FRSC 1020
BASIC FIREFIGHTER – EMERGENCY SERVICES FUNDAMENTALS (30-30-3)
Prerequisite: Program admission
This course provides the student with information on the applicable laws,
policies, and standards that the Firefighter I course is designed, and how
the course will be administered. This course will provide the student basic
knowledge of where and how the fire service originated from the colonial
periods to present day firefighting operations. The student will learn
basic roles and responsibilities of a firefighter, how firefighters have
to abide by and work from standard operating procedures and guidelines,
and how the chain of command works and their position within it. The
student will be provided the knowledge on how to communicate within the
fire service; whether it with the fire station or on the fire ground.
This course provides the emergency responder with basic principles and
functions of the Incident Command System. The course will provide the
necessary knowledge and skills to operate within the ICS and their role
within the ICS at the fire station, at a non-emergency scene, and at
emergency scenes. It will provide also provide the emergency responder
with knowledge on how to perform basic skills at emergency scenes that
deal with infection control, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, basic first
aid measures, and using an AED. Finally, it will provide the emergency
responder skills and knowledge on how to recognize the presence of and
the potential for a hazardous materials release, and how and who personnel
should call. Upon completion of this course the student emergency
responder candidate/recruit will have the basic skills and knowledge to
be able to obtain a certificate of completion or become certified through
the appropriate governing agency for the following: 1. Infection Control
2. CPR 3. First Aid 4. ICS-100 5. IS-700 6. NPQ - Hazardous Materials for
First Responders Awareness Level This course meets the requirements NFPA
1001 Standard for Fire Fighter Professional Qualifications and all other
state, local, and provincial occupational health and safety regulatory
requirements.
FRSC 1030
BASIC FIREFIGHTER – MODULE I (45-60-5)
Prerequisite: Program admission
This course provides the firefighter candidate/recruit with basic
knowledge and skills to perform various fire ground operations as a
firefighter on emergency scenes. The candidate/recruit will learn about
safety during all phases of a firefighters career, the personal
protective equipment that is required for training and every emergency
response, and how to properly don it for use and doff it after use. The
candidate/recruit will learn about the dynamics of fire through fire
behavior and how to extinguish the different phases of fires with
either portable fire extinguishers or through fire suppression attacks
and techniques. The candidate/recruit will also learn the three
tactical priorities of Life Safety, Incident Stabilization, and
Property Conservation that have to be achieved on every fireground.
Basic knowledge and skills will be provided to the candidate/recruit
so they can achieve the tactical priorities through various fireground
operations such as: response & size-up, forcible entry, ladders,
search & rescue, ventilation, water supply, fire hose, fire nozzles,
fire streams, salvage, and overhaul. Upon completion of this course the
student emergency responder candidate/recruit will have the basic skills
and knowledge to be able to obtain a certificate of completion or become
certified through the appropriate governing agency for the following: 1.
Module I This course meets the requirements NFPA 1001 Standard for Fire
Fighter Professional Qualifications and all other state, local, and
provincial occupational health and safety regulatory requirements.
FRSC 1040
BASIC FIREFIGHTER – MODULE II (15-60-3)
Prerequisites: Program Admission
This course builds from the skills and knowledge in Module I and provides
the knowledge and skills to support the fireground techniques learned in
the previous courses. The firefighter will learn various uses of ropes &
knots and how to hoist firefighting tools and equipment. The firefighter
will also gain the knowledge and skills of building construction principles
that will be used throughout their firefighting career to identify building
conditions such as: fire spread and travel, how and where to ventilate,
indications of potential building collapse, etc. The firefighter will learn
survival techniques that will be used throughout their career to help keep
themselves safe and how to rescue themselves or another firefighter.
Firefighter rehabilitation will be discussed during this course, so that
the firefighter will know how and when to properly rehab themselves before,
during, after an emergency response. Knowledge of fire suppression systems
will be discussed, so that the firefighter will have a basic understanding
of the components of a fire detection, protection, and suppression system.
Basic cause determination will be discussed so that firefighters will be
aware of observations during various phases of fireground operations.
Finally to complete the Firefighter I program the firefighter will
participate in the following live fire scenarios in order to complete the
objectives of the program. 1. Exterior Class A Fire 2. Interior Structure
Attack above Grade Level 3. Interior Structure Attack Below Grade Level 4.
Vehicle Fire 5. Dumpster Fire Upon completion of this course the student
emergency responder candidate/recruit will have the basic skills and
knowledge to be able to obtain a certificate of completion or become
certified through the appropriate governing agency for the following: 1.
NPQ Fire Fighter I This course meets the requirements NFPA 1001 Standard
for Fire Fighter Professional Qualifications and all other state, local,
and provincial occupational health and safety regulatory requirements.
FRSC 1141
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS OPERATIONS (45-30-4)
Prerequisites: Program Admission
This course provides emergency responder personnel with the information
to respond safely, limit possible exposure to all personnel, and to provide
information to the proper authorities as being a primary goal while reacting
in the defensive mode of operation. The first responder operations level
responsibilities are recognition and identification of a hazardous material
scene, the gathering of information, the notification of the proper
authorities, the isolation of the area by setting perimeters/zones,
possible evacuation, protection by initiating the incident management
system, emergency decontamination, and performing defensive actions only.
Even though the first responder is a member of an emergency response service,
they are not trained in specialized protective clothing or specialized
control equipment. Thus, the first responder is not a member of a hazardous
materials response team. This course meets the requirements of NFPA 472 –
Professional Competence of First Responders to HazMat Incidents at the
Operations Level. This course also meets the requirements of OSHA 29 CFR
1910.120, EPA, USDOT, and all other appropriate state, local and provincial
occupational health and safety regulatory requirements. Also required as
prerequisite: NPQ FF I and NPQ Hazardous Materials Awareness Level.