minutes
• Pairs well with a same-visit training day for departments booking both
• Local/association honorarium rates available for smaller conferences

For departments in the middle of a long-term training overhaul or a new facility build, a defined monthly retainer keeps 286 Training engaged as an ongoing advisor rather than a one-time visitor.

• Scoped to a defined number of hours or deliverables per month
• Ideal alongside a facility design or full curriculum project