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NFPA President Jim Shannon speaks at a press conference in Detroit and talks about NFPA's role in providing electric vehicle safety training to first responders.
As part of this week's Electric Vehicle Safety Training in Detroit, General Motors officially handed over the training to NFPA.
Chevrolet and OnStar, in a joint effort with The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), have conducted a nationwide training tour for first responders preparing to deal with emergency situations involving electric vehicles, like the Chevrolet Volt. To date, more than 1,600 fire and emergency service leaders and trainers have participated in this program.
Along with Detroit, the tour made stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Washington D.C. and New York City. Going forward, NFPA will make the same training available online in addition to the full array of electric vehicle safety training programs under development at NFPA. The GM materials and training is expected to be available in March. NFPA's other training programs for electric vehicle safety will launch in April. Gay Kent, GM director of Vehicle Safety and Crashworthiness commended the collaboration with NFPA saying that it has been a terrific partnership.
NFPA President Jim Shannon spoke of the importance of this training to the first responder community. "With more and more electric vehicles hitting the road, we are proud to be a part of an initiative to make sure that firefighters and other first responders have all the information they need to handle emergency situations involving these new types of vehicles."
NFPA, GM executives and local fire chiefs pose in front of a Chevy Volt used in the training sessions.
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