FRSC 1030 Basic Firefighter — Module I (3-4-5)
This course provides students with the basic knowledge and skills to perform various fireground operations as firefighters on emergency scenes. Students will learn about safety during all phases of firefighters' careers, the personal protective equipment that is required for training and every emergency response, how to properly don the equipment for use, and how to doff it after use. Students 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. Students will also learn the three tactical priorities of life safety, incident stabilization, and property conservation that have to be achieved on every fireground. Students will obtain the basic knowledge and skills needed to achieve the tactical priorities through various fireground operations such as response and size-up, forcible entry, ladders, search and rescue, ventilation, water supplies, fire hoses, fire nozzles, fire streams, salvage, and overhaul. Upon completion of this course, students will have the basic skills and knowledge to become certified through the appropriate governing agency for Module I. This course meets the requirements of NFPA 1001—Standard for Firefighter Professional Qualifications and all other state and local occupational health and safety regulatory requirements. Students must pay a $100 supply fee when registering for this course.
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