Battalion Chief Ron Moore is the Training Officer of the McKinney (TX) Fire Department. He is responsible for development, delivery and evaluation of continuing education fire and rescue training programs for the 122-member fire department. McKinney FD protects a growing city of 110,000+ population situated north of the city of Dallas.

His 34 years of fire service experience have allowed him the opportunity to conduct thousands of advanced automobile rescue seminars and bus rescue training programs nationwide and throughout Canada. His presentations have taken him as far as Sweden, England, Germany, and The Netherlands. He is a most sought-after and highly recognized expert in his field.

Ron is the author of over 100 published articles in the Universityof Extrication series, featured each month in Firehouse magazine and is the moderator of the University of Extrication interactive section of the firehouse.com website. He is also the author of the most definitive training manual in this field, Vehicle Rescue and Extrication, 2nd edition, a text published by Mosby Co.

This one-day program is organized into a series of training 'modules'.

Airbag Update, looks at all the various airbag systems in vehicles today and explains important new designs such as airbags that inflate twice as well as stored gas inflators that can fail explosively when cut through at a crash scene.

Emergency Procedures for Hybrid Vehicles. Participants learn about the new gasoline electric hybrid vehicles that are out there and what to do with them at an emergency scene.

Real-World Rescue. It is a PowerPoint slide program featuring unusual vehicle crashes; car broke in two, SUV up the guy wires of a power pole, car into a swimming pool, etc. Discussion among participants focuses on how to deal with similar incidents if they were to occur in your district.

Safe Parking. This presentation bring the pages of Firehouse magazine to life as Ron Moore looks at the alarming trend of firefighters being struck and killed while working in or near moving traffic.