News Archives
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2009
Due to scheduling conflicts the January meeting for the Rules Committee has be re-scheduled from January 7 to
January 6. The meeting will be at the GPSTC in room 104 at 10:00 am.
Please make note of this date change and we hope to see you on the 6th.
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Fire Chiefs and Training Officers: You are now able to print Pro Board applications for individuals from your
department account. Log in for more details.
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
2010 Firefighter and Airport Firefighter Taskbooks are now up. Just look in the left column on the page under
Quick Links.
Fire Chiefs and Training Officers: If you would like a copy of the cover pages of the Taskbooks in an
editable format, just log on to your department account and you should see the links.
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Fire Chiefs and Training Officers: If anyone was having problems with the test dates on the Test Roster Lookup under
your department account then those problems should be fixed now.
Friday, October 30th, 2009
NOTICE: Our website will be unavailabe for portions of the day on Sunday, November 1st, 2009.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Thanks to Fire Chief Freddy Howell of NSB Kings Bay, we are pleased to provide this editable "Change Your Clock" flyer.
It is available for use by any individual, department, or agency wanting to remind people of the upcoming time change.
It is available by clicking here.
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Chiefs and Training Officers: If you have a departmental account, you can now log in and view Test Results Rosters online. All you have to do
is log in using your departmental account and then click on the 'Test Results Lookup' link. Then pick a test type, test date and click submit.
If any of your firefighters that are on your current roster took that test type on that test date, they will show up on the results page. If
you have any additional requests for this page, just let us know.
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
We have made a few changes to our Forms menu in the Quick Links section. You will notice that there are now four (4) main sections after you click on the Forms link.
At the top, we have Fire Department Related Forms, which includes Fire Deparment and Agency Information Update forms, Change of Status forms (for use with registering new firefighters into our database or adding/removing firefighters from your roster if you do not have an online department account with us), Fire Department Compliance forms, etc.
We have a link to our State Certification section of forms, which includes Compliance Packages for FF, ARFF, INV, ISP, and FSE. Also included in this section are Lateral Transfer/Short forms, which are primarily used to transfer State Certifications when a firefighter transfers from one department to another.
We have a new Forms section called Test Related Forms. This is where all of our Test Prerequisite forms are now located. We now have equipment lists, exam prep guides, score forms, additional skill sheets, and additional taskbooks for various test levels in this new section!
The fourth section is for the GFSTC approved Physical Agility Test forms.
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
A couple of new things are happening here at GFSTC as far as distribution of grades are concerned.
The most exciting news is that we will be emailing test grades to individuals within one (1) business
day of being downloaded into our system! However, you must register your email address with us to receive
your test grades.
To register an email address with us, you must:
1) Contact your department(Chief/Training Officer) and find out your GFSTC ID if you don't already know it.
2) Go to http://www.gfstconline.org and click the login link near the top left of the page.
3) Your GFSTC ID will be your username. Your initial password will be the last four (4) digits of
your SSN, unless you have logged in before and already changed your password. If this is your first
login attempt, you will be required to change your password.
4) Once logged in, click on the 'View/Update Your Information' link near the middle of the screen and
input the email address that you would like your scores emailed to after they are downloaded into our system.
Also, walk-ons to test events will now have the option of selecting their department/agency and name off
of a drop-down menu. All walk-ons will receive an email confirming your sign up for the event. If you use
the drop-down menus for department/agency and name, then you will receive your GFSTC ID which you can use
to check your test results once they are downloaded into our system.
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Following research, GFSTC has decided not to display numeric test scores. GFSTC exams are "high stakes" examinations,
designed specifically to identify minimum competency. In this sense, they are fundamentally different from other
tests you may have taken, such as the SAT or GRE, which are designed to rank candidates along a continuum.
Certification examinations are about scoring relative to a defined standard, not about scoring well relative
to other candidates. Upon completion of a test, candidates will now receive a “Pass” or “Fail” instead of a
numeric score. Test feedback showing areas of candidate proficiency will be distributed as customary and upon
request.
Monday, March 9th, 2009
An Online Change of Status form is finally available! Just log in to your department account and click on the
"Change of Status Menu" link. From here you can input a new COS form, or you can view any previous online COS
forms that have been submitted by your department. If you have individuals that are new to the fire service
and are not currently in our system, then you still must fill out a paper COS form for them. If you do not
have a department account yet, you can start by downloading and printing the
Website Registration Form. It must be signed by an authorized
individual (such as Chief or T.O.) at your department. Enjoy, and if you have any questions, please call Chad
Griffith at 478-993-4666 or email him: cgriffith at gpstc.state.ga.us (substitute the @ symbol for at).
Thursday, February 4th, 2009
2008 Training Hours and Core Competency dates are now in our system and live online! Individuals and departments,
when you login you will now see 2008 information instead of 2007 information. We have not entered anyone's hours
who did not meet the January 31st deadline yet; we plan on beginning to enter them in next week. Thanks go out to
all departments who have used our new online system to input their training hours and core competency dates!
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2009
165th Airlift Wing Fire Department has 2 openings for Airport Firefighters. For more details, click
here.
Friday, January 30th, 2009
2008 End of Year Reports are due by 5pm on Monday, February 2nd, 2009. At 5pm on Monday, the
2008 End of Year Report link under departmental accounts will disappear. If you have not completed your End of Year
report by this time, you will need to submit a letter to GFSTC stating the reason why and asking for an extension.
Thanks to all who have submitted their reports so far this year! Click here to login to
your department account and finish your report.
Monday, January 26th, 2009
We have totalled and finalized the numbers from the "Your Opinion Counts" Site Visit survey! We ended up receiving responses
from 69 total individuals. We've given the results as percentages, and where an individual did not give an answer to a
question there is an "N/A" percentage group. Click here to see the results of the
survey.
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
On January 14th, 2009, the Honorable Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, Casey Cagle, appointed Captain James "Skip"
Heflin as a member of the Georgia Firefighter Standards and Training Council. Captain Heflin will be replacing
Chief Craig Tulley. You may view the changes at our other website:
gfstc.georgia.gov. Click on 'Contact Information' and then 'Georgia
Firefighter Standards and Training Council'.
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Our 2009 Firefighter Core Compentency Taskbooks are now available! The staff of GFSTC has been directed by
the Council to cease conducting core competency reviews during
departmental site visits. This directive, however, does not relieve State Certified individuals from the responsibility and requirement of performing core compentencies as a condition of annual recertification. Click here for the 2009 FF Core Compentency Taskbook! (You can
right-click the link and choose 'Save As..' to save the Taskbook to your computer/disk.)
Friday, November 7th, 2008
NEW SITE SURVEY HERE
We would like your opinion on GFSTC conducting department Site Visits. Please read the overview on this survey,
familiarize yourself with our specific Site Visit procedures, and then complete our survey. Thank you in advance
for your input! (You must login and click on the "Take Site Visit Survey" link to begin.)
Login Here!
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Council-approved Firefighter II Program is now here on our website. It is separated into
14 sections for your downloading ease.
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Safety, Leadership and Training presents the Gwinnett
County Leadership and Safety Conference in Norcross, Georgia on January
23-25, 2009. Click here for registration details and more information.
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
2007 Hours posted on the website
We have just finished posting the reported 2007 hours to the website. Any fire departments that have not reported
training hours and core competency dates for their State Certified firefighters are urged to get in touch with us
by phone (478-993-4525) or by email (gfstc@gpstc.state.ga.us). Also, if you notice any discrepencies regarding
2007 hours please notify us. Training hours and core competency dates for 2006 should be available
again soon as well.
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
GFSTC launches Test Event Calendar
After a few months of diligent work within our agency, we are proud to announce that our GFSTC Test Event Calendar is now available for use by GFSTC evaluators.
GFSTC evaluators that work through this agency will now be able to visit our site and browse though our online Test Event Calendar to find test events and sign up for test events.
Individuals desiring to challenge exams are now able to browse the Calendar to view scheduled test events as well as registering as a “walk-on” candidate.
A FEW NOTES ABOUT THE CALENDAR:
To change the view from daily to weekly to monthly, just click the tabs near the top of the page labeled “Day”, “Week”, and “Month”.
To view an event in more detail just click on the title of the event. When you view more details about an event you will also see the links that you can click to sign up as an evaluator or as a walk-on!
PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SIGN UP AS AN EVALUATOR IF YOU ARE NOT REGISTERED AS AN EVALUATOR WITH US.
Click here to access the calendar:
Test Event Calendar
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
GFSTC launches Course Credit Lookup
At the request of many individuals and fire departments in Georgia, we now have developed a part of our website which
allows you to access GFSTC accepted courses for state recertification. You must be logged in to access this part of
the website and you must also accept the End User Agreement that is displayed before you access the Lookup system. After
you login to the Certification Lookup, just click the Search link under Course Credit Lookup on the left-hand list.
Login to access Course Credit Lookup.
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
GFSTC launches the Firefighter Certification Lookup
Formerly known as the GFSTC Data Access, the Firefighter Certification Lookup enables individuals to access their certification, testing, and employment history. You can also view and edit personal information, such as address, phone and email.
Fire Chiefs can view certification and test history for all individuals listed on their department, as well as station listings for their department.
Login to the Firefighter Certification Lookup.
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