Decide
Recognize observable conditions and make a decision based on the problem in front of you.
About ComTac Training
Why ComTac Exists.
Fire officers are asked to make consequential decisions, yet opportunities to repeatedly practice those decisions can be limited. ComTac was developed to help close that gap.
Company Bio
ComTac Training
ComTac Training is a fire-service training company focused on immersive, interactive fireground decision-making and officer development.
The system was developed around a simple problem: firefighters and officers can spend hundreds of hours learning strategy, tactics, incident command, building construction, fire behavior, and communications, yet have comparatively few opportunities to practice putting all of those disciplines together while actually managing an incident.
ComTac helps bridge that gap through realistic command simulations, deliberate repetition, evaluation, and an extensive Virtual Training Officer library.
Rather than simply asking, “What do you know?”, ComTac asks a more important operational question: “What will you do?”
The goal is not to replace classroom instruction, live-fire training, or operational experience. It is to give fire-service professionals another tool to improve recognition, decision-making, communication, leadership, and command performance before those skills are required on a real emergency.
Decide. Communicate. Lead.
Recognize the problem. Make the decision. Communicate the plan. Continue evaluating as conditions change.
Communicate
Clearly transmit the plan, assignments, priorities, and changes.
Lead
Continue evaluating the incident, supporting your people, and providing direction.
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Owner & Developer Bio
Scott A. Goodwin
Owner & Developer, ComTac Training · Fire Chief
Scott Goodwin has spent more than 30 years in the fire service, with extensive experience in fire-service leadership and incident command. Throughout his career, he has seen a recurring challenge in officer development: firefighters receive substantial education in strategy, tactics, fire behavior, building construction, communications, and incident command, but opportunities to repeatedly practice putting those skills together are much harder to create.
That experience became the foundation for ComTac Training.
Scott developed ComTac around the belief that better fireground decision-making comes from deliberate repetition—giving officers opportunities to size up incidents, identify problems, establish strategy, make assignments, communicate clearly, evaluate changing conditions, and adjust their decisions when the evidence changes.
His objective is straightforward: give firefighters more opportunities to make difficult decisions in training before they are required to make them when someone’s life depends on it.
ComTac is not designed to replace experience.
It is designed to help officers become better prepared for experience before it arrives.