FIRE 240 - Rescue Systems Awareness

Credits: 3
Variable Credit Course: No

Lecture Hours: 22
Lab Hours: 22
Worksite/Clinical Hours: 0
Other Hours (LIA/Internships): 0

Course Description: Apply search and rescue skills, approach rescue situations safely, and understand the organizational concerns at a structural collapse incident. Provides skill sets that meet or exceed NFPA 1670 at the awareness level for various rescue situations.

Prerequisite: None.
Meets FQE Requirement: No
Integrative Experience Requirement: No

Student Learning Outcomes

Perform reconnaissance and size up a situation.
Identify hazards.
Establish an incident management system.
Organize a rescue scene.
Remove victims.
Understand structural collapse scenarios.
Perform various rescue operations in simulations.

Course Contents

Rescue scene management.
Safety.
Search.
Basic ropes & knots.
Rope rescue.
Structural collapse scenario.
Confined space rescue.
Trench rescue.
Water rescue.
Simulations.

Instructional Units: 3.5