2025 Fire Prevention Institute

Where Sustainability and Safety Meet

October 13-17, 2025 - Campbell’s Resort ~ Lake Chelan

Registration for the 2025 Fire Prevention Institute is Now Open

Draft Schedule and Descriptions Coming Soon

NEW CONFERENCE APP (Look for an email to sign-up)

The Washington State Association of Fire Marshals, along with the State Fire Marshal’s Office, the Washington Public Fire Educators, and the IAAI - Washington Chapter, is pleased to announce the dates for the 2025 Fire Prevention Institute (FPI). The FPI is being held at Campbell’s Resort at Lake Chelan, and will begin at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, October 13, 2025, and will conclude before noon on Friday, October 17, 2025. The Fire Prevention Institute focuses on important prevention and strategy issues facing fire officials and will include essential training hours needed for code recertification.

Full Registration includes: All Sessions, Breakfast and Lunch (Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday) and Thursday Dinner 

One Day Registration includes: All Sessions, Breakfast and Lunch Only (Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday)

The Fire Prevention Institute focuses on important prevention and strategy issues facing fire officials, and provides networking opportunities related to education, engineering, and enforcement efforts to help improve safety in our communities, and help minimize loss due to the devastating effects of fire.  The Institute also includes essential training hours needed for code recertification of local code enforcement officials, public educators and fire investigators.

The topics for the FPI are based on the survey returns from the 2025 FPI. These surveys are very vital to us as we continue to meet your needs for great educational programs.

Topics this year will include: data and fire inspections, energy storage systems, member wellness, fireworks, CRR, and fire sprinklers to name a few.

Keynote Speaker:

We would like to announce our keynote speaker Dr. De Hicks.

Mindset Matters

How to Become a Transformative Leader, Manager, Supervisor, or Influencer.

Mindset matters.

A surprisingly high percentage of our personal and organizational change efforts fail because we apply quick fixes without addressing the upstream causes. This fast paced, interactive, one-day training will introduce you to a combination of mental models and disciplines that together enable you to build stronger relationships, foster more robust trust, increase collaboration, and achieve better results. You will learn how to change how you think and move from a transactional to a transformational mindset.

Your mindset shapes your place in relationships, families, teams, and organizations. Your mindset shapes your behaviors, perspectives, and relationships. Mindset shapes everything.

Learn how you naturally lean toward either a “We and Mission” mindset, focusing on the adventure with others, or toward a “Me and Mine” mindset, focusing on your own security and comfort. Discover how the “Me and Mine” mindset eventually erodes your work and relationships. Then learn how the “We and Mission” mindset results in profound and transformative results for your organization, team, and relationships.

In this class you will learn how to change your mindset. This one-day training will show you how to move from blaming others to building accountability disengagement to engagement inaction to innovation craving comfort and security to creating real, lasting, and worthy outcomes feeling threatened by change to leaning into it and much more!

DR. DE HICKS

Dr. De Hicks is the Founder and President of the RMC Group of Companies which includes SCGI, a research firm dedicated to improving performance of high-impact, mission-oriented organizations and the HILT Academy, a virtual Leadership Development School. SCGI’s research, led by Dr. Hicks, has resulted in significant gains in impact and productivity for newly minted and experienced leaders. His research has resulted in breakthroughs in the science of habit formation, effective decision-making, cross-functional, and interdisciplinary communication, conflict management, change management as well as ground breaking insights into stress management. Dr. Hicks has 40 years of experience in researching, teaching, complex problem solving, conflict resolution, negotiation, mentoring and coaching and strategic change management. Dr. Hicks is a featured speaker at conferences across the United States and works effectively with small and large groups. His firm’s clients have included the Department of Defense’s Command University and Trident Refit Facility, Multiple Police and Fire Departments, 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Centers, Healthcare consortiums, Universities, Software Development firms, Investment Funds, Broadcast and Print Journalism Enterprises, and International Trade Consortiums.

Along the way, you will also learn how to lead others to do the same.

We are looking forward to seeing everyone and are very excited to have some of the best speaker in country coming to Lake Chelan to provide us we quality topics regarding fire prevention, education, and investigations.

Continue to make things happen!

Lodging is Now Open

Room rates will be based on the government per diem rate in effect October 1, 2025. The rate is currently $110.00 – single occupancy/$127.00 double occupancy, plus tax – please be advised the rate may adjust up or down, on or before October 1, 2025.

In order to receive this special rate, reservations must be made by September 15, 2025. Once this date has passed, or the room block has been filled, you will need to find alternate lodging. Reservations should be made directly with the hotel by calling (800) 553-8225.

Please be sure to provide group block name "Washington State Assoc. Fire Marshal's" and group block code #631329.

Campbell’s Resort
104 W. Woodin Ave.
Chelan, WA 98166
(800) 553-8225

Campbell’s policy requires cancellations to be made 7 days prior to your arrival. If your reservation was made more than 6 months prior to the event, cancellation policy requires cancellations to be made 30 days prior to your scheduled arrival. Failure to notify Campbell’s Resort within the specified time of cancellation will result in forfeiture of the deposit or a charge to the credit card.

Since there has been considerable expenses already expended all cancelations are subject to the cancelation policy that is stated in the registration.

Here is the policy:

All cancelations must be submitted in writing and emailed to WSAFM at wsafm@wsafm.com

REFUND INFORMATION
100% if canceled by 8/1/2025
75% if canceled by 9/1/2025
50% if canceled by 10/1/2025
No refunds after 10/1/2025

If you have specific questions, please contact Tom Maloney at (360) 363-8506 or tmaloney@mfdrfa.org or Ellen Tombleson at (360) 596-3902 or ellen.tombleson@wsp.wa.gov

WSAFM will issue ICC Continuing Education Credits!!

Keynote Sponsor To Be Announced

Keynote Speaker

We would like to announce our keynote speaker Dr. De Hicks.

Mindset Matters

How to Become a Transformative Leader, Manager, Supervisor, or Influencer.

Mindset matters.

A surprisingly high percentage of our personal and organizational change efforts fail because we apply quick fixes without addressing the upstream causes. This fast paced, interactive, one-day training will introduce you to a combination of mental models and disciplines that together enable you to build stronger relationships, foster more robust trust, increase collaboration, and achieve better results. You will learn how to change how you think and move from a transactional to a transformational mindset.

Your mindset shapes your place in relationships, families, teams, and organizations. Your mindset shapes your behaviors, perspectives, and relationships. Mindset shapes everything.

Learn how you naturally lean toward either a “We and Mission” mindset, focusing on the adventure with others, or toward a “Me and Mine” mindset, focusing on your own security and comfort. Discover how the “Me and Mine” mindset eventually erodes your work and relationships. Then learn how the “We and Mission” mindset results in profound and transformative results for your organization, team, and relationships.

In this class you will learn how to change your mindset. This one-day training will show you how to move from blaming others to building accountability disengagement to engagement inaction to innovation craving comfort and security to creating real, lasting, and worthy outcomes feeling threatened by change to leaning into it and much more!

DR. DE HICKS

Dr. De Hicks is the Founder and President of the RMC Group of Companies which includes SCGI, a research firm dedicated to improving performance of high-impact, mission-oriented organizations and the HILT Academy, a virtual Leadership Development School. SCGI’s research, led by Dr. Hicks, has resulted in significant gains in impact and productivity for newly minted and experienced leaders. His research has resulted in breakthroughs in the science of habit formation, effective decision-making, cross-functional, and interdisciplinary communication, conflict management, change management as well as ground breaking insights into stress management. Dr. Hicks has 40 years of experience in researching, teaching, complex problem solving, conflict resolution, negotiation, mentoring and coaching and strategic change management. Dr. Hicks is a featured speaker at conferences across the United States and works effectively with small and large groups. His firm’s clients have included the Department of Defense’s Command University and Trident Refit Facility, Multiple Police and Fire Departments, 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Centers, Healthcare consortiums, Universities, Software Development firms, Investment Funds, Broadcast and Print Journalism Enterprises, and International Trade Consortiums.

Along the way, you will also learn how to lead others to do the same.