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Vision & Mission

The mission of the Oregon Fire Instructors Association is to facilitate and support cooperative and progressive Fire Service Training and Education.

OFIA Mission:


The mission shall be accomplished by:

  • Promoting instructor growth and development.
  • Encouraging and supporting fire service training and education in Oregon through an organization governed by representatives from each regional training organization in the state.
  • Providing interaction and communications between regional training associations,assisting in organizing new regional training associations, providing an instructor training program pool, providing financial support for schools when needed and approved, receiving and disbursing training grants, and provide a single voice representative of all OFIA members that addresses local, state, and national issues pertaining to fire service training.
  • Encouraging and supporting fire service training that is oriented toward, and designed to; reduce the number of firefighter disabling injuries and line of duty deaths in Oregon.